The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-19
ONE MILLION ASKED
TO Be ABSTANERS
AntI-Saloon League Working
to Rear Temperate People
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Davis Conviction Results In
ReVuIsion Of Sentiment
Nation Wide Prohibition
Fight,


me North Carolina
league is now working toWard three
great aims. all having as their basis
'he stamping out Of the liquor traffic. |
1hey are the enforcement Of the Pro
hlbltlon laws; the organization Of =
L~incoln-Lee Legion in North Carolina.
ana n securing of an amendment to |
the Constitution prohibiting the sale
ana manufacture of Intoxicating liq-
uors throughout the nation.
Law Enforcement.
Following the lead of the Anti
saloon League, the Legislature OF
North Carolina enacted strong, vigor-
Gus legislation for the enforcement of
the prohibition law. The league is a
tower of strength to all officers and
all others DESTROYS of enforcing the
law. 1t stands sQuarely behin the
prosecution of the law-breaker and
The Whlskey dealer, and in every fight
on liquor the League may be found
in the thick Of the battle. dealing body
blows for law and order.
Inc recent attempt to diSCredit the
Antl-Saloon League through VIA is
believed to have been a frame up by
the tigers against the character of
Superintendent r. l.. Davis, has had
MIN III PoSl i1S1l Ae NNO-
Gates Of Prohibition and the friends
Of law and order IN North Carolina
nave not been in declaring
that the sensational charges against
Mr.. Davis which We're believed by a
Wake county jury, were the result Of
a conspiracy Of his enemies against
the man who had dealt such vigorous
blows for Prohibition. Despite the
fact that its superintendent was found
guilty of an assault on Wiley Straughn
which Detective Green sWOre that he
committed himself and for which
Green actually paid a fine of s. and
the costs, the Anti-SalOon League has
not been discredited in North Caro-
lima. Instead. the people have been
aroused as never before to the
strength of the Demon Rum in this
State and to the work that is needed
to stamp it out in North Carolina.
The cause Of law enforcement has
turned since the Davis trial to the
league as its champion and a com
plete revGlSion Of sentiment against
the illicit WhiSkey dealer has come
about.
} The Lincoln-Lec Legion.
The LinColn-Lee Legion is the en-
rollment of a million Sunday school
scholars throughout the nation in the
ranks Of the total abstainers.
4 The members Of the legion are re
4 VI ~ liz ~ lIiS
Il hereby enroll with the Lincoln
Lee Legion and promise with God's
help to keep the following pledge:
"Whereas. the use Of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage is productive o.
. pauperism. degradation, and crime
and believing it is our duty to dis
charge that which produces more evi
y than good, we therefore pledge our
selves to abstain from the use of in
toxicating liquors as a beverage"
There are now one million signer
Of the Lincoln-Lee pledge, and Rev
DR.. Toward H. Russell. national sec
rotary of the pledge-sisning depart
ment Of the Anti-Saloon League, ha
q issued a call for a million new signers
1t is believed that on Worlds Temper
ance Sunday. which is on Novembe
9. there will be enrolled another mil
II lion for total abstinence in the ia
TONS Sunday schools.
n The North Carolina Anti-Saloo1
League very strongly favors thi
movement, and is now at work tryin
% give North Carolina its proper en-
rollment in the million pledged to to
tai abstinence. The League is secur
ing the cooperation of the W. c.
to u, Of the Y. NJ. c. A., and the Y. "
C. A.. and of all the denominations /
is q word, every religious organiZauo
is being asked to help on the grea
er work of ~pledging the boys and girl
Of the Old North State TO total abstir
r ence. The motto of the DICTIONARIES
All Observation-Disclosures.
National Prohibition.
10 The object Of the Anti-Saloo
q League as set forth in article 2 of tt
nd constitution OF the organization. j;
or '.The determination Of the Beverae
LIQUOR Traffic" The Anti-Saloo
League. ever since its organization
a. 1898. has been working toward tn:
d. end.
~ Adhering steadfastly to that air
the league has gone forward in ste