Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . of an amiy of voters and the combined effect In-gan to tc manifest fromabout 1900 onward to a degree that even the blindest could not fail to sec. In1908, 1910. and 1912, a determined and growing effort by the fanners who hadseen the economic loss through lal)orcrs and even their own sons going to townand carousing and so losing a day or more every week, started a corresjwndingnjovement in town. At first not successful, the campaign kept gaining. Council-men in the city and commissioners
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Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . of an amiy of voters and the combined effect In-gan to tc manifest fromabout 1900 onward to a degree that even the blindest could not fail to sec. In1908, 1910. and 1912, a determined and growing effort by the fanners who hadseen the economic loss through lal)orcrs and even their own sons going to townand carousing and so losing a day or more every week, started a corresjwndingnjovement in town. At first not successful, the campaign kept gaining. Council-men in the city and commissioners in the county were chosen more and more inthe direction of reform. The churches. Young Mens Giristian Association, schools, womens organizations. Salvation .ny. Good Templars, and especiallythe .Anti-Saloon League, each contributed its push. . city election under thelocal option law occurred in IQI2. The conservative business interests opixjsedthe proposition and even imported distinguished speakers from the East, par-ticularly from the beer center, Milwaukee, and on election day the liquor traffic. HOME OF B. P. 0. ELKS NO, 287. WALLA WALL. OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 295 (styled Personal Liberty) was still in the saddle. But it was clear that thevote of the city, combined with that of the county, would come back with greaterstrength in another election, and some of the more far-seeing liquor dealers beganarrangements to enter other business. In the great historical election of 1914, the State of Washington secured a definite prohibition law by referendum, thoughwith the permit system of personal importation of limited amounts of liquor.Walla Walla County was one of the strong counties in support of the law, beingsurpassed only by Yakima and Whitman in majority for the measure. It was to adegree an East Side victory, for the East Side gave over 25, 000 affirmativewhile the West Side, due to the heavy negative vote of Seattle, gave 10, 000negative. None who was in Walla Walla during t