Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-07-09
AIM T0REPEAL.
LIQUOR LAW At
NEXT SESSION
Concerted Effort to Be Made
BY Foes of Dry Law
in 1922.
FIGHT ON VAN NESS LAW
Is Likely to Be Issue of the
. Coming Election in This
State.
WILSON HAS STATEMENT
Says Anti Saloon Leagues
Sole Endeavor Is to Fight
the Liquor Traffic.
WILSON HAS STATEMENT
[By Evening News Correspondent

IBy Evening News Correspondent.J
TRENTON. July 9.-That deter
mined effort is to be made in the
next legislature for the repeal of the
act is shown by the activities of the
VETS all over the state. They are
lining up their forces vigorously.
even this early in the campaign and
are organizing for the onslaught
against the "drys'' Also they are
preparing to resist any attempt of
the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts and DR..
Howard of the International Reform
League for the repeal of the Hurley
Boxing Act as well as train their
biggest guns against any further ex-
tension or enforcement of the Blue
Laws.
The announcement that former
Governor John w. GriggS of Pater-
son has joined the association against
the prohibition amendment of New
ark and will take active part in its
endeavors. indicates that 1.orth Jer-
sey will do aggressive work. Ex-
Governor Griggs' bitter fight against
the local option bills at legislative
hearings in the past will be remem-
bered. The repeal of the VanNess
enforcement act is the principal aim
of the association. and it will fight
all candidates for the legislature who
will not pledge themselves to vote
for the repeal of this law.
The association has already invad-
ed Monmouth county and claims
that every municipality in the county
will be organized against the Van
Ness law before the September prim-
aries. Other counties will be organ
lied in the same way. A county
chairman will be named in each
county whose duty it will be to lead
the fight in his section under the di-
rection of the State Organization.
With the New Jersey Anti-Saloon
League and the other prohibition
forces determined that this legisla-
ton shall stand. there is every pros
pect that the struggle for the control
of the 1922 Legislature ona athis issue
will be notable one.
NEWARK, July "a. statement
given to the press by William l..
Fish, secretary Of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amend
ment, to the effect that the Anti
Saloon League has imported the
king pin of all fanatics, DR.. Crafts,
into New Jersey" brings sharp
retort from Samuel Wilson, assistant
state superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of New Jersey. Mr..
Wilson says:
Mr.. Fish's statement is very
'fishy'-ir fact, it is rank with un-
truth.
"The Anti-Saloon League has an
efficient force, and is quite able to
attend to its own affairs, and if it
did want help would never think of
calling DR.. Crafts to New Jersey
the league works for results, and
gets them.
"The vets have worn out their
lie-factory trying to hitch up the
Anti Saloon League with all sorts of
fads, fancies and schemes. blue laws,
i-tobacco. anti-Sunday baseball
and anti-mo OWE, and, as Mr.. Fish
now puts it. forty or fifty other So
called moral reforms Now the A.
A. p. A. is mendaciously trying to
tie us up with the anti-prize fight
movement.
without minimizing the import
ance of any other reform, permit
me to say, once for all, to the press
and the public, that
1.-THE Anti-Saloon League, from it's
very beginning, has had but one pur-
pose-'the largest possible present
repression, and the speediest ulti-
mate suppression of the beverage
liquor traffic"
"In working toward that end, we
have, at times, struck at the sa-
looms y-products-gambl and
the disorderly house: but whoever
says that the League is working for
any other cause, object, purpose,
fad, fancy or issue speaks ignorant
ly or untruthfully.
''It is untrue that the Anti-Sa-
loon League brought DR.. Crafts to
New Jersey, has had any conference
with him, or is cooperating with
him in his anti-prize fight agitation
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