The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-12-24
FANATICS and RADICALS
CHARGED WITH PUTTING
PROHIBITION OVER


PROHIBITION over
Why should the Anti-Saloon League
OF America be so active today? By
way OF answer to this question MIR.
}. K. Breedin, Superintendent of the
South Carolina Anti-Saloon League
has requested publication of the fol,
lowing statements:
First, some 500 distillers in this
country have pledged the entire val
uaIiof OF their plants, something over
one billion dollars to prove the pro-
hlbltion amendment Unconstitutional.
Second, The National Association
opposed to Prohibition, by the most
sinister methods of propaganda, is
working to defeat National Prohibit
ton. The Association claims to be
composed of individuals who have no
direct relation whatever with the
liquor traffic in any way. They are
sending broadcast throughout the
States a strong appeal against prohi-
Dltlon, combined with request for
financial support for fighting same,
very extensively. They have their
representatives in factories, going
from bench to bench among the labor
ing men asking them to sign pro-
test against National Prohibition and
TO pledge their financial support for
carrying on the propaganda in it's
interest. Again, they are sending rep-
resentatives into the foreign sections
holy speaking workers into tho uoly
sections and so forth-telling the
foreigners that prohibition has been
put over by few fanatics and radicals
and Will not last long and that they
need not pay any attention to prohibi
ton laws as they will never be en-
forced. Owe have found that when
foreign speaking prohibition work
ers have been sent among their re-
spective peoples telling them that
prohibition is now a part of the law
of the land and of the Constitution
which they sWore to support when
they became American citizens. and
leaving literature with them printed
IN their own language showing the
benehcent social and economic results
of prohibition, that this wet propa-
ganda is efficiently ov'ercome.)
The liquor traffic is now going into
the District of every Representative.
both State and National, who voted
dry to defeat them in the primaries
ana elections and cnlt up in their
places representatives pledged to sup
port wine and beer amendment.
The supporters Of the Ant-Saloon
League, and prohibition folk general
ly, will be the worst ingrates if thew
DO not rally to the defense of these
men who have given us State and Ma
tlonal Prohibition and protect them
from brewery influence.
IL answer to the objection that the
FeFcral Government will enforce the
National Prohibition Law, the amend
ment itself provides for concurrent en-
torcement end the designation "con-
current was put in the Amendment
at the lnSIstence of the Southern Rep
resentatves who sought to protect
States Rights at this point, the idea
Of being that the Federal Government
should establish parent law which
will be conformcd to by the States
Legislators; and that the States them
selves shall enforce their own laws so
enacted, the Federal Government step
ping in only upon failure Of the State
to gaapplc with the situation.
1t is argued that th- Federal Gov
ernmcnt has appropriated two million
dollDrs to enforce Prohibition. That
is about forty thousand dollars to a
'pI''It VII iH average, Win very nttlo
for each county when the calculation
is made on the basis of the number
OF counties in the United States. and
particularly when you think of the
supreme obligation Of the Government
to use strong measures in those Cities '
and States which have always been
wet and which are now only dry to the !
extent of the available supply.
1t is generally known that through |
out the nation the great organization
which has led the fight for prohibition
and the measures OF enforcement is |
the Anti-Saloon League of America. |
This is not said in disparagcment Of
the extraordinary efforts of compan-
ion organization, but the famous letter
from President Wilson to Bishop Can
non, Chairman of the Legislative Com
mittec Of the Anti-Saloon League of
America, recalls that ac every stage
the AntiSaloon League held the posi-
tion of recognized leadership There
is today the same need for intelligent,
progressive and resourceful leadership
in this matter as there was during the
skirmishes in Congress.
j. X. Brcedin,
Manning, S. G..