When a county goes dry, it is generally in spite of the county-seat.

Such temperance people as are in the court-house town represent the church-vote, which is even then in goodly proportion a retired-farmer vote.

The larger the county-seat, the larger the non-church-going population and the more stubborn the fight.

The majority of miners and factory workers are on the wet side everywhere.

The irritation caused by the gases in the mines, by the dirty work in the blackness, by the squalor in which the company houses are built, turns men to drink for reaction and lamplight and comradeship.