The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-04-02
CH|CAGO WILL BE DRY FIN 1916. SO SAYS
 l. r. RINEHART
Arizona Prohibition Leader, Starting
 Campaign There, Confident of the, Outcome.


 Chicago will be dry after April 8. 1916,'' said George F. Rinehart, su- perintendent of the Chicago Dry Fed eration, when he was in Tucson re- gently.
 MT. Rinehart was recently called to Chicago from Tucson to make charge of the campaign to make the Windy City also dry.
 He was in charge of the move ment to secure prohibition in Ari- zona and with a campaign fund of only $6,500 put that state squarely into the dry column. In Chicago he is perfectly confident that the dry sentiment is strong enough to put it over.
 No chId's Job.
 '1t is not a child's undertaking" he said. There is a territory 30 miles long and seven miles wide, with almost 3,OOO.0OO people in it. probably a majority of whom have personal liberty notions. and served annual revenue to the public of $7,162, ,00O.
 There are 16O societies and civic bodies and organizations interested in the dry campaign. It is possible that they will raise a fund of $100,- 00O, possibly $200,0OO, with which to organize the fight But on the oth- CT side the whiskey interests will raise $5,OOO,OOO or $7,00O,O00 or whatever they think is needed to de feat the proposition. The whiskey people have control of politics in that great city, and have had control so long that they feel the political machinery si theirs.
 Working Together Now.
 You can see that we have some problems to solve and some work first thing that we did twenty-five days ago, when I was summoned there, was to get together. For years the different dry organizations have not been able to get along har- moniously, but that is all changed. | We are working as one force against the common enemy That was one secret of our success in Arizona, by the way.
 T am perfectly confident of the outcome. The liquor business is an outlaw. Public sentiment is against it. What we need to do is to organ ize that sentiment and see that it has a fair and free chance to express itself.
 Publicity and Organization.
 we are going to do a great work in Chicago. The track has been cleared for Billy Sunday and he will have agreed to fair and free pub lie discussion of the question in their columns, and that is all we ask Publicity, public debate and orr ganization will result in a great vic tory"
 The fight in Chicago, MT, Rine- hsft believes. will be Athe effective means of forcing national prohibit ton to the front as an issue in 1916, and atzthe latest 1920
 T believe that the attention of the whole country will be SO cen tered on the Chicago contest" he said, that 1t will lead one of the big political parties to make prohibit tion a national issue in 1916. The people are ready for 1t. They want it. They want a chance to stand for it. They want candidates that are for prohibition and not afraid Ito fight in Chicago is bound to fire their enthusiasm and I am going to be disappointed if it doesn't lead ito the national contest in 1916 That is the great thing
 Rinehart Persuaded Bryan
 It has been stated that MT. Bryan wes responsible for the attitude of l MT R1nehart in respect to the de- | sirability of the Democratic party taking up prohibition in 1916. Those | on the inside of politics realze that | it is just the other way around. It | was on the vigorous insistence of MT. | Rinehart that the Democratic party | must take up this great issue that | the Commoner began to give expres- sion to that view.