The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-07-20
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS AND COM
MENTS ON MEN AND
MEASURES.
DRY" Prospect Striking Chill to New
Yorkers-Figuring Possible
Losses.
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.

! New York, N Y, July 16-Various
gentlemen who thought they favored
prohibition are not so sure of it now.
They think that what they favor is
| temperance. With many other New
Workers horrible scare has been
thrown into them by the possibility,
if not probability, of bone-dry legis-
lation. They did not know what this
meant in business way to New
York until suddenly they were con-
I fronted by the facts through the ac-
ton of Congress.
Real estate men predict a frightful
slump in real estate in the metropo-
lis If we have national prohibition.
They predict, too, great difficulty in
fashioning budget that will stand
the test. Retail merchants fear a
heavy contraction in business. Hotel
men are doleful and the Theatrical
people say it means little short of
disaster to many of their enterprises.
No part of the country would be
hit so hard by prohibition as New
York. The floating population of the
city is estimated variously at from
100000 to 100000 persons. The
variety of entertainment the city Of
fers is great attraction. Men and
women who are inclined to be strait
laced at home unbend in New York
They want to see the sights of the
great city, its lively resorts, its col
orful sides, its bright lights. For the
few days they are in the city they are
willing to be unconventional Women
are eager to visit places they have
read about or heard about. Men too
They may cheese-paring at home, but
they are inclined to splurge in New
York. This floating population
brings hundreds of millions of dollars
to New York annually, which flows
through innumerable channels, those
of hotel, restaurant, saloon, theatre,
m1linary shop, dry goods emporium
and the vast multitude of establish
ments that dot the city and make up
its many sided life, and which in
turn give value to many other prop
critics and employment to many per-
sons.
l Washington, D. c., July 1.-THE
Anti-SaloOn League of America,
which has conducted persistent lob
by In the Capitol for years, will be
investigated. It's leaders will be
called to tell where they get their
money and about their methods of
campaigning.
The forcing to the front Of the
"bone-dry" proposition at a time
when the country demands action on
important war measures has focused
attention on the activities of the
leagues representatives in Washing
ton. These men, known by every
Congressman in Washington, are:
THE LEAGUES REPRESENTA-
TIVES.
| The Rev. DR.. James Cannon, Jr..
of Richmond, Va; DR.. Arthur ]. Bar
ton, of Waco, Tex; Wayne B. Wheel
er, Columbus, Ohio; and the Rev.
Edwin G. Dinwiddie, of Washington.
These men form what is known as
the National Legislative Committee
of the Anti-Saloon League of Ameri-
ca" They are to be seen in the
Marble Room Of the Senate, on the
very threshold of the chamber, con-
sulting with Senators while bills are
being considered.
They threaten congressman with
back-fire movements If the latter do
not come to the scratch on all i'm
portant anti-liquor matters. While
other lobbyists dodge about the Capt.
toll trying to keep their presence a
secret except to few, the anti
saloon worker goes into equally the
Senator's private rooms or to public
places to give him orders. Not one
word has single one of them spoken
against the barbarities of East st.
Louis, or other portions of the coun-
] try and they are Ministers of the Cos