The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-12-15
PROHIBITION FIGHT STILL
ON, ASSERTS NICHOLSON
President of Anti-Saloon League
Reminds Toronto Audience
of Much to Do
NOT ON DRESS PARADE
Chief Problem Is to Get to Last
Man With Facts About
Alcohol


Bishop Thomas Nicholson OF Chi
cago. president OF the Anti Saloon
League OF America, i'll speaking at the
Toronto Convention, reminded his
hearers that the fight for Prohibition
is not over yet. Bishop Nicholson
said:
Il have just this word of greeting.
We are not i'll dress parade affair.
We are in the most tremendous strug-
gle, think, that the world has seen
since Christ died on Calvary. We
have had great victories. We have
just ahead OF us greater fighting,
think, than any we have yet gone
through.
AS to the outcome of the counict,
] have no doubt. The great and i'm
mortal Lincoln said, You may fool all
OF the people some OF the time and
some OF the people all of the time but
you can not fool all of the people all
OF the time and the problem. as
see it, the chief problem of the tenn
perancc reform, is to get down to the
last man with the facts. such COM
polling facts as DR.. Saleeby gave you
here yesterday, such compelling facts
rs we have from every state where
Prohibition has been in effect, appeal
TO the common sense of humanity. 1t
is a question of challenging the best
self of every voter and of every man
in every nation and keeping at it long
enough when we shall have a dry
world. That is not an easy task.
Has Some Suggestions
Nov, | have just two suggestions
in these three or four minutes. In the
United States of America | have be-
come convinced that the conflict has
gone lar beyond the question Of
whether we are going to have wine and
beer. 1t is a question OF ability OF de-
mocracy to effectuate, to make good.
{Applause.) We have had long con-
Hict. Ny good wife is the daughter
OF pioneer Methodist preacher in
Kansas who permanently broke his
health stumping that state with John
p, ST John forty years ago to put Pro-
hibition down on Kansas. We have
had a forty-ycar trial there. Nobody
thinks about Kansas going back to-
liquor. (Applause.) They have set
tied policy out there. The trial is
enough.
Now, starting with Maine and with
Kansas, more than generation ago
we went by one process and another
until in the United States of America
we had the overwhelming majority OF
the population living in dry territory
before the Eighteenth Amendment
went into effect at all. Then by the
greatest majority ever recorded for
any one of the nineteen amendments
to the Constitution OF the United
States we put the Eighteenth Amend
ment in the Constitution and then, by
means of Congress, pretty largely
elected on the issue, we put in the en-
forcement acts.
Nov, what happened? Thirty
three organizations, Boosting that they
had a million dollars of money back OF
them, proceeded with the chief argu-
ment that they have to put up, You
never can enforce it, We propose to
see that the thing goes down. i
"Now, what l want to say to my
friends from America and, sooner or
later you will have the same kind OF
fight anywhere you put Prohibition
in, it is question of the validity of de-
mocracy. 1t is question of the power
of government to effectuate itself after
you get law on the statute books,
and it is as great a struggle, it is as