THE SPREADING DROUGHT.
The wetter grows the weather, why the dryer grows the land The drought is spreading like a leak out far on every hand. Dry States are getting dryer, the wet ones grow less humid — It’s “high and dry” is living, for the moisture all is doomed. It’s Southern States, and Western, East, North, and Central, too, The districts, territories, and the island s|M>ts a few They are all a-hieing, drying, one or two or three a day— It’s the pro-hi and the so dr>* is this anti wetness wav. They won’t let you make it, keep it, sell it, give it to a friend, Can’t store it, ship it, imitate it —no one will defend Old Demon Rum these sober times, and few will drop a tear For this departed spirit, or put flowers on his bier. —D. G. Bickers, in “Macon) (('.a.) Telegraph.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 285, 18 March 1919, Page 3
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147THE SPREADING DROUGHT. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 285, 18 March 1919, Page 3
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