The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
TEMPERANCE LEAGUE
FIGHTS UNION WITH
BREWERY INTERESTS
s. Edgar Nicholson, Secre-
tary of Anti-Saloon League
Denies Coalition.
OPPOSITION TO GO ON
Foes of Saloon Persist in War
on Both Brewers and
Distillers.

."The proposed plan of uniting the
interests to wage war against the dis
tilleries which is assigned to William
III. Anderson, the Baltimore attorney
and prominent in Anti-Saloon League
be acceptable to the League, and on
the other hand I firmly believe that
Mr.. Anderson never had plan like
that in mind" said S. Edgar Nichol-
son, general secretary of the Anti-Sa-
loon League, in an interview this morn
ing after reading copies of the state
ments of Mr.. Anderson.
"Mr. Anderson is too practical a
receive the support of the temperance
people of the nation" continued the
secretary. Il have just received a
lengthy communication from him to-
day and he mentions nothing of the
matter. 1t is my opinion that the
words of the Baltimore attorney have
been misconstrued by some CORES
pondents.
1T is quite probable that Mr. An
derson has been interviewed by news
paper men in connection with reso-
luton recently introduced by Senator
Works, of California, proposing an
amendment to the Federal constitution
prohibiting the manufacture of whs--
key and that he has been misquoted.
League Opposes Move.
Il am safe in saying that plan of
that nature would not receive the sup
port of single member of the Anti
Saloon League.
1T is quite true that the brewery
and distilling interests have been unit
ed In all the campaigns, as they rea-
lize that if they are separated they
might be put out of existence by the
aggressiveness of the temperance
work and it is not because that either
one is willing to suffer for the others
sins that they have united and classed
so.
There may have been occasions
where the Anti-Saloon workers have
waged war merely on the distillers,
but that was only in places where the
brewers and distillers were widely sep
dIdteu Iuinh IHdI the writer Oh tDe
Philadelphia despatch must have had
that specific campaign in mind. That,
however, is not the general plan of the
League.
intimation False.
I'm general / think that even an in
timation that the Anti-Saloon League
would unite with the brewers to oust
the distillers is false and that one
might as well understand that such a
move will not be made by the national
forces"
Owing to pressing business matters,
Mr.. Nicholson is not expected to at
tend the convention of the Anti-Sa-
loon League at Columbus, Monday, No
vember 10, although on Friday of the
same week he will attend a conference
of workers which will be held follow
Ing the close of the convention.
Before returning to Richmond about
year ago Mr.. Nicholson was assist
ant general manager of the Anti-Sa-
loon League and general secretary
with headquarters in Washington, D.
e. Upon leaving the United States cap
ltal he resigned both offices but he
was retained as secretary.
The conference November IA, ac-
cording to Mr.. Nicholson, is to devise
plan whereby all temperance organ
izations of the United States may be
united in the stamping out of the
liquor evil.