p. 6 | The Southern Prohibition Movement

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 23, 1907

The Southern Prohibition Movement

THE movement for the abolition of the saloon is especially strong in some of the Southern States. Concerning this movement in Georgia, The Golden Age, of Atlanta, says:—

No such systematic effort for prohibition has ever been made in Georgia as is now going on. County after county has closed out the traffic in the last few months, and the tide of demand for State prohibition is steadily rising higher and higher. Thousands of petitions are being signed by all classes, urging the legislature to pass such laws as will effectually prevent the manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicating drinks in the State.

Texas, Tennessee, and Kentucky are also making good advancement toward the ousting of the saloon business. It is reported that the governors of both North and South Carolina are prohibition men. So strong has the temperance movement become in the southern half of the country that the liquor forces are freely acknowledging the danger to their business.