Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-19
Anti-SaIoon League Wants
Half Million to Fight Liquor.
CONFERENCE HERE AT END
Most of Delegates Return Home to
Raise Money for Crusade.
TALK BY SENATOR KENYON
Explains Amendment to Bill Intend
ed to End Interstate Shipment.
Urges Political Activity.

Most of the delegates to the Anti-Sa-
| loon League conference which has been
| in session In Washington for the past
| three days left for their homes today. to
start work in the campaign for raising
a fund of half a million dollars with
| which to carry on the fight against the
| liquor traffic.
At the closing business session OF
the conference yesterday afternoon 1,
was decided to raise a $685. 600 fund to
finance an anti-liquor crusade extending
to every part of the United States. The
fund will be raised in yearly instalments
of 100000, and it is expected that with
this amount of money an aggressive and
successful battle can be waged to extend
prohibition territory in the north. east
and west, as we'll as in the south and
middle west. where the anti-liquor move
ment has made its greatest progress in
the last few years.
Nearly 400 delegates to the conference
attended the banquet last night at the
, Raleigh and heard Senator Kenyon OF
Iowa and other prominent foes Of the
liquor business in number Of addresses.
The Iowa senator. explaining the amend
ed Kenyon bill, intended to put an end to
the interstate shipment Of liquor from
WEI to dry states when the liquor Is in
tended to be sold, said that much will re-
main to be done by the foes of the liquor
traffic after the bill becomes law.
Advised to Enter Politics.
Attorney General George Cosson of
Iowa advised the delegates to get into
politics if they want to get anywhere.
"If the prohibition people would only
vote as solidly for what they believe as
the saloon men and liquor people do.
there would mighty soon be no temper
ance question in this country, because
the prohibition forces could OutvOte the
liquor men two to one,' said the Iowa
attorney general.
William F. COrcoran Of Baltimore urged
the anti-liquor people to vote for woman
suffrage and to insist that the political
organizations of their various states
adopt anti-saloon planks as a part of
their political platforms. Senator Saun-
ders of Tennessee discussed the methods
which. he said. have been adopted by
prohibition states, and in the course OF
his talk paid a tribute to Robert S.
Sharp, who, he said, was chiefly reSpon-
sible for Postmaster General Hitchcock
order excluding liquors from the parcel
post.
Tells Of Fight in Army and Navy.
Col. L. NJ. Maus. U. S. A., told Of the
fight being waged to drive liquor out OF
the army and navy, and urged that the
anti-liquor forces work for legislation
forbidding commanding officers in both
branches of the service to use liquor of
any kind. further urging the ACCESSIBILITY
of forbidding the use of liquor among
police officers. The invocation at the
banquet was pronounced by Bishop Lu-
ther Wilson of Philadelphia, Representa-
tive Sheppard of Texas acting as toast
master
At yesterday afternoons business SEES
sion number of resolutions were adopt
ed. among them being one condemning
college presidents who are not total alb
stainers. A demonstration occurred when
DR.. Andrew j. Barton Of Galveston, Tex.
declared. in supporting the plan for the
use of the names of Lincoln and Lee in
in connection with the work of the Lin
coln-Lee Legion of Temperance Workers:
Il propose that we have a Lincoln le-
gion in the south and a Lee legion In the
north. 1t is significant that the names
of these two greatest men OF American
history should be linked together in sup
port OF the greatest moral question which
has ever confronted the American peO-
pie 9.
Another proposition decided on provides
| for a worldwide temperance conference
| in Chicago in November, 1913, to COM
memOrate the twentieth anniversary OF
| the founding of the Anti-SaloOn League
| of America.