PROHIBITION SENTIMENT

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 27, 1907

PROHIBITION SENTIMENT.

THE Associated Prohibition Press Legislative Correspondence to date shows that an aggregate of over 250 bills relating to the liquor traffic have been introduced in thirty-five different state legislatures since January 1.

Up to Jan. 1, 1907, there were in the United States, three states under full state prohibition law, and six other states rapidly approaching state prohibition thru "county-option," while the people of more than thirty states and territories had no effective legal weapon whereby to abolish the liquor business within their borders.

In less than forty days since January 1, these conditions have developed:

State prohibition, constitutionally established in Maine, Kansas, and North Dakota, referred to as "dead" or "dying" by hostile press and license politicians, and bitterly assailed by all the influence and power which the liquor interests could bring to bear, has, on the contrary, proved extraordinarily alive.

"Resubmission," altho widely advertised in the newspapers, it is now openly conceded has failed to elicit any popular response in either Maine or Kansas, and has been shelved as an issue in both states, while legislation strengthening prohibition enforcement is scheduled for passage in all three legislatures.