Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1920-01-29
CAMPAIGN FOR PROHIBITION
EXTENSION BEGINS JANUARY Is
IN SIX SOUTHERN STATES
Success Forecasted by Prominent Citizens Head
: ing Movement in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi South Carolina and Tennessee
Quotas Total 81, 975,0OO for Enforcement.

done depends almost entirely upon
the moral and financial support and
cooperation of those who have made
possible the results SO far achieved.
Calling to the South.
1.-The Prohibition forces are calling
now to the South to finish the job.
Here, where Prohibition was Graded,
is the place to set the pace and blaze
the way for the balance of the nation
and the world.
This campaign does not propose to
interfere with individuals; it is -,wag-
ing no war on tobacco; it is driving
only toward enforcement of the law
already on the statute books and the
enactment of others that may be
necessary to. reinforce them
1T is intended primarily as a cam
paign of education. Literature to
] counterfeit the propaganda of the vets
lis being disseminated, meetings will
be held and dry candidates will be
supported against those of the vets
Tor every political office from presi-
dent, downward.
. Officers charged with enforcement
or the Prohibition laws will be en-
couraged and upheld so long as they
I'LL NAly anu lnOSe WHO are
lax will be vigorously opposed at the
polls"
In addition to the great work of
law enforcement and combating the
liquor propaganda in this country
there is the greater task of carrying
the war on liquor traffic into other
! countries.
World Dry BY 1890.
World Prohibition by 1880 is the
aim of the dry forces.
Routed from America, many of the
d1st1llers and brewers are planning to
resume their business in China and
other countries where the LIQUOR traf-
TIC still holds sway. Already liquo.
runners are preparing to bring LIQUOR
into this country by airplane from
Cuba, Mexico and the West Indies.
All these countries and those of
Europe and Central and South Amer.
lea are calling to US for aid. We must
see that they are not disappointed
They see what we have Accomplished
here and they are looking to M To
show them the way.
TO successfully combat the efforts
OF the liquor interest at home. to heed
the call for help from China and the
other countries where the LIQUOR in
| terests are seking to become intrencb.
ed and also to carry Prohibition to the
entire world by the time set-19s0-
VIII require a. large expenditure Of
funds.
Necessity Is Obvious.
Sd. J. CAN'T, recently nlacaA g.
charge of Prohibition enforcement in
the South, declares the Government
appropriation for this purpose for 1000
is woefully insufficient and that II
will be impossible for the federal COW.
eminent to take over all the resnon.
sibility
There is no doubt that this cam.
paign for funds, with its purnoses
clearly understood and the pressing
necessity for its success obvious will
receive the active support of q large
percentage of the people of the south
ut vitality concerns the bpsiness
man from whose employees the tenn.
tation of strong drink has been r..
moved, and it also vitality concarns
the mothers OF tAis country, whoao
sons. now growing to manhood viii
never know the debasing influences of
the saloon"