The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-02-07
GET OFF EARTH
4, s. |. CHALLENGE
To KING ALCOHOL
IN. Z. A. Specially

w eStSTVi4lS, o., teD. 0.-CeC the
earth.
That's what the Anti Saloon League
is saying TO King Alcohol now that
the United States has adopted national
prohibition
And Westerville, Onio, center of the
system that has spread prohibition
propaganda till one by one the states
have fallen into line, is likely to be
the center of the world campaign.
For in Westervi1le are located the
headquarters of the Anti Saloon Lea
que. In Westerville are all the records
| that have been compiled in the IS
years the league has been fighting
John Barleycorn. In Westerville is
the huge printing plant which turns
out the various publications and mil
lions of pieces Of propaganda and
highly Systemized forms that the lea
que uses in it's work.
System. That is what has put over
national prohibition. Organization
down to the last detail.
Other organizations have fought the
liquor traffic on purely moral grounds
and considered it improper to use po-
litical methods.
The Anti Saloon league has fought
the battle along political and economic
lines. And it has kept records of
members and workers and candidates
for office and conditions that excel
the famous Tammany system in New
York
League Dictates To Mighty in Politics
1t has dictated to members of state
legislatures. to congressman and gov
ernors, It has maintained pad lobby
lists who have fought the devil with
fire" as they express it. 1t has pre-
scented arguments which have won big
business to the belief that absence of
liquor means greater and better pro-
duction. It has won church members
who would not forsalSe the tickets their
fathers had voted-first to help in get
ting dry candidates on their tickets
and next to vote for dry candidates
regardless of ticket.
The leagues burea uof political in
formation rivals that of any political
organization in attention to detail. 1t
covers personal beliefs of candidates
for public office throughout the coun-
try and of men who have been candi-
dates. These records are maintained
in every state and duplicates kept in
Westerville. They are carried down
through county and city and every
ward and twonship organizations till
fn any community in the United tSates
the Anti Saloon league can put it's
fingers at once on the men who are
for it and know at once who is influ-
entail is against it.
From its Washington bureau the
league has had prompt information as
to the .'leanings" of each congressman
in doubt.
How congressman Were Brought
To Time.
How the system works in the case
of congressman is told hy rncst
Cherrington, general manager of pub
licity:
IF a congressman showed o dispo-
sition to be friendly with tho liquor
interests we were at once notified by
the Washington bureau, principally
that is what we have a Washington
bureau for.
The a. S. l.. superintendent in that (
congressman's state was notified at
once and looked the hayward one up !
in his records. The record shows the /
congressman's attitude throughout his !
campaign and after. If he had good I
record we tried to show him that he .
was on the wrong track, that he was
going against public opinion. Our lob
byists got to work on him to whip
him into line.
IF we couldn't make sure of him. ,
then the machinery for his defeat was |
set in motion, and our records for his I
state showed just who we gould work /
through in accomplishing this. That's !
the way we got Joe Cannon.
No Time Wasted On Sterile Fields. |
I'VE never waste effort trying 70 |
elect dry in territory that is hope !
lessly wet. There are other ways than !
the direct attack. Remember how |
Marshal Foch was operated?
Anti Saloon league Sunday in the !
churches has been one of the greatest !
aids. Speakers for the league have !
occupied the pulpits in every church /
in every city where we were observing I
the day. After their appeal, pledge !
cards are passed around. each with a
pencil attached, and there a great part !
of the funds of the league are obtained. /
This. too, has given the league annual (
revision of its lists of church sup +,
pOrters.
This work in the churches has been /
so complete as to involve the classify !
ing of the church voters by political |
affiliations as we'll as by denomina |
tions, and whether wet dry or doubt |
full.
There are more than a million per