Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-01-31
Anderson Attacks Lee At The
League Meeting.

The quarterly meeting Of the Montgom-
cry County Anti-Saloon League. held in the
Baptist Church, of this town, on Tuesday
last, was full of interest for those who at
tended, numbering about $50 persons,
which was considered large attendance.
The morning session was taken up with
business. At noon luncheon, prepared
by the ladies, was partaken of by those
attending the meeting
The afternoon session was mainly de-
voted to a speech by VIM. H. Anderson,
Superintendent of the State Anti-Saloon
League, who arrived at the church about
O'Clock, He read his speech, which, in
part, is as follows:
The liquor men boosted at the close of the
last Legislature that the Anti-Saloon League
would make just one more fight for local
option and then abandon it. For once they
told the truth. But just listen to how we will
abandon it {; We will abandon it for State
prohibition.
IF the Legislature of 1914 does not pass
the Local Option bill, the league will start
at once to elect a Legislature which in
1916 will submit prohibition constitu-
tional amendment to the people of Mary
land. And what is more, the Anti-Saloon
League will not beg the politicians to pass
the bill this time. We have the liquor
interests now where anything they do is
mistake for them and will help the tenn
perance cause.
Il have been frequently accused by the
liquor men of not wanting the Local OPP
ton bill to pass for fear would lose my
job and my salary, and then there are
some folks who claim to be temperance
men who say they are for local option and
would line up with the temperance forces
if they would get rid of Anderson Ihave
decided to show that these are merely
fiimsy excuses, and now propose to the
liquor interests and their political friends
that if they will pitch in and help put the
leagues Statewide Local Option bill
through at the next session will leave.
you will be pleased to know also that
since the last meeting the Kenyon-Shep-
pard Interstate Liquor Shipment bill has
come out of committee in the Senate and
the final vote has been fixed for February10
I'VE believe that the new Republican
Senator from the Eastern Shore appointed
by Governor Goldsborough will vote for
this bill. We are also informed by his friends
the other Senator. also from the Eastern
Shore, will vote for it.
THE Baltimore Suns Washington cor
respondent is authority for the statement
that every poll shows that there are votes
enough to pass it.
What next after the Kenyon bill Why
a prohibition amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States which will be-
come effective when ratified by three
fourths of the States The liquor men
have also fastened this by their resistance
to moderate national legislation.
I'VE have also made certain amendments
to the Local Option bill The opposition
claimed last winter that it would prohibit
the manufacture of liquor or if not, thatit
would prevent the manufacturer from dis
posing of his product. They also claimed
that it would prevent mans securing
liquor for his own personal use.
Both Of these contentious were untrue
and unfounded, but, in order to cut the
ground from under this proposition the
league has adopted two amendments
The first provides that the measure
shall not be construed to prevent the sale
at wholesale by a manufacturer of the
product of his own establishment for de-
livery outside of territory made dry" I'M
der this measure.
The second provides that the measure
shall not be construed to prevent the de-
livery to an individual of liquor mot sold
in violation of the acD intended for the
personal use of an individual his family
or his bona fide guests.
'In our judgment the bill meant this
anyhow, and by saying so in plain English
we explode these objections.
They say we are too strenuous. Sup
pose you were in an argument with some
individual and he had you down and was
sitting on you and choking you. would you
take pains to be polite and initiate AL
phonse and CASTOR" as you invited him to
find a more comfortable seat
1T is ridiculous. You would break his
hold upon your throat If it was in you to
do it, and if his hand was lacerated or even
his head caved in during the process you
would insist that it was his fault for at
lacking you and not yours for defending
yourself.
THE liquor traffic in Maryland has the
and the decent citizenship down.
sitting on them. choking the life out Of
Christian enterprises.
I'VE will argue with the liquor traffic ac-
cording to parliamentary formulas when
our fundamental rights are recognized and
we are placed on an equal footing. but our
first move will be to break its strangle hold
And we will do it with any means which
the traffic drives us into employing. and If
the consequences are unfortunate to the
liquor interests or to the big business in
terests which are in alliance with them.
the fault is theirs and not ours.
Il want now to talk little while direct
to the liquor men. especially the brewers
and distillers, because the saloonkeepers
are not expected TO have much sense as a
class and fully justify the expectation.
| can be perfectly frank now because the
train has passed your station. so it is too
late for you to get Off
"0f all the gullible, foolish easy marks
that ever came down the pike the brew
ers and dstillers are il.
sstIf tho Iaat I oa;aIatura NJ MarvIand had