DOES LOCAL OPTION BENEFIT A NATION?

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43070, 19 March 1907, Page 1

DOES LOCAL OPTION BENEFIT A NATION?

THE GLORY OE THE TRUE AMER ICA • .. -v. •; •_ v - *. ’ ’ (Continued from last issue.) lit Mississipip the* legal sale - of liquor is--<?onfined almost entirely to the Gulf Coast to wns. . Away from the thin strips in the Western and' Southern ' - borders of the State, Local 3|| Option has given, as Mr Gates puts it, “as nearly absolute 3C Prohibition as can be ' found ( anywhere on the globe.” It is a suggestive fact indeed that Local Option is doing just about as much in Mississippi C as Prohibtion is doing in Kansas 8 Therefore, let none of us.imagine 3 that simply because there are at this moment only three States in the Union under State Pro- >_ hibition, that therefore the scope and action of • Prohibition are restricted. Mississippi and Kansas are great agricultural || States for the most part, and there are many points of similarity between them. They are nearly equal in population, • contain a very small foreign C element, and have a comparatively small urban population , . It is remarkable that Mississsppi unquestionably consumes less- C liquor per head than’ any other, State in the Union. And - its f fine people, a splendid and; , stalwart race of chivalric : = Southerners, of the real English stock like the Virginians, ' have achiven their great, victory over C 3 the drink demon simply by favouring and adopting the ; method of dealing with the'V deadly traffic known as Local; y Option.—W.D.