The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-07-06
goes for them in his paper, The CAPT.
tai, published in Lincoln.

goes for them in his paper, The CAPT.
tai, published in Lincoln.
He declares that inquiries over the
state demonstrate that the league is
perfecting no organization to secure
the election of county option candi.
dates to the legislature, and he blames
the officers of the league for the vigor
with which they pass the hat and
refrain from doing their work.
"The Anti-Saloon league" says
Harrison in his paper, "is . magni6-
cent collecting machine, and there its
effectiveness stops. 1t disclaims any
part in conventions or platforms,
makes no preparation for the nomina-
ton of suitable candidates at prima.
ries, and simply attempts to carry
elections by proclamations issued from
the headquarters at Lincoln, and
from the national headquarters in
Ohio. The failure to secure q county
option legislature two years ago was
because earnest county optionists be-
lieved the state was organized, when in
fact the organization was only . pre-
tense, and the coterie responsible for
this situation had been 30 intent on
securing donations from churches to
keep up salaries that tie nomination of
candidates had been totally neglected.
"The campaign is too far along this
year, and the issue too vital, to will
fully permit of the same mistake again.
The fact that an organization keeps up
its existence and maintains 'superin-
tendents' and attorneys on fat salaries
through the aid of money Collected On
the inside of churches does not exempt
it from sensible criticism. What is
demanded is less proclamation and
more result.
what the Anti Saloon league
claims is that it works entirely within
the churches-that it is the church in
action against the saloon. 1t organizes
by naming three men in each church
whose duty it is to furnish to the head
quarters at Lincoln the names Of the
church men who will vote against the
saloon. These men are to he instruct.
ed by mail from Lincoln how to vote,
and the sum of $50, 600 is to be collect
ell for this purpose. None of this
money is to be permitted for use in the
local counties. General Superintend.
ent Baker Of Ohio, sends out notice
that some of the churches may retain
some of the money thus collected far
their local campaigns, but not for long
If they have a name to live and want
to retain it.
Harrison complains because promi.
nent salaried officers of the state league
deserted the state and hired themselves
out to the Colorado communities Just
while the spring campaigns were on in
Nebraska, and fail to show their Colo
RADIO earnings in the treasury state
ment. This is perhaps also matter
for complaint from those who pay only.
"The plain facts" says Harrison,
"are that the good preachers of Ne
braska could furnish the lists of their
membership without expense, and
could influence that membership them
selves ten times better than can any
mail order scheme. And the money
that is poured SO freely into the mys-
FERROUS treasury Of a league of three
men in Lincoln could better be used iu
the communities and counties, organ
izing for practical results under the
of local men.
County optionists should at once
awake to the situation. Let US have
an end to these high priced proclama.
tons. and this hat passing for the
benefit of salaried do nothings, and let |
Us have some actual and sensible work |
lone where work counts. Don't imag.
inc for a moment that the walls of this
modern brewery Jericho can be tum.
bled down by the blowing Of rams
,orns, especially when the horns are in
he exclusive hands of three officers
who first demand all the available
unds as an inspiration for full breath
md long continued blowing"
1t would seem as if the radical tenn
'erance people of Nebraska are thus
ardily finding out what q graft the
Anti-Saloon league has been from its
inception, here and everywhere, and
re discerning that they have been
mixed Systematically in the name of
elig'on and moral uplift. 1t is sad
o see the reformers at each others
hroats in this way, but where rival.