Temperance Column.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

Temperance Column.

[The matter for this Column is snppifed by a representative of the local Temperflnte bodies, who alone is responsible for the opinions expressed in it.] HOW THE CAUSE STANDS IN THE UNITED STATES. Mississippi.— The Wine and Spin* Go7ette has the following "tale of woe" about the vanishing saloon. It says: — "Tbe stringent law and Prohibition aro rapidly driving the saloon from Mississippi. A saloon will soon be a rarity if chey decrease at the present rate. During 1894 only 13 counties sold whisky legally. The revenue tax was 8107,600, a deoreaße of $22,800 as against 1893, and in a number of counties there was a reduction of nearly 60 per cent." Colorado.— The Legislature has had a severe fight over the Local Option Bill. The House Committee reported in favour of the Bill, and it was adopted after * hard struggle. A law compelling incorporated clubs to have licenses passed the Senate. Idaho.— A Bill to reduce the liquor licenses in towns of over 100 inhabitants from *500 to $300 was defeated in the Senate, the Lieut-Governor giving his casting vote* against it. Maine.— The liquor trade made a desthe prohibitory constitutional amendment to perato effort to obtain a re-submission of a vote of the people, but met with an overwhelming defeat. The House killed the Bill outright, only 13 voting in favour to 113 against. New Hampshire.— The liquor interest introduced a " Local Option License Bill, giving the people the " option " to" fine " liquor-dealers in advance J260 a year, and thus legalise the sale by such fine. It is practically a license law to take the place of the Prohibition law now in force. The House, after a long disoussion, indefinitely posponed the BUI by a vote of 202 to 82-a great victory for Prohibition. Massachusetts.— The Senate rejected a Bill exempting first-olass hotels with not less than SO rooms from the School-house Limitation law in the matter of the issuance of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Kansas.— The "Re-Bubmissionists" made a strong effort to seoure a convention to "revise" the state constitution so that tiey might submit the prohibitory amendment to the people. The Bill passed the Senate by a close vote, but was defeated in the House. Indiana.— A Bill known as the "Nicholson Bill " was introduced into the House, containing a local-option feature and many severe restrictions on the liquor traffic. The saloon must occupy only one room, and have no other kind of business with it, and allpersonsare absolutely excluded on all days and hours when sales are prohibited. If persons are permitted to go in or out, it is prim&fciea evidence of guilt. The saloon must be on the ground-floor fronting the street, with no blinds or screens or obstructions to hide the view during the hours when Bales are prohibited. No minor allowed to loiter on the premises. The Bill has other restrictive provisions, and was fought most desperately by the liquor interest. It passed the House by a vote of 76 to 20, and the Senate br 38 to 9.