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White Ribbon, Volume 14, Issue 150, 15 November 1907, Page 5

Prohibition in Georgia. Mrs Armour. State W.C.T.r. President, is said to have done more than any other person in the campaign which has added Georgia to the list of prohibition States (Maine. North Dakota, and Kansas). Mrs. Armour addressed both Senate and House Temperance Committees. The Prohibition Bill was carried by IJ9 to .*l9. The Governor of the State Governor Hoke Smith—gladly signed the measure, although it meant a blow at his private income, by closing the bar of the great Piedmont Hotel, in Atlanta, in which he is a large shareholder. On the first day of 1908 Georgia becomes a Prohibition State. The State Government has notified all the breweries and distilleries that the manufacture of intoxicants will be a punishable offence after that date. The State expects to flourish as Kansas has done. Though it will lose over £200.000 a year revenue, it expects to have fewer prison and workhouse expenses.