The sun., 1919-10-10
TOBACCO OPENS
FIGHT AGAINST
FEDERALBAN
Industry Organizes to Es-
cape Fate Which Liquor
Faces.
NAMES W.C.T.U. AS ENEMY
Cites Oregon Petition for In
itiative to Outlaw Gig
arettes After 1920.

The Allied Tobacco League OF
Cincinnati to promote the interests of
the tobacco industry all over the
United States and with the avowed
and special purpose of waging a mill
tant fight against the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union and its cam
paign for a constitutional amendment
prohibiting the growth, sale and use
uf tobacco. According to the an
nouncement of the organization OF
the league issued by the Association
Opposed to National Prohibitions. the
growers, leaf dealers. warehouse men,
manufacturers, jobbers and retailers
of tobacco products. and bankers and
consumers generally who may be in
terested in defending their individual
rights against the activities of anti
tobacco propagandists everywhere"
W. d. Spalding. president of the
Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Exchange.
was elected president. Other officers
are: Charles Whitrock, vice president; ;
William S. Goldenberg, secretary:
George f. Engel. treasurer, and En-
met Orr, official organizer and field
secretary. ID. ii. Gale was named sec
retary of a temporary executive COM
mittee, which includes Emmett Orr,
K. Z. Dundon or Louisville, and DR..
w. A. Gardner of New York. The
league will be Incorporated under the
laws of Kentucky, the greatest tobac-
co growing State in the country, and
the main office will be in Cincinnati.
Subsidiary headquarters will be estab-
nshed in cities of the North, South,
East and West, probably in New York,
San Francisco, Detroit and New Or
leans.
In announcing the formation of the
new organization and it's determination
to fight the w. C. T. U. and prevent
a prohibitory amendment similar to
that obtained by the Anti-Saloon League
the Association Opposed to National
Prohibitions issued the following state
ment:
Unlike the various and multitudinous
efforts made to combat the earlier and
pernicous activities OF the Ant-Saloon
League, which efforts were fruitless to
i
Amendment, the Allied Tobacco League
of America will profit by the experiences
of others and will meet the campaign
for an anti-tobacco constitutional
amendment on equal grounds and with
full preparedness. The W. c. T. u, &C
cording to a despatch received to-day
+ from Oregon, has caused to be filed
with the Secretary of State of that State
an initiative petition TO make unlawful
the sale. use or possession of cigarettes
in Oregon after January l, 1921. 1t will
be given ballot title. The measure
would fix the maximum fine for the first
offence at 500 for the second 5000,
and the third and subsequent offences
would be punishable by Jail terms of
thirty days besides the fines. 1t is
just such measures as these that the
new Allied Tobacco League will fight.
THE w. G. T. u. is following the
exact programme of the Anti-Saloon
League in its earlier campaigns 1t will
not at present attempt any legislation
or ordinances against tobacco in to-
bacco growing States. 1t will. however,
go into States like Nebraska, Kansas,
Iowa and Maine, whose people are not
particularly interested In the growth,
manufacture, &c, of tobacco but in its
use. and where the voters will not
awaken to the menace In their midst
until the constitutional amendment
against tobacco arrives"