New-York tribune., 1919-06-23
Restaurant Keepers Plan
Test and Call Meeting
to Decide on Continuing
Sale of Wines and Beers
Drys Ready to Counter
Foes of Prohibition Ask
That Next Monday Be
Observed as Protest Day

Opposing forces in the prohibition
fight plan to take decisive action this
week
The vets, assuming that President
Wilson may not interfere to prevent
the eEtc>cement of prohibition on July
/, expect to resort to legal tactics.
The drys announce that they are pre-
pared to combat any eleventh-hour OBJ
struction in the form of an injunction.
J. j. Cavanagh, president of the So
ciety of Restaurateurs, announced that
his organization has called a special
meeting to be held in the rooms of the
Hotel Association, 334 Fifth Avenue,
on Wednesday. The purpose is to act
on the advice of William R. Hurst, the
society's attorney, who has recon-
mended that the restaurants of the
city continue to sell wine and beer
after July in spite of prohibition. Mr..
Cavanagh said test case probably
junction would be resorted to to delay
the immediate enforcement of prohibi-
ton.
Rely on Superior Court
"a great many Of the best restau-
of wine and beer, and depend upon
the result of court action to guide
them later" said Mr.. Cavanagh. "Our
legal advice is that we should con-
tinue business as usual. We are sat
isfed that if the July 1 prohibition
gets to the Supreme Court it will be
declared unconstitutional"
"Bosh!" exclaimed William M. An
derson, state superintendent Of the
Anti-Saloon League, concerning a ques-
tion as to any chance of preventing
l:1
roar of defiance against prohibition"
he added, "has scaled down to a squeak
of despair"
Officials of the National Association
Opposed to Prohibition, 10 West Forty
fourth Street, announced that vets
throughout the country will be asked
to observe next Monday as anti-prohi-
btion day, and that all vets will wear
daisies in their buttonholes or hats.
The plan was suggested by Albert j.
Wick, Of Stanhope, N. j., a contractor,
and was Immediately adopted by the
association. The proclamation" fix
ing next Monday as "Daisy Day" says:
Text of Proclamation
"Since in late June the daisy, which
Chaucer called the eye Of the day. is
in bloom all over the country, Mr.. Wick
proposes that all prohibit onists
all defenders Of personal libberty, all
who are opposed to the natural and in
strained by constitutional amendment
women as we'll as men-wear a daisy
no bunch of daisies as a protest
against the revival of tch-burning
tendencies in this republic.
"Anybody who bbelieves in the prin-
cipes for which the soldiers of the
American Revolution fought must be
unalterably opposed to the eighteenth
amendment. Anybody who demands the
rights and privileges of American citi-
zenship, guaranteed and safeguarded
by the first ten amendments to the Con-
stitution must repudiate, in anger that
is furnace hot, the eighteenth amend
ment. If the first ten amendments to
our Constitution live, the eighteenth
amendment must die"
Wet Claims Derided
Speaking at the morning service of
seventh Street, yesterday, Mr.. Ander-
son said:
"The brewers claim that the Presi-
dent will yet save them. We trust
that he has learned by this time that
his advisers, Secretary Tumulty and
Samuel Gompers. deceived him into in
juring himself, his influence and the
Stanulng OF mis- party. He will return
shortly, and expects to make a tour of
the country. We believe that he must
realize that pleas for the support of
the league of nations covenant on the
ground of idealism and morality will
hardly be strengthened by another at
tempt to prolong the life of the Ger
man brewery traffic which stands con-
victed of helping the imperial German
government, and which is a foe to
everything ideal, moral and sacred.
"1f the President should make fur
ther effort in behalf of beer and wine
it will help the cause ultimately lust
as his beer and wine recommendation
to Congress shocked the moral ele-
ment awake and kicked it's representa-
tives together.
"The demonstrations Of protest
planned by the liquor traffic have only
demonstrated the futility of their re-
sistance. The Madison Square Gar
den meeting was a frost. 1t cost to
work up from S5 to $40 head for the
attendance present, which was grossly
overestimated by most of the New
York papers except The Tribune. The
New York papers carried the report
that 10000 to $4,000 persons were in
the Baltimore parade of protest. but
the actual count showed only some
thing over 5000, with ninety-nine SOL
diers. who were paid S. apiece to
march,"