Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
PLAN MADE FOR COMMITTEE OF
1000 TO VISIT NATIONAL
CAPITAL
PART OF CAMPAIGN FOR
NATIONWIDE PROHIBITION
to Follow UP Introduction
Of Bills in Both H ouses - Effort -
Unite All Temperance Forces and
Carry Question Into Elections - No
Persunetory Proposition.
Especial correspondence.1

Especial Correspondence
Washington, Oct. 2s.-The greatest
demonstration in behalf Of prohibition
which Washington has ever seen is to
be made here toward the close Of the
special session of congress or early in
the regular session.
The purpose Of this demonstration
will be to launch the movement for q
prohibition amendment to the federal
constitution This movement is to be
pressed before the house and senate
the coming winter with the utmost
vigor and earnestness.
Hitherto, the idea Of a constitutional
amendment providing for prohibition
of the manufacture and sale Of liquor
has been more or less vague and in
definite. It is indefinite no longer. It
is to be urged on congress and the
country with all the force which the
united temperance elements Of the ma
ton can command.
Committee Of 1000.
Nov. II there will begin in Column
bus. o., the jubilee national conven-
ton Of the Anti-Saloon Lea que. It Is
predicted 10000 people will attend.
Following that convention, at which
the subject of nationwide prohibition
will be the paramount theme. It Is
the purpose to send q committee Of
1000 people to Washington. to invade
the national capital, and to impress on
the administration and on the law
makers that the movement for temper
ance has assumed gigantic proper
tons.
BY the time that committee reaches
here. the resolution for submission OF
q constitutional amendment will have
been introduced in both houses One
or more such resolutions are already
introduced but they are not IN the ex-
act form which prohibition leaders pre-
fer. Senator Works has introduced
one but-it applies only to spirits.
To Unite All Temperance Forces.
Leaders OF the prohibitory movement
in Washington cay the committee. or
delegation Of 1000 will be chosen and
will make the trip to this city In ac-
cordance with "get-togetheF plans or
a committee Of 100 of the temperance
forces This committee Is seeking to
unite IN the movement for a prohibi-
ton amendment to the constitution all
OF the temperance forces. Hitherto
those forces have not worked In entire
harmony. While their real aim has
been the same, they have had diner-
emit methods. Now. however. II 70 the
hope that the third party prohibition.
lists. the Antt-Saloon League and all
other temperance or ant1-Nquor FORCES
may be found working together
II has been twenty years since the
Anti-Saloon League was founded ana
the Jubilee convention IS in celebra-
ton OF the twentieth anniversary OF It's
founding.
No Psrfunetory Proposition.
The plan to promote the submission
of a prohibitory amendment to the
constitution is not going to be any per-
functory proposition. according TO the
statements Of men prominent IN the
Anti-Saloon League here. They pom!
out, to begin with, that the cause OF
prohibition has q great many frienos ~
house and senate. Secretary OF STATE
William J. Bryan Is IN favor OF pro-
hibition and his aid will be invoked
So VIII that Of other public men VINO
are favorable to the prohibition cause
Much will be made OF the tact tnat
Kaiser Wilhelm has set out TO REFORM
the German nation and convert II TO
abstinence.
Nine states have already gone over
to prohibition and twenty eight states
ara either under prohibition or near
prohibition.
The states which have passed pro-
h,h;tory laws or have adopted prohib-
,tory amendments are Maine, Kansas
North Dakota. North Carolina, Georgia
Tennessee. Oklahoma, Mississippi, ano
West Virginia.
The temperance elements calculate
that the force OF the temperance ano
the prohibition movement IN the pro
hihition and near-prohibition states Is
going to give their cause TREMENDOUS
! impetus in congress-
Issue in Elections.
! Not the least interesting phase o.
Tho situation is that the temperance
forces purpose to carry the issue into
the coming congressional campaign II
i1q14 Wherever a liquor man 1s found
he will be knitted at the polls by the
friends of the prohibition amendment
Needless to say. this enort 10 ~.
prohibition amendment submitted u
the people will cause a struggle OF 81
eantic proportions between the liquor
and anti-liquor forces. washington
will ba the center of 1t but 1t Will o.
vaoed in most Of the states OF ths
union. and especially in those state'
and districts where the strength OF TN
\ IL ahOl1f evenly OIL