ley of Nebraska anil souingaie wi of thU article the manu- ratification its standard-bearers. They in- ISSUE as sale or transportation of POLITICAL Nation surprised facture, polled about 13,000 votes. liquors within, the Impor- toxicating YEARS The feature of the Prohibition cam- tation thereof Into, or the exportation FOR FIFTY BY SUDDEN END OF a tour of the coun- and paign of 1900 was thereof from the of try by the candidates and a corps all territory subject to the jurisdiction PERSISTED FIGHT ON SALOON speakers by special train. In 1912 thereof for beverage purposes is here- LIKE IN WHAT SEEMED the Prohibitiou convention renom- by prohibited. HOPELESS BATTLE. inated the candidates of 1908. Amendment Ratified Section 2—The congress and the Sheppard Results in Later Years. have concurrent pow- severul states Prominent in Little More Than Year Women Have Been candidates since 1884 and their to this article by appropri- The er enforce W. C. T. U.— Movement Through are as follows: After Submission. ate legislation. vote Frances Willard Won World- Clinton B. Fislc, New Jersey, UNIVERSAL NEWS Section 3—This article shall be in- 1888, FIVE INTERSTATE-ORPHEUM ACTS and it shall have been Wide Fame. and J. A. Brooks, Missouri, 249,945 War Is Given Credit for Hastening operative unless New Show Every Monday and Thursday. Daily Matinee as an amendment to the Con- votes. of Prohibition—Cam- ratified Adoption a John California, and at 2:30. at 7:30 and 9:00. stitution the legislatures of the sev- Nation-wide prohibition has been 1892, Bidwell, Nights on for by paign Carried B. Texas, 270,710 votes. eral states as provided in the Consti- political issue in the United States for J. Cranfill, Years. , , tution within seven years from the the last fifty years because of the 1896, , Illinois, 130,753 date of the submission hereof to the activities of the Prohibition party. and The country has hardly awakened votes. states by tbe congress.* Other organizations, including the to the realization of the fact that John G. Woolley, Illinois, and yet CHAMP CLABK, Anti-Saloon league, the Women’s 1900, It has voted itself dry. The ratifica- oth- H. B. Metcalf, Rhode Island, 209,469 LOYALTY Speaker of the House of Representa- Christian Temperance union and tion of the Sheppard amendment to votes, tives. ers, which passed out of existence FIRST TO YOUR COUNTRY the federal Constitution, prohibiting 1904, S. C. Swallow, Pennsylvania, THOMAS R. MARSHALL, after cnreers extending over various the manufacture or sale of intoxicat- and George B. Carroll, Texas, 258,305 THEN TO YOUR HOME Vice President of the United States periods of time, have fought for state came so suddenly, after ing liquors, and President of the Senate. and national prohibition, but the Pro- votes. more than half a century of battle, 1908, Eugene W. Ohafin, Illinois, and I certify that this joint resolution hibition party has continued in exist- TO CHEER when the cause of the Prohibitionists Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 253,231 votes. originated in the senate. ence for a longer period of time than many times seemed almost hopeless, and 1912, Eugene W. Chafin, Arizona, JAMES M. BAKER, Secretary. any other antiliquor organization, Those at home whose hearts are with you, that even the leaders of the dry move- and Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 208,923 This resolution was adopted by the it has continued in the face of discour- leave a ment have difficulty in realizing that, votes. senate on August 1, 1917, by a vote of aging defeats. so far as can be foreseen now, their 1916, J. Frank Hanley, , and 65 to 20, nnd by the house of repre- The Prohibition party will celebrate fight has been won. Dr. , Tennessee, 214,340 sentatives on December 17 by a vote its fiftieth birthday next September. Shrader Photograph There has been nothing in the his- votes. of 282 to 128. House amendments were It was formally organized at a con- tory of the prohibition movement to Women Prominent In the Fight. Special price to all men in uniform and adopted by the Senate December 18. vention held in Farwell hall, Chicago, indicate that victory for the cause the women have 19 states For many years , those registered First to Ratify. In September, 1869, when would come with such swiftness, once Mississippi been prominent in the prohibition were represented by 500 delegates. congress had been induced to submit Mississippi was the first state to for the evils of Intemper- STUDIO AT 120 MAIN STREET For several the formation of movement, a vote senate and years the proposed amendment to of ratify the amendment, both ance bore on their sex. To Phone Main 1193 such a had been discussed be- heavily on 1918. Vir- party the states. Because of the difficulty house acting January 8, them must be a very large share cause the leaders of the Republican given with which changes In the federal ginia, Kentucky and South Carolina in the credit for the success of the and Democratic parties had virtually Constitution are secured It was not an- took similar action during the same it on a of fight. They started publicly fol- ignored the advocates prohibition. ticipated that ratification could be se- month and North Dakota soon scale in 1873 in Ohio with a cru- The Good in 1851 large but in most states action was Templars, organized cured by the necessary thirty-six lowed, sade to pray the saloons out of exist- as a society of total abstainers, urged states within less than two or three delayed until this year, when the vari- such action, and other leaders believed ence. This movement, inaugurated by a lit- it necessary. At a state temperance tle band of women who held convention held in Pennsylvania in prayer broach- meetings in saloons when permitted Sell You a 1867 the plan was first publicly We and on the outside when ed, and two years later on May 29, pavements not allowed to like wild- 1869, the call for the Chicago conven- enter, spread fN.ps.KOTA fire the nation and was tion was put out by the grand lodge of throughout SCHOLARSHIP “whirlwind the Good Templars in session at Os- denominated by the press a from the Lord.” saloons were '$ OSKOTA wego, N. Y. A committee to formulate Many out of but it soon be- — IN — the plans was named, conprising John swept existence, J. A. Cleve- came evident that prayer must be ac- r.rnRis a > Russell, Detroit; Spencer, would land, O.; James Black, Lancaster, Pa.; companied by action if they pre- John N. Steams, New York, and Dan- vent the return or che re-opening of iel Wilkins, Bloomington, Rl. The con- the saloons once closed. Business called this committee or- The call for was issued College vention Draughon’s by organization the on September 1, from Chautauqua, N. Y., in August, ganized party AT LITTLE ROCK. adopted a platform and appointed a 1S74. The convention was held in national committee of which John Rus- , O., November 18-20, 1874, sell was chairman. and at that meeting there was organ- First National Ticket. ized the National Woman’s Christian Union. were Nearly three years later, on Wash- Temperance Delegates ington’s birthday, 1872, the new party present from 17 states. met in convention in Columbus, O., to The plan of work was presented (by the place a national ticket in the field. Frances E. Willard and most of James Black was nominated for presi- thoughts embodied in the plan were The 6tates shown in black on this map are the thirty-six that made the dent and John Russell for vice presi- later worked out in the W. C. T. U. The world has never known such a demand for clerical nation dry. Other states have since ratified the prohibition amendment, but dent. Mr. Black was a prominent Good At this convention Miss Willard of- j were after ratification was they not needed voted by Nebraska, the thirty- Templar and also was one of the fered also the famous resolution: “Re- help as at the present time. Stenographers are command- sixth state to act. founders of the National Temperance solved, That recognizing the fact that Society and Publication house and of our cause is, and will be, combated by salaries far in excess of any year, and years at the least. Anti-proniDinon ous state legislatures convened. Then ing previous good the Camp Meeting association at mighty, determined and relentless I leaders felt that they had won a vic- the states took action on the amend- Ocean Grove, N. J. Mr. Russell, also forces, we wall, trusting in him who book and other office are tory when they placed a provision in ment in rapid succession. Following accountants, keepers help sought a leader of the Good Templars and a is the Prince of Peace, meet argument resolution that North Dakota the the Sheppard providing states acted in the the Methodist minister, was known as with argument, misjudgment with pa- for as much. It would be inoperative if not ratified following order until Nebraska, the just father of the Prohibition party, for he tience, denunciation with kindness, and by the legislatures of three-fourths of thirty-sixth to act, completed the rati- published a newspaper, the Peninsular all our difficulties and dangers with the states within seven years. fication : Write for our offer to Herald, which led the way in advocat- prayer.” exceptional scholarship The Sheppard prohibition amend- Maryland West Virginia ing the organization of the party for Pursued Many Roads to Its Goal. ment, which has just been ratified by Montana California Texas political action. From its earliest the W. more than three-fourths of the states Washington very years Delaware devotion to the Indiana With all their cause, C. T. U. out a of ave- of the Union, the number required to South sought variety The News-Service Dakota Arkansas no of the Prohibition leaders had hope nues Parke-Harper make it effective, becomes the eight- Massachusetts Illinois through which the children of the success in the election of 1872, and eenth amendment to the Constitution. Arizona North Carolina nation might be educated in the prin- Georgia Kansas they were not disappointed. Their BOX 648 LITTLE ARK. The resolution for its sub- ciples of total abstinence and the adult ROCK, providing Louisiana Alabama votes. This ticket received only 5,607 for mission to the state legislatures, intro- Florida Iowa won the absolute prohibition of did not discourage them, and four duced by Senator Morris Sheppard of Michigan Colorado the liquor traffic. Out of the juvenile Ohio years later they put Texas, was finally adopted by congress Oregon work grew the Loyal Temperance Le- Oklahoma New of and Gideon T. Stewart Hampshire Kentucky for the children, and the December IS, 1917. On Jauuary 16, Idaho Utah gion Young on the ticket. These gentlemen re- 1919, less than thirteen months after Tennessee Nebraska Peoples’ branch for the young men and ceived 9,737 votes. General the adopt ion of the resolution by con- Maine women. Later the children were en- ®f Maine, who had gained fame as the -We Make-- ratification of the amendment Before 40 Years. rolled as “Young Campaigners for gress, Congress author of the Maine Prohibition law, by the states was accomplished. No Rills Prohibition.” providing for nation-wide prohi- was the next presidential candidate, other proposed amendment to the Con- Over forty departments were organ- bition by legislation and resolutions in 1880, with H. A. Thompson in sec- stitution has been adopted with such ized, and carried on to some degree in proposing constitutional amendments ond place on the ticket. They polled* speed, wSth the exception of that for same every state and territory, and in from the purpose have been before only 10,366 votes. which provided for the abolition of ten to twenty thousand local unions. congress almost continually for more St. John's Hot Campaign. FOTOGRAFS slavery. Actiou on the seventeen other Among these were: Temperance work than 40 years. Senator £1. W. Riair of When the plans were being laid for amendments that have been adopted In Sunday schools, which, with scien- 1 — proposed the first the campaign of 1884, Frances E. Wil- Please- has from nine to tific instruction in That required forty-three amendment in 1873. This provided only lard and her fellow workers of the W. temperance public months. schools, brought practically all the for the prohibition of the manufacture C. T. U. entered the field. They sent The war is given the credit for has- and sale of children in the nation in touch with spirituous distilled liquors to the Republican convention a great tening the adoption of prohibition in for temperance truth; medical temper- St beverage purposes. He introduced petition asking that consideration be HARRIS, Fotografer Phone 600 Main this country. The economic aspect of a ance ; mothers’ meetings; flower mis- similar measure nine times, chang- given the pleas of the temperance ad- the was emphasized by the sion and moral question ing it in 1886 to include all alcoholic vocates, but it was ignored and even relief; equal suffrage; war emergency, and the handwriting education and race betterment; oratori- liquors. thrown into the dirt on the floor, and on the wail was seen when cal and medal congress Congressman Hobson of Alabama In- Miss Willard promptly turned to the declamatory contests; a law providing for nation- troduced Christian and child wel- passed the famous “Hobson resolu- Prohibition party. Her help was wel- citizenship, wide as a war to prohibition measure, tion’’ In the house December 19, 1913. comed and John P. St. John of Kan- fare. become effective July 1, 1919, and to The resolution came to a vote Decem- sas was put at the head of the cold For World Prohibition. Hot Ark. continue until the armies of the Unit- ber The World’s Woman’s 22, 1914, but received only 197 water ticket. Already he was a nota- Christian Springs, ed States have been demobilized. If votes, while 258 were necessary for its ble figure, for he had fought in the Temperance union was founded in 1883 this law into as contem- goes effect, adoption. Civil war os lieutenant of the by Miss Willard. It Is organized in .. The Wonder Spot of America the will plated, country go dry July 1, There is a probability that antiprohi- 143d regiment of Illinois volunteers 40 nations, with a total membership although the constitutional amend- bition forces will of over half a million. attempt to secure an and later served two terms as gover- FOR RHEUMATISM AND ment will not become effective until MALARIA, CHILLS, FEVER, annulment of the ratification vote in nor of Kansas. He was a Republican, In 1884 Miss Willard sent out from one year after its ratification by the several states OTHER CHRONIC DISORDERS and will attack the le- but his party thought him too warm a her home office In Evanston, III., ad- number of state required legislatures. gality of the action of congress. In friend of the prohibitionists and he dressed to each government of the Text of Amendment. San Francisco a court order has been was defeated for re-election in 1882. world, an appeal for total abstinence, Owned and controlled the U. S. Government. The text of the resolution by embody- secured restraining Governor Stephens Accepting the Prohibition nomination, purity of life, and against the maa- the amendment which has now High up in the healthful Ozark Mountains. - ing temporarily from signing the ratifica- h* went into the campaign with all ufacture and sale of opium, with this been is as follows: adopted tion of the amendment. It has been his vigor and delivered stirring call for world prohibition: “We come Delightful Balmy Days Cool, Sleepy Nights JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING stated that similar action may be taken speeches all over the country, espe- to you with the united voices of repre- AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTI- in other states, including Arkansas, cially paying attention to New York sentative women of every land, he- TUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. RADIUM—The latest analysis by the U. S. Government of these Colorado, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, stale, where the fight between James seeching yQu to raise the standard of Resolved the nenata and house of wonderful Hot Waters were found to be Raifio- by Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland had the law to that of Christian morals, Springs highly representatives of tho United States Missouri and active. Nebraska. In these made things very warm. St. John was to strip away the safeguards and sanc- of America in congres* assembled, states, it is declared, all action taken out to beat the Republicans, and he tions of the state from the drink traffic, tw®-thlrds of each house TOURIST RATES—Low tourist round rates now in effect on concurring by the state legislatures muy be sub- succeeded, for the Prohibition vote and to protect our homes by the total trip therein, that the amend- mitted rata following to the people under a referen- was large enough to let Cleveland win prohibition of this curse of civilization all railroads, from all points in America. Insist on this ment to the Constitution be, and here- dum. New York state and, in consequence, throughout all the territory over which by l», proposed to the states to be- Attorneys for the liquor Interests the nation. The Prohibitionists polled your government extends.” come valid as a of the part Constitu- claim that there are many on the vote This Business Men’s Lfagne, ----- points surprisingly large of 150,626. “polyglot” petition, as it has tion when ratified by the legislatures which the amendment be Cut out coupon and mail Art.! may attacked The Prohibition convention of 1896 been termed, is historically significant, , today Ilot Springs, of the several states ns provided by in the court* and plans have been split the party over woman suffrage for it was the first world-wide Please send me immediately, with- the procla- to Constitution: made, it is declared, for action out Illustrate* booklet of Blot along and money. The “free silver” minor- mation against the legalized liquor cost. Section 1—After one from the Springs. year these lines. ity formed a Liberal with Bent- traffic. party, MEN’S BUSINESS LEAGUE Kama.. .—,. St.. Only a minimum of New MUST PROVIDE NEW REVENUE unemployment Mexico, California, Ohio, Nevada, York on January 28 to adopt a definite Is as the Hot Springs, Arkansas City. .. State. expected, cumulative sever- Washington, North Dakota, Mississip- program. ity of restrictive measures Taxes Hitherto Derived From Traffic adopted pi, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana and It is pointed out, however, that the since the war in Liquor Will Have to Be began already has Utah. federal constitution itself does not Obtained caused many distillers and brewers to In California Elsewhere. court action has been contemplate any state action on seek other uses for their plants. taken to restrain the governor from amendments the New except by legislature, problems of government are Meanwhile a distillers’ committee the certifying action of the legisla- and action by the legislature, even In raised by prospective stoppage of the announced that in 22 stutes Telephone Main 271 the con- ture to Washington. states with referendum has here- traffic in liquor. The hundreds of stitutions laws, BANKby MAIL require referendum vote to El very resource of the tofore been DEMOCRAT PRINTING & WITH THE mtlUons of distiller*, deemed final. dollars derived from In- ratify a constitutional amendment. with resources of approximately SL- Senator said he was not ternal revenue will Shephard LITHOGRAPHING CO. Southern have to be ob- They named these states as follows: OW,000,000, it is said, will be employed disturbed over the of TRUST COMPANY tatned from other sources. projected fight PRINTERS AND Laws for South Dakota, Oregon, Mon- in the ^ Nebraska, supreme effort to save tbelr the liquor interests and declared no enforcement of the amendment also tana, Oklahoma, STATION ERS |k Maine, Maryland, businesses. A meeting of the distil- loopholes to invalidate the law would ■ t* ba passed congress. 5. aSnrhluun It UMb Reek by Michigan, Arkansas, Colorado. Arison*. lers’ committee will be held at New be found. ... -.

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