Are we soon to have a saloonless nation? Many devout people
believe that within a decade the liquor traffic will be legally banished from
the soil of our fair land. That many of the signs of the times point back to
this desirable consummation is unmistakably manifest to every discerning individual.
For example, in a recent address at Chautauga, N.Y., Miss Anna A. Gordon,
Vice-president of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, expressed
the opinion that the prospect is good because in recent years John Barleycorn
has been several times struck by national prohibition lightning. Among other
things, she said: “The abolishment of the sale of liquor in the restaurants of
our national capitol building, in the soldiers’ homes, and in the army canteen;
the so-called “white-ribbon regime” at the White House; the passage of the
Webb-Kenyon bill for the protection of prohibition territory; the fearless
action of Secretary Daniels in banishing strong drink from the navy; the order
of Secretary of War Garrison closing 35 saloons on the United States side of
the Panama Canal zone—all these electric bolts must have somewhat prepared John
Barleycorn for the fearful storm soon to break, when national prohibition
lightning will strike down every distillery, every brewery, and every dramshop
in our great nation.
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