The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-21
vOLsTEAD CHANGE
WILL Be FOUGHT
OPPONENTS OF PROHIBITION
AMENDMENT PLANNING AN
Ti-BEER BILL CAMPAIGN
Society Will Enter Home Fields OF
Senators Who Vote Fer Bill And
Present Matter TO Peo-
pie Direct

WdShingt0n-The troubles or MT.
Volstead and the proponents Of the
+antibeer' bill will be far from ended
when that measure Is enacted into law,
according to Captain William 81. Stay
ton, founder and executive vice presi-
dent of the National Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
who In statement Sunday, said that
IL the bill passes the senate and is
signed by President Harding, his SOC
iety will Immediately bring suit to test
its constitptionality, and will carry the
case to the supreme court, IL 1t becomes
necessary.
This litigation Captain Stayton an
nounced, twill be In charge Of a cSm-
mittee of prominent lawyers, doctors
and laymen who are members of the
association. After the law has been
declared unconstitutional, the associa-
ton will go into the districts of the
senators and congressman who voted
for it and will point out to their con-
stituents that they were duly warned
of the unconstitutionality of the bill,
and that In spite of the warning and
under the lash of the Antisaloon league,
they sacrificed the Constitution of the
United States and voted improperly"
Captain Stayton announced that his
association Is forming state and local
branches throughout the United States.
with offices conveniently located in
large cities, and that In addition 1t Is
conducting huge mail campaign from
its principal offices at Washington.
EVERY one Of our offices is humming
with activity" he stated. 1--WE have al
ready absorbed the memberships of
several of the smaller liberal societies
that have been formed in various parts
Of the country during the past few
years, and are this fall launching ma
tion-wide campaign, which we hope
will crystalline and make potent the
widespread and rapidly increasing SEN
timent against prohibition
According to Captain stayton, the
present membership of 100000 only
marks the beginning of the work Of the
association. He expects that more
than million voters will be enrolled
by the end of the year, and said that
the necessary machinery is now being
prepared to organize this voting
strength into an effective machine for
combating Antisaloon league candi-
dates and influence.
The literature of the association an
nounces that it Is "a nationwide soct-
ETY. of reputable citizens who are work
ing to repeal the Volstead law, to
curb fanatcism and rule by the minor
ity, and to restore liberty, prosperity
and self-respect to America" and that
brewers and distillers are debarred
from participating in its campaign
The association does not advocate the
return of the saloons.
Among its prominent members are 7.
Dewitt Cuyler, Henry e. Drayton, DIR.
Charles d. Hart, the Rev. Archibald
Campbell Knowles, DIR. Collier #. Mar
ton, DIR. Charles B. Penrose, DR.. J. N.
Beaver and William Jefferson Guern-
sey of Philadelphia; Stuyvesant Fish,
Charles Sabin, Archibald B. Roosevelt,
Kermit Roosevelt, Harrison Grey Fiske,
Vincent Aston and Albert FL. After
bury of New York; r. L. Agassiz, L.
A. Coolidge and Charles S. Rackemann
of Boston; General Felix A. Agnus, DIR.
julius Friedenwald and Waldo New
conner of Baltimore; John A. Roebling
and DIR. Hudson NJ. Aximo of New Jer-
sey; William P. Emo of Washington
and other equally well-known men and
women throughout the United States.