OCTOBER 1, 1915 



day before election, and on election day; 

 and I kept nervously wateliing' for some 

 intimation of the outcome. Not a word 

 appeared next day in any of our daily 

 papers: rot a word the second or third day. 

 I began to tell i\Irs. Root that no news was 

 good n(!\vs, especially when it must come 

 through the dailies that are on the wet side. 

 Finally on I'riday morning', Sept. 17, while 

 1 was at the iMethodist parsonage a good 

 lady infoi'med me slie saw something in the 

 paj.icrs to the effect that South Carolina 

 had gone dry, without any particulars. 



I try to be chaiitable, dear friends, but 

 I could not help thinking that the great 

 dailies of our neighboring city of Cleveland 

 would show a little more alacrity in giving 

 us tempci'ance news if it were not for the 

 fact that every one of them carries beer and 

 licjuor advertisements, that would make 

 it look .<:trange if tl'.ey uttered a word in the 

 wtiy of rejoicing over a temperance victory, 

 csjietMally at the operiing of tliis mighty 

 campaign here in Ohio. Finally mj' heart 

 was made glad to find the following on the 

 Tront page of the American Issue, in big 

 letters: 



SOUTH CAROLINA VOTES DRY 



THE KIN'FTEEXTH STATE KNOCKS OUT SALOONS BV 

 A A'OTE OF MORE THAN TWO TO ONE. 



Tuesday of this week South Carolina voted ou 

 slate wide prohibition, and" the drj-s won by more 

 than two to one. The nineteenth state to vote out 

 Jolin Barleycorn will become dry the first of next 

 Jaiiuary. Fifteen of the forty-four counties were 

 wet under the county dispensary system. Early 

 returns indicate that all but one county, possibly 

 two, srave dry majorities. The county containing the 

 Ciipital city of Columbia wont dry with a whirl. 



South Carolina points the way for Ohio. Let the 

 Buckeye commonwealth become the twentieth state 

 to outlaw the saloon. 



Surely God's kingdom is coming. 



Later. — The following has just come to 

 hand, dated Columbia, S. C, Sept. 15. I 

 copy it from the Manatee River Journal: 



South Carolina yesterday adopted state-wide pro- 

 hibition, to take eiTect January 1, 1916, according: to 

 almost complete unoiTicial returns gathered here. 

 The vote, with nearly full returns from irjost of the 

 'ounties. late last night stood 



For prohibition, 33,104. 



.\trainst prohibition, 14.157. 



The total vote, while well over that cast in most 

 pcneral elections in South Carolina, is far below the 

 customary poll in Democratic primaries. From 

 present indicatious it seems likely that the total will 

 ' •■ in the neighboriiood of 60,000. 



(rovernor Manning, who M-as elected on a local- 

 ■liiion platform, after learning the results of the 

 vote, save out a statement saying that, the people 

 l:aving spoken, he would do his utmost for the en- 

 forcement of the law, and would expect the support 

 of all the citizens in his polic> . 



Of the thirty counties already dry under the local- 



ption law, all gave varying majorities in favor of 



^•atewide prohibition, (he margin being large inmost 



Lkses. Only one oi tl.c counties now having dispen- 



i-aries is certainly on the local-option side. 



PLOrUDA's NEW TEMPERANCE LAW TO GO INTO 

 EFFECT OCT. 1; SEE P. 474, .JUNE 1. 



i^bout the time this number reaches you, 

 Florida will be fully ready for law enfo'ree- 

 meut. If you are not already aware of it, 

 tiie Davis laAv is ready to go into effect. See 

 (he following, just sent us by the Anti-sa- 

 luon League of Florida : 



FIODERAI, JUDGE DECLAEKS FOR SMASHING THE 

 SALOON. 



My notion is that the saloon will have to go. I 

 believe the time will come when the people will rise 

 up and smash the saloon — at least as we have it 

 today. The evidi^uce in this case showed that the 

 ealcions were the center of nearly all the corruption 

 in the election at Torre Haute. — Federal Judge 

 Anderson. 



T!ie Davis law will smash the saloon as it is. 



Then tlie Davis law should be enforced, for it 

 allows • 



1. No drinks sold or given away — sales to be only 

 in sealed packages. 



2. No drinking — no package can be opened in the 

 room where sold. 



o. No screens, pictures, music, cards, tables, 

 chairs, or gambling-. 



4. No loitering — " buy your package and go." 



5. No selling to women, boys, drunken men, nor 

 on credit. 



C. No free luncii — no eatables at all; the "decoy ' 

 gone. 



7. No social dram, no treating; profit gone; good 

 by, saloon. 



S. No back doors, no dark holes in wall, no back 

 rooms. 



9. No selling between 6 P. M. and 7 A. M. 'ITiink 

 of it ! — the saloon to be closed during the hours 

 when nearly all profits are made. 



Verily this law smashes the saloon " as we have 

 it today." 



Our next legislature will kill it altogether. 



Therefore the Davis law should be enforced. 



One hundred and forty-seven liquor-dealers in 

 Jacksonville shall obey the law or else they will 

 plunge Florida into a state of anarchy, holding 

 Florida by the throat, saying, " You can't enforce 

 your laws." 



Even the lawyers of the liquor-dealers themselves 

 say that the Davis law is constitutional, and can 

 be enforced. But it is the old story, " The Whisky 

 Rebellion." 



Let us submit no longer to the rule of rum. 



Unfurl the flag and enforce the laws. Let the 

 people rule. 



Rally to the help of the Anti-saloon League; and 

 please, as you value our sacred cause, send a check 

 or cash offering to help us pay the expenses of 

 organizing and working committees in every wet city 

 to enforce the Davis law. 



We must work fast to get ready for October 1. 



0. W. KiNNF. 



302 St. James Building, Jacksonville. Fla. 



BARRTNG INTOXICANTS FROM THE INDIANS; 

 WHY NOT DO IT FOR THE AFRICANS? 



We clip the following from the Sunday 

 School Times: 



AFRICA'S horrible BARROO.M. 



The following item from the Boston American 

 illustrates a kind of news which appears every few 

 weeks, and the handicap which we place in the way 

 of Christian civilization while we send missionaries 

 at great sacrifices to advance it. The item ra;i as 

 follows: "The Estelle Krieger is taking out nearly 

 300,000 gallons of rum. The demand for rum in 



