Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-20


League regards the drastic measure now
before Congress for further regulation
of the liquor trade in the District Of
Columbia as an attempt to place Con-
gress on record and thereby strike Sc
we're blow to the liquor trade of the
United States. And that the officers and
members of the National Liquor League
are now hereby called upon to use every
honorable influence to defeat this meas
ure."
Resolutions Adopted.
following:
forts of certain public men to persistent
| ~ push forward our traffic as an ele-
| ment of contention in the matter of pol
tiles simply using it for exploitation pur-
poses, and with the idea of trucking
and pandering to morbid sentiment par
ticularly in the matter of interstate COM
merce. and the effort to centralize the
power in the federal government to
| abrfdge the rights of state governments
by laws intended to cripple interstate
| commerce.
| Resolved. That we challenge those who
seek by agitation under the guise Of re-
| form organizations clothed in religious
and innumerable other CARDS to show
| that they contribute one-thousandth part
as much as we do toward the prosperity
/ and perpetuity of the government or to
| the pleasure, comfort, well being and
happiness of an enlightened people.
| Resolved, That the existence OF our
business depends entirely for its continu-
alton on the demands of the public and
therefore 1t is but just to regard an at
| tack against 1t as one against the per-
sonal liberty of an overwhelming major
ity of the progressive citizenship of every
| part of the universe.
Resolved, That we extend our unquali-
fled Endorsement to every movement for
| the uplifting and betterment of our bust
ness. conscious as we are that moderation
and temperance insure its permanency,
| and ever mindful that prohibitory enact
ments do not and cannot prohibit, be-
cause of the absolute impossibility to
govern the manners and habits of people
by acts of legislation.
Resolved. That prohibition and local
option are Numerically opposed to every
principle of good government in that they
are responsible for alternating public
| opinion from system of mo license to
license" and vice versa, thereby period
| ically disturbing local conditions and cre-
ating perpetual ferInent.
| Resolved. That we regard local option
as a detriment In every community in
| which 1t is tested. by reason of the fact
that it depreciates the value OF local prop
erty, lessons bank deposits and turns
| away business to other sections. 1t is
fundamentally and commercially wrong
| by reason of the fact that it is the enter
| ing wedge for the development of the
| mail order business, which IL the fore
runner Of the parcels post. scheme that
would centralize all business in the larger
cities and take 1t away from the smaller
| ones"
Election Of Officers.
Mr.. McDonough, who halls from cleve-
land, Ohio, was unanimously reelected
president of the league; Howard c.
Woodbury., Boston. vice president; Thorn
as c. Hayes, Newark, N. j., treasurer;
Robert j. Halle. Chicago, secretary: p. H.
Nolan, Pittshurg, chairman of the literary
| bureau; Hugh T. Harvey, Washington.
| chairman of the congressional committee
| executive committee, z. j. Badenelli, p. j.
versen. Henry Stuhlman, Hugh Dolan,
George T. Carroll, William Seickel and
John F. Langan.
National Secretary's Report.
National Secretary R. J. Halle Of Chi
cago presented a report which referred
to the action Of labor organizations COM
ing out so strongly in opposition to Local
| option and also referred to Mrs. o. H. p
| Belmont of the woman'S sunragtSt move
ment. who, in a recent interview, de-
| cIared that the talk that when women
get votes the country will become pro-
| hibition Is all nonsense
| The re-establiShment of the army can
teen was recommended and extracts from
| commanding officers and superintendent
| of soldiers homes were quoted to. show
| that the anti-canteen law was detriment
! to the enlisted men in the army. Accord
| ing to Gen. F. y. Grant the health Of the
| United States Army is worse on the
whole than that of the worlds armies
| brought about by the restrictions placed
| upon the men as a result of the move
ments insisting on the passage Of the
| anti-canteen law.
| Following the adjournment of the
| league, the delegates attended a buffet
supper. Hugh F. Harvey, chairman OF
| the national legislative committee, was
/ POSTMASTER There were many ladies
| present. The speakers declared that the
| so-called prohibition tidal waves had
l spent its force and Is being rapidly dis
sipated under the influence of common
sense