Weekly journal-miner., 1915-04-07
CHICAGO DRY IN 1916,
 IS BOAST OF RINEHART

 TUCSON. March 31-"Chicago will be dry after April 3, l9l6," said Geo. F. Rinehart. superintendent of the Chicago Dry Federation. when he was here recently.
 MT. Rinehart recently was called to Chicago from Tucson to take 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 S6.5OO put the state squarely into the dry column. In Chicago he expects much hotter fight but he is perfectly confident that the dry sentiment is strong enough to put it over
 No Child's Job.
 "It is not child's undertaking" he said. There is a territory 3d miles long and seven miles wide, with almost 3,OOOOOO people in it, probably majority of whom have personal liberty notions, and served by about .7152 saloons paying an annual rev enue to the public of S7,l52OOO.
 There are 16O societies and civic bodies and organizations interested in the dry campaign. It is possible that they will raise fund of SlOO,OOO, possibly $2OOOOO, with winch to con duct the fight. But on the other side the whiskey interests will raise S5OOO.OOO or $7,OOO,O00 or whatever they think is needed to defeat 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 is theirs.
 Working Together Now.
 "You can see that we have some problems to solve and some work to do. But we are going to do 1t. The first thing that we did twenty five days ago. when 1 was summoned there, was to get together. For years the different dry organizations have not been able to get along harmoni- ously, but that is all changed. We are working as one force against the common enemy That was one secret of our success ill Arizona, by the way.
 q am perfectly confident of the outcome. The liquor business IS an outlaw. Public sentiment is against i it. What we need to do is to organ ize that sentiment and see that 1t has fair and free chance to express itself.
 Publicity and Organization.
 "We are going to do great work in Chicago. The tract has been cleared for Billy Sunday and he will help us next winter. The newspapers have agreed to fair and free pub lie discussion of the question in their columns, and that is all we ask. Pub icitE, public debate and organiza- ton will result in great victory"
 The fight in Chicago, Rinehart be- lieves, will be the effective means of forcing national prohibition to the front as an issue in 19l6, and at the latest 1920.
 q believe that the attention of the whole country will be so centered on the Chicago contest, he said, that 1t will lead one of the big political par ties to make prohibition national issue in l916. The people are ready for it. They want it. They want chance to stand for it. They want candidates that are for prohibition and not afraid to stand up and be counted. The big fight in Chicago is bound to fire their enthusiasm and l am going to be disappointed if it doesn't lead to the national contest in 19f6. That is the great thing"
 Rinehart Persuaded Bryan.
 It has been stated that Mir Bryan was responsible for the attitude of MT. Rinehart in respect to the de- sirability of the Demoeratic party taking up prohibition in 1916. Those on the inside of politics realize 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 expression to that view.