Temperance Measures Across North America
In the temperance field a number of items of interest have been reported during the week. The governor of Pennsylvania has signed a bill prohibiting the sale of cigarets and cigaret-paper to any person under twenty-one years of age in that State. Reports from all the towns of Kansas which held elections on April 7 show that the vote in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law is the most overwhelming in the history of that State. Only six towns of any importance voted in favor of a “liberal” policy toward the saloons. It is good to see this revival in the temperance work in Kansas, especially since the liquor element seems to have scored a point in the prohibition State of Vermont. An anti-cigaret bill has passed both houses of the Utah legislature and been signed by the governor which lays a fine of $5 or five days’ imprisonment upon any person under eighteen years of age who has in his possession a cigaret, cigar, opium, or tobacco. The women reformers of Canada have succeeded in having passed by the Ottawa House of Commons a bill prohibiting the importation, manufacture, and sale of cigarets in the Dominion.