Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-18
PROHIBITION IN DISTRICT
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PRO
POSES AN OBJECT LESSON.
Appeal to Be Made to Congress at It's
Next Session-Spirited Con-
test Probable.

A determined effort will be made next
winter II is said to bring about the enact
ment by Congress of law making Wash
ington a dry town in every sense of
the word. Information received here today
from Norfolk, Va, where the Anti Saloon
League of America has been IN session, is
to the effect that campaign having as
It's object the eradication of the saloon
from this city VIII be inaugurated at once
by the leagues and other temperance or
CARNATIONS in the states, and that pressure
Will be brought to bear upon senators and
representatives from many sources. urging
them TO vote for the proposed law for total
prohibition in the District of Columbia
AT yesterdays session of the national
league 1t was declared that the nations
capital can only be freed of saloons by
tne states OF the Union influencing their
representatives in Congress"
The Washington League, in combina ton
with the churches, will, it is said, inaugu-
rate the dry town movement for Washing
ton at once, with the iuea of making this
city AN object lesson in temperance for
the rest of the nation to pattern by" as
Il temperance advocate put it TO-DAY
Officers of the Personal Liberty League of
the District were today informed of the
proposed program OF the Ant-Saloon
League and other temperance forces to
prohibit the sale of liquor in Washington
One of them said steps would be taken
promptly to organize the opposition to the
CAM gn of the "drys."
The Other Side
we will meet the Issue sQuarely and
fairly, said an officer of the local league,
and we believe Congress will decide
against prohibition in the District with as
much emphasis .as the District committee
of the House did at the last session. The
prohlbitionsts are going too far, and there
Is bound to come a reaction. When they
declare that the drinking of a cocktail by
a prominent government oftic al is in the
nature of crime, they taking a long
stride toward ruritanical Intolerance, and
one that viii fy back at them with the
force az boomerang. When the attempt
is MAIDS to make this a dry town the pro-
hibitlonists viii find the Personal Liberty
League and other influential associations
and individuals are ready for them We are
aware that secret steps are already being
taken to carry out their object.
Il was said today that the temperance
crusaders are recruiting their ranks in thi;
city with the View OF entering upon the
campaign for the eradication of the sale of
Intoxicating beverages from the District,
and that they are seeking to enlist the
services of many ministers of the gospel in
the work
A member of the Personal Liberty League
pointed out this afternoon that approx
mately 1,'hr persons signed petitions TO
Congress last winter opposing the prohibi-
ton of the Sa Don here. He said that many
of the signers and others would affiliate
with the Personal Liberty League in its
work against the proposed prohipitory leg
is alton.
View of a Crusader.
Mr.. John r. Mahoney, one of the leading
members of the Temperance Crusaders,
said today when he heard of the action of
the AnuSaloon League at Norfolk that it
has been the purpose of the crusaders to
have bill introduced in Congress prohib-
iting the sale OF liquor, not only in the Dis
trict of Columbia. but also in all territories
and reservations under the control of the
United States government.
In our efforts to secure the passage of
this proposed bill added MI Mahoney
we will get together with the Anti-Sa
loon League, the W. c. T. l.. and other or
CARNATIONS that believe in the betterment
OF mankind"
Mr.. Mahoney held that under the Consti-
tuition of the United States the gOvernmen Mt
has no right to license the saloon, as 1t
guarantees the people protection from all
Influences that hurtful a consti;u-
tional point may therefore be raised i'll the
matter by the Temperance Crusaders.