The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-15
ANTS TO START
WORLD WAR FOR
PROHIBITION

Cleveland, o., Dec 1.-THE Anti
Saloon League expects to dry the
world
1t plans drastic enforcement law
to be demanded when the states rati-
| ~ the federal amendment and nation
al prohibition becomes settled thing.
The league plans to make prohi-
bition a success in America"
1t favors ANY efficient substitute
for the saloon
The league receives and expends
yearly in it's work more than $1,000
900.
1t gets its money from voluntary
contributions Of individuals, churches
and temperance societies.
Started an idea in the mind of
one man in Ohio in 1887 the league
has become national political power.
Worldwide Program Waits on
America.
discussed all these questions with
Rev. John S. Rutledge, superintendent
Of the Cleveland district, who is in
close touch with national and world
wide activities of the league. Here
are some things Rutledge told me:
AS goes America, So goes the
world was the cry in the recent anti
saloon league convention in Columbus.
Ohio.
Delegates from eleven countries
including India. Bulgaria and Scot
land, told us if We could make a sue
cess of prohibition in America all
other civilized and progressive nations
might eliminate the saloon.
That is the Anti-Saloon League
programme make success of pro-
hibition in the United States. BY
July l next we confidently expect more
than 40 states will have ratified the
federal prohibition amendment Thir-
ty-three states now are dry Ma
tional prohibition of the saloon will
soon be an accomplished fact.
THE Anti-Saloon League, with lis
staff of legal advisers in every state.
will promote observance of~the dry
law by all legal means, such as it
has favored and employed in the past.
This will be All important department
Of its work..
Wayne B. Wheeler, national legal
counsel for the league, has declared
that when the states ratify the fed
eral prohibition amendment the league
will ask the congress to enact a strict
federal prohibition enforcement law.
This statute, as it is now proposed.
will provide for federal enforce
ment commission under the collector
! of internal revenue, with special Off
GERS in sucTkent numbers to carry
out the provisions of the law" he
said
The proposed law would prevent
any person having liquor in his pos
session unless obtained under legal
permit Contraband liquor would, of
course, be subject to seizure
The law desired would prescribe
the alcoholic content of a permissible
beverage. It was said in Columbus
that near beer would come under the
BAN"
Rutledge told me further:
THE Anti Saloon League is a
league of representatives of churches
and societies opposed to the saloon.
1t has state and national units. 1t
has no great membership roll It has
200 persons working under unified
control TO destroy the saloon by po-
litical and legislative methods. Its
supporters are thousands, some of
them drinking men at times.
''Anti-S Saloon League funds come
from direct donations of churches, |
Woman's Christian Temperance
unions and like organizations and from
interested persons who may oppose
the saloon for reasons of their own
Where the Money is Expended !
fThe National Anti-Saloon League /
has an annual revenue in excess OF |
$3.50, 100000 a year, derived from a |
percentage levy on the funds of state |
leagues. The case of Ohio is illus |
trative. This year the gross revenue |
Of the Ohio league will exceed $780, |
600 OF this. 10 per cent goes to the /
national league. This does not ~. |
into account the revenues of the dry |
federation, an organization working |