The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
VICTORY CONVENTION GOES ON RECORD
Adopted by Convention Of the Antsaloon League
December 10 and 20 1923

ResoIUel: 1. That we give thanks to
Almighty God for His abundant blessings
shoWered upon our favored land. AS we
approach the season when the spirit OF
peace and good will among men again
takes possession of our imaginatiOnS, St1rS
our hearts, and speaks in tones Of friend
ship and brotherhood in the words we ut
ter, we add the memory Of the last cleo
ton to the category Of our national joys.
The overwhelming vote by which this
country supported the prohibition cause
was most gratifying event.
ReSo1Ued: 2. We strongly urge that
our fellow citizens who constitute the
minority of this question now accept this
matter as settled and yield to prohibition
their observance and approval and sup
port it as true Americans should.
ReSolOed: 3. We urge most strongly
that our courts both attorneys and judges,
use their positions to secure adequate
punishment for those who violate the pro-
hibition law and SO perform their duties
as to promote general respect for law
among all classes OF cur citizens.
Eesol0ed: 4. That we heartily endorse
the bill now pending in Congress to in
crease the maximum penalties for the five
offenses defined by the Eighteenth
Amendment; namely: manufacture, sale,
transportation, importation and eXporta-
ton of Intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes. We recommend that the Hi
nois Prohibition. act be amended so as to
increase the minimum punishment Tor
first offenses in the manufacture, trans
portation and sale Of Intoxicating liquors
for beverage purposes in violation OF law.
We further urge in the interest Of pro-
hibition enforcement and in the inter
e IF oil ct 10y
as we'll that states attorneys recon-
mend and the judges impose jail SEN
fences instead of fines upon violators Of
the Illinois Prohibition act, and that
states attorneys indict and prosecute
second offenders under the section of the
law which provides imprisonment i'll the
penitentiary for such offenders. 1t is the
opinion of this body that IN imposing SEN
fences under the prohibition law there
should be less sympathy displayed for the
law violators and more sympathy for the
wives and children or widows and orphans
Of the victims.
PesOZued: 5. Purchasers Of booze are
to be equally cenSured with the CRIMINALS
VINO supply them with liquor. Society
should use its powerful weapon OF social
ostracism against all who still use or
serve Intoxicating beverages OF any sort.
PeeoJved: g. That we pledge ourselves
to use every available means to spread
convincing information among the rising
generation of our land as to the justice,
necessity and benefits of prohibition.
resolUed: T. That we call the atten-
ton of our Illinois people to the fact that
cur minority representation system Of
eIecting the Legislature in this state ac-
counts for the wet majority in the Lower
House. IF Illinois elected the members
of the Lower House. as we do the men,
bers of the State Senate we would have
as large majority in the Lower House as
we have in the Senate. Inasmuch as this
minority provision is a part of our State
Constitution it is difficult matter to cor
rect. Therefore, be 1t TeSoIUed, BY the
Board of Trustees of the Anti-Saloon