Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-11-13
HODGES PREDICTS
| j. s. PROHIBITION
Governor of Kansas Throws
Anti-Saloon League Con.
vcntion into Uproar.
HANNA TELLS OF PROSPERITY
Governor Of Maine Calls on Fed.
eral Government to Repeal
Internal Revenue Tax
on Liquor.
HANNA TELLS OF PROSPERITY

! Columbus, Ohio, Nov 12--Prodictin g
that a resolution prohibiting the trArto
! in intoxicants M beverages a the Unit ed
States ana all lts territories wo.;:d be
adopted by Congress and de1lsr.ns sot
"if am governor nf Kansss, + vii
/ Immediately convene the LesiAlsture in
! special session. II necessary. for the pvr-
pose OF ratfytrr the smcn9moat." Gov
ernor George Fl. Hodge. OF KauAa~ %
night threw tho fifteenth biennial coa-
v-n;ion of the American Anti-Saloon
League into ar uproar Of applause
Governor /. p. Harna of North Dn-
kota. snothe: speaker. gave statistics 20
show the prosperity OF his State undcr
| "prohibt.on' reign and said the brew
crs' vea" hook showed no consumption
- H's ~ their manufacture in 1911.
Cove llama said. however. that
Some h' ants were used In North Da-
kota, hut that the consumption was so
small that there was practically no pro-
fit for distillers or brewers
The days session was brought to A.
climax with stirring address by former
Governor NJ. r. Patterson OF Tennessee
in which he gave reasons for his enlist
ing in the Anti-Saloon League and re-
viewed his former life and activities.
which according to his statements had
been with the forces opposed to suppress
sion Of the liquor traffic
Friday the council of 100 which will for
muiate the demands upon Congress foY
Submission of a federal amendment to
the constitution providing for nationwide
prohibition will meet and It IS expected
that 100 signatures will be attached tc
the petition, including those OF COVER
nors former governors and members o.
Congress.
The Rev Father J. j. Curran ot
Wilkesharre, Pa. close friend OF former
President Roosevelt, said in his address
that the Catholia Church, through 'ndl-
vidual expressions of its clergy, eventual
ly will give hearty endorsement to the
work Of the Anti-saloon League.
Election of national officers will take
place Tomorrow
Liquor advertisements should not be
carried In the mails and the f,dera, gov
eminent should not collect 'd& for the
and sale OF intox!cants in
the opinion Of GOV. William T. Haines OF
Maine, as outlined in a paper read by
the Rev. Wilbur f. Berry. superintendent
of the Christian Civic League Of Maine,
II' 'lbNfIItT ptlnk unaDlh TO be present
THE federal tax now collected for the
and sale OF liquor" the
PAPER said. was put on as a necessity of
war. Why continue 1t? The fact that
me federal government licenses the sale
IF liquor and the State prohibits IT
makes dual situation between the two
governments, over the same people.
They are inconsistent and one or the
other right or wrong
we may need an amendment to the
as suggested by Governor
aldwn in recent address to prohibit
he sale of Intoxicating liquors. but we
lon't need an amendment TO repeal the
Internal revenue tax on liquore or to
prohibit the carving OF liquor advertise
nents in the mail and thus take the gov
'rnment out OF co-partnership with the
vhiskey and beer interests Nothing
would strengthen the hands OF the State
more than slch LEGISLATION" "