Evening star., 1919-02-23
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Anti-Prohibitionists Propose
+ Demonstrations in Cities
Against Enforcement.
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Correspondence Of The Sunday Star. J

49, NNVtttspoHuehcc oI lue SuDudy otdfJ
e. ~sBALTIMoRE. February ga ma
tional demonstration against the en-
Horcement of the dry amendment" to
tAke place April 1 or July 1, is the
plan the local ti-prohibitionist
forces are working on in co-opera-
Hon with a chain of anti-prohibition
Neagues which have sprung up in
most of the large cities of the
Gountry.
"a statement to this effect was made
aoday by Judge James f. Klecka of
athe peoples court, who is the leader
III the Baltimore "wets" in their fight
Ngainst aridity- The statement takes
on something of the nature of a def
10 the prohibitionists who recently
fhade an effort to force Klecka out of
mis- position in the peoples court by
petitioning the governor to ask for
his resignation. At the meeting of
She Anti-Prohibition League, Judge
rhlecka announced that Gov. Harring-
ton had refused to comply with the
WISHES of his enemies, stating that so
dong as he conducted the business of
the peoples court efficiently his con-
victions on other matters would not
he the basis for his dismissal.
announces Cooperative Movement.
ms'We are now cooperating with the
sbig anti-prohibition leagues of the
fcountry," said Judge Klecka this
morning, with the idea of calling
ssSohVentlon of these organizations at
fsWaShington or Chicago. 1t is our
Hpurpose at this convention to organ
aze national body. with a permanent
ssecretary in Washington. This done,
sour next idea is a national demon
-stration, held simultaneously in the
5plg cities of the nation.
1.-THE demonstration is to take the
.form OF a parade, with men from
.Fyery walk of life represented in the
.line-up-"
spAfter stating that those who had
fceen most active in the prohibition
cause were men of means who could
Ahord to indulge in expensive
rfecreation," Judge Klecka said that
.Hcne of the leaders in the dry cam
Yaign lived like baron in a mansion
and had seven automobiles and eleven
1amily servants. / do not advocate
Nisregard for established law and
1rder." said Judge Klecka. 'I would
Aeprecate anything that might be
Hone against the state or national
government. But our boys overseas
Mreat 'em rough 1 understand that
n body of men may be formed who.
Fith Ku-Klux-klan methods, are
likely TO treat rough certain indi-
Siduals who have made themselves
tbnoxious.'
sExplains Views of Overseas Men.
3Sergt- Harry B. Brown, a former
member of the 313th Infantry, who
MAS wounded three times on the
Ferdun front and has been honorably
a. f6a
I'd what he said were the feelings of
khe overseas men on the subject of
Prohibition. When he left the hos
2itai at Bordeaux to return to this
Sountry. he said, every one of the
1000 patients of the hospital with
whom he had the opportunity to talk
asked him to try to do something to
put an end to prohibition in the
United States before they came back
home.
"Ali of the men get plenty to drink
IN France and there was no drunken
Ness." he continued, "and after our
company had been under shellfire for
thirteen days at Eerdun and in the
Argonne forest, one of my comrades
paid to me: Z see that they are going
10 have prohibition back home We
Nave fought one battle here, and now
re will have to go home and fight
another
Nudge Klecka said that he had learn
Cd from reliable sources that Senator
Oyerman. chairman of the Senate ag-
t1cuItural committee, would recon-
mend to President Wilson, when the
latter returns to this country, the i'm
mediate removal of the ban on brew
fpg beer and near beer. If such
compromise could be effected, he con-
inued,s he believed it would prove
satisfactory to the wet" forces.
Will Be "serious Fight He Says.
1--WE must realize he said, that
we have a serious fight on our hands
Snd that we must be willing to make
some concessions. I believe that we
viii have to become reconciled to do
without whisky. I also believe that If
the average American Is given as good
& grade of beer as that brewed in Ba-
varia he will be satisfied to do with
Cut whisky.
s.sT have travelled all over Europe and
found that only an American, a bum
6r a sick man drinks whisky in Aus
ttia, France or Germany-the Ameri-
can, because he is accustomed to drink
1t; the "bum," because he is addicted
to drinking it, and the sick man, be-
cause it is prescribed for him. If we
ere given a good grade beer here the
average American will be disinclined
to drink whisky, and the government
will take over the distiliing of such
whisky as is needed for medicinal pur-
poses."