Idaho Prohibits the Liquor Traffic

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 11, 1915

Idaho Prohibits the Liquor Traffic

RECENTLY the Idaho Legislature, after a message from the governor, adopted a resolution submitting to the vote of the people, at the next November election, a constitutional amendment providing for the suppression of the liquor traffic. But inasmuch as several near-by States will soon be in the dry column through legislation already passed, and there was a likelihood that saloon keepers from those States would establish themselves in Idaho, the Idaho Legislature enacted a law making Idaho a prohibition State after Jan. 1, 1916. The Idaho bill is said to be the shortest and most concise measure on record among prohibition enactments. Idaho makes the sixteenth prohibition State, and others are on the way. May the good work go on till the nation is free from the grip of the liquor plague.