The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-11-17
PROHIBITION WILL
Be VOTED ON NEXT
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Ants Saloon League
Announces Beginning
of Campaign.
NOT URA
By Defeat of County Option,
Organization Begins Next
Fight at Once.

In a statement issued today oy the
officers of the Anti-Saloon League of
South Dakota, it is announced that
a campaign has ben begun already
for the submission of a statewide
prohibition law to the voters OF
South Dakota two years from now.
1t is not explained why the league
gives up county option for prohibit
ton. Following is the statement is
sued by the league:
First: We wish to recount the
effective services that have been rem
dered by Anti-Saloon League men
and other temperance organization
all over the state in putting ND a
campaign worthy of the highest
Christian citizenship.
NOR must We forget the splendid
papers that could not be bought at
any price to publish the fabricated
sensational statement to hoax the
public, but gave freely Of their space
in the cause of the home as against
the saloon, not only for plate mat
ter, but for thai which is far better
the editorial championing of the
canse.
I'VE do o recognize the recent
skirmish as a uefeat, for in the words
Of Wendell Phillips, Defeat is only
a stepping stone to victory The
magnificent work Of a part OF our
citizenship that stopped at no sacri-
flee, is only an assurance of what
can be done when, by united effort,
we may bring the citizenship of the
entire state to a consciousness of
their duty anu responsibilities.
"Fhe Anti-Saloon League has put
up the best fight of it's existence
since we have been a league. We
have employed a large force Of office
and field workers. We have put out
during the last month, one million
six hundred eighty thousand, columns
of literature in the English language.
Besides We have published through
our official organ many thousand COZ
uIans of literature not included in
the above. We have also put out one
third of a million tracts within thirty
days to our constituency, largely
free of charge. In addition TO this
We have SEN out one hundred thou
sand pages of literature in the Swed-
jsh, Norwegian. German, and Indian
languages.
I'VE regret that We have not won
this campaign, but we do not regret
that we did not stoop to use the
methods OF the enemy. The educa-
tional value of campaign is not lost,
for it is simply preparation for a
larger campaign, not only before our
next legislature. fer additional re
strictive measures, but for statewide
prohibition itself, subject to the ap-
prevail of the National League.
I'VE credit our losing the battle
this time TO the following facts:
First: The apath. and indiffer-
a thousand other things that are
worthy of thought.
Second: The fact that so large
a percentage of the voters from whom
We expected a strong support re-
manned at Aome.
Third: The Vote No slogan of
the whiskey crowd, to all PROPOSE
lions on the ballot, emanating from
800 schools OF crime in the state,
teaching voters to stultify their in
t%el1isence and put a price on ignor-
ance in order to defeat county OPP
ton, o matter what important lesis-
lation may be found on other refer
endums, approaches most nearly
treason to the state and a crime TO
the intelligence of the voters OF the
state. Such reprehensible methods,
not only corrupt the electorate, but
imperil the benefits of q primary
law and undermine the government
OF the people, by the people ana for
the people.'''
Fourth: The confusion Of the
voters caused, not only by the many
referendums, but by all sorts of
~falsehoods and. Interpretations
appearing in the Argus Leader edi-
torials and other organs of the Saloon
Rule League. styling itself the Home
Rule League.
After looking at the documents
as a committee and reading the arti-
cles found in the August 9th edi-
ton of The Outlook as well as a
garbled quotation fro it, unsigned by
Roosevelt, we. as the Headquarters
Committee believe that the superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League
did not go farther than the truth jus
titled when he maintained that the
self-styled Home Rule League vas
seeking to create the impression that
Coz. Roosevelt had written the arti-i
Gle in question. The following quo
tatlon from a letter OF Ernest Ia.
Abbott to Walter Gardner. Brock
in.s, s. Oak, under date OF OctoberE
Utah. 1910. repudiates the Roosevelt
authorshi" false,,y claimed by saloon
h5relings:
Mr.. Roosavelt's connection with
the Outlook is that Of c~oSntributingl
editor and he can be held RESPONSE
BILE ONLY FOR WHAT APPEARSI
OVER HIS NAME. Moreover, what
appears in the leafet you enclose as
a quotation from The Outlook is
PALPABLY AND ORVIOUSLY
FALSE: NO SUCH SENTENCE AS
IN THAT LEAFLET RE-
GARDlNG COUNTY OPTION IN
OHIO CAN BE FOUND In THE
OUTLOOK
"The Saloon League of Sioux Fails
have given out the Impression that
Roosevelt did write the article that
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