THE ONLY REMEDY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1906

THE ONLY REMEDY.

PROHIBITION is the only effective weapon against the liquor traffic. It took the majority of "temperance" men a long time to find this out. All other schemes have proved to be only compromises that fell by the weight of their own inconsistency. Prohibition, even by the apparently slow, plodding process of local option, is winning great victories.

CLARKSVILLE ARK. CALABOOSE
AFTER 10 YEARS OF PROHIBITION — CLARKSVILLE ARK. CALABOOSE AFTER 10 YEARS OF PROHIBITION

In Arkansas, after long and arduous work, a law was secured under which a majority of the adults of any community can get rid of the saloon at any time by petition signed by such majority. In 1896 there were forty-two saloon counties to thirty-three prohibition. In 1905 the situation has been changed to nineteen saloon counties and fifty-six prohibition. A like progress is being made in several other Southern states, notably Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia.

Local option has had some marked victories in Oregon. It won at the polls in 1904. It won in the Legislature in February, 1905, and again in the Supreme Court in July of last year.

The liquor traffic is like a cancer; leave a root and it will grow again. It is like a tapeworm; leave the head and it will grow again. The only remedy is annihilation—persistent prohibition. That this fact is realized by those engaged in the liquor business, is shown by the fact that prohibition is the one temperance measure that they really fear and seriously combat. The brewers of Texas have assessed themselves thirty cents on the barrel of beer, amounting to over ninety-nine thousand dollars, to push the campaign against local option in that state. Texas is now three-fourths prohibition, and the other portion is considerably agitated.