The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03

printed practically in full, and paral
throwing additional light on the pre-
Evening Times article is as follows:
Eleven hundred-odd men and wom-
zen. mostly men, listened to Captain
William II. Stayton OF Washington,
describe the aims OF the anti-Prohi-
bition movement OF which he is the
sponsor. at a mass meeting in Majes-
tic Theater, Sunday evening
Captain Stayton made it plain that
the object of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment does not
include the rehabilitation OF the open
saloon. He said that the association
does not aim to remove the ban from
hard" liquor.
Indeed, the name OF the association
is misnomer, Captain Stayton said,
for the object to be accomplished Is
the repeal OF the Volstead act.
with the Volstead act off the
books" he said, "the Eighteenth
The following relative to the Asso
ment appeared in the Illinois State K
Washington, ID. c., May IA ma
tional organization with many promi-
nent men already on its membership
list, has been formed to bring about
the repeal of the National Prohibition
Amendment. The headquarters are in
Washington. The roster has slowly
grown from nucleus of 100 TO l00,-
900, chiefly professional and business
men.
Leaders in the program have work
ed out a definite program in attacking
the amendment. They say they in
tend to build an organization includ-
ing citizens of every state, who will
use their influence toward liberalizing
the liquor laws. Their plan is to fol-
low the methods of the AntiSaloon
League, which was largely instru-
mental in causing National Prohibi-
ton. The states which refused to
ratify the Prohibition Amendment or
did it only after it was apparent that
the amendment would become opera
tive without their ratification, are be-
ing organized first, but the pilots OF
the movement profess to believe that
they will also enlist a powerful fol-
lowing in the states where Prohibi-
ton existed many years before the
nation went dry"
Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey,
New York and Illinois are being
thoroughly canvassed. Already a
number Of well-known professional
and business men in New York and
Philadelphia have joined the organi-
cation. which is to be known as the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment. In New Jersey a state
wide campaign for members is just
under way, with headquarters at
Newark. A special drive in New
York state is projected for this month.
Fee Is One Dollar
w. H. Stayton, once an officer IN
the navy, now president of the Balti-
more Steamship company, is the
managing vice president of the asso-
citation, the members OF which sign
a statement to the effect that they
favor the repeal of the Prohibition
Amendment and promise to support,
in normal conditions, candidates for
the legislature and Congress who
openly stand for the repeal of the
Volstead law. This is the only initial
obligation attached to membership
except the payment of an annual fee
of 81. The rules of the organization
make brewers and distillers ineligible.
The purposes of the movement
were stated as follows:
ITO get the Volstead act out of the
law and keep it out.
ITO oppose the passage of similar
tyrannical laws, and to endeavor to
have the enforcement of the Eight
eenth Amendment, so long as it re-
mains in force, left to the people of
the several states under the concur
Sent clause.
ITO work patiently, lawfully, fairly