Williston graphic., 1919-01-30
INTERESTS BEHIND
WET ADVERTISING
HOTEL AND>REAL ESTATE MEN
DECLARED TO BE BACK OF
STATEMENTS

new 1Ofk, NeW 1Ofk-1ue ASSO-
citation Opposed to National Prohi-
bition, which recently hestitated TO
tell representative of The Chris
tian Science Monitor just who was
back of it's large advertisements urg
ing protection of personal rights" !"
warning against Bolshevism, and 9TH
erwise describing the alleged ills
which prohibition would inf1ict upon
the people Of the United States, has
now thrown off its mask, majority
of hotel men and certain real estate
interests are revealed as hackers.
The association, originally active
in attempts to ward off ratification
of the Federal Prohibition Amend
ment, is evidently the thing upon
which the brewers and distillers are
fixing their hopes for something to
turn up against prohibition. The as
sociation is now planning campaign
for the repeal of the amendment, or
or for an attack upon it's constitu-
tionality in the courts.
To this end every hotel association
in the country is being provided with
petitions for circulation among hotel
patrons. Civic, patriotic, commercial
and other organizations will be urg-
ed to join this back-firing campaign,
while the lawyers employed by the
association will try to find some basis
upon which they can drag into the
courts an issue already approved by
the representatives Of the people in
nearly all the state.
Now the chief cause for the pro-
tests from hotel men is their belief
that the loss Of the liquor business
will cut down their own revenues to
an extent justifying the protests.
On this point the Anti-Saloon
League has many records, Of which
the following are typical:
]. A. Atkinson, president of the
Rocky Mountain Hotel Association:
"The hotel men of Colorado have
learned that the most prosperous year
in their history was the boozeless
year of 1915, the first under prohibi-
ton. Never was there such a tourist
trade, never was more money spent
and never were people more happy
and enthusiastic over Colorado;
Ed c. Berry, proprietor of the Ho-
tel Berry, Athens, Ohio: "In my an
swer to your question as to whether
hotel can be operated successfully
without a bar, let me answer you by
telling you that Hotel Berry has been
running for just rs years without the
selling of liquor and has made mon
ey and been one of the most success
full hotels in this part Of the State
Not only have we run strictly tenn
perance hotel, but we have actively
engaged in all the temperance move
ments and have suffered no loss of
business from such action. The trav-
cling men of today as rule do not
require the bar, nor would they pat
ronize it if it were open to them. l
find the sentiment among them rap
idly changing, and the majority of
them are anti-saloon men,"
In answer to the question, What
has been the effect of prohibition on
hotel trade? the following replies
were received: Oh.
From the Governor of Arizona:
"Hotel trade unexcelled, cots in bed
rooms, corridors and roofs all win
ter"
From the Governor of Colorado:
"Hotel trade over the State has not
been injured" e..
From the Governor of North Da-
kota: 81 cannot say with any GER
tainty about this. Where all are dry
l do not see where it would give ad-
vantage to any, or disadvantage"
From the Governor Of Utah: ''The
hotel trade continued good all last
year (1917 but am told it is not
so good this year, due not to prohibi-
tion, but to falling off in the tour