The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-05
The Association Opposed to Ma
tiOnal Prohibition Make
Such a Charge.
A TWO MONTHS INQUIRY
This to Determine If There is
Concerted Campaign Under
Way to Have AntinicOtine
Laws Enacted.

New York, Aug AFTER a two
months inquiry conducted in this city
Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere
to determine whether there was a
concerted campaign to bar the use of
tobacco now that liquor has gone by
the boards, the Association Opposed
to National Prohibition has issued a
statement charging that the Women's S
Christian Temperance Union was
backing a movement to have antinico-
tine laws enacted in every state in the
union.
The w. G. T. U. will celebrate its
5Oth anniversary five years hence and
that organization is hopeful of having
congress submit constitutional
amendment before March 20, 1914,
its semi-centennial, forbidding the
cultivation, sale, use or export of the
weed for smoking or chewing pur.
poses, the statement charged. The
"one million drive" begun last March
by the white ribboners, it is alleged
has for its object the crushing of the
demon nicotine and to this end the
nti-prohibitionists say 100000 will
be expended ostensibly on Child well
fare, health and morality" "edu-
cation and information" and other
propa ganda methods by means of the
churches and public schools
The Association Opposed to Ma
tionsl Prohibition further charges TIE
w. c. T. L. With planning to finance
its campaign against tobacco without
appealing directly for funds or nam.
ing the purposes for which the money
is to be expended. In support OF this
ii asserts that already, "in the guise
of public school recitation books
which flagrantly violate the sanctity
of home and filial DEVOTION" fathers
who use tobacco are portrayed as
filthy and unfit for childish ca
resses."
James Arthur Seavy managing di-
rectors Of the association, in explain
],
said it was started ito clear up wheth-
er or not the same professional and
paid prohibitionists who foisted the
eighteenth amendment upon the ma
tion without a popular vote. were be-
hind the tobacco crusade, despite their
eager denial"
The investigation disclosed, said
the statement. that bill has been in
troduced in the Georgia legislature
to prohibit the use OF tobacco in any
form and that measures have been
taken in the legislatures OF other
Southern and Western states to put a
ban on cigarettes.
The Anti-Saloon League is also ac-
cused OF activity aiding the w c. r.
L. crusade and of having indorsed the
slogan. Nicotine Next"
DR.. II Charles Green, OF Philadel-
phia. was said to have protested to
the public school authorities of his
city permitting, he said. the w. c. T.
L. to establish medal contests and of
fer money awards TO pupils for the
best essays on the "viciousness" of
the tobacco habit.
In Evanston, H., where are locat-
ed rest cottages" the national head
quarters of the w. c. T. u, former
home of Frances y. willard. founder
OF the organization and now the home
of Anna Adams Gordon, the present
president. Thousands upon thousands
OF copies of the pamphlet, Nicotine
Next" by Frederick w Roman. b H,
PHI. D., professor OF economics at Sy-
racuse university, filed one storage
room which, II was said. was guard
ed as carefully as a safe deposit
vault. No one but an intimate in
slider, 1t was stated, was permitted to
know tl.at the w. c. t. u plans
shortly to food the country with
these pamphlets. Meanwhile, vast
quantities of other kinds of anti-to-
bacco literature are being distributed.
II Is asserted.
IN lsSn 900 RaIes Consunad