Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
PROHIBITION ARMY TO MOBILIZE
TO FIGHT REPEAL OF DRY LAW
Recent Wet Political Victories Spur Advo-
Gates of Eighteenth Amendment to
Renewed Efforts at Enforcement.

with cooperating neighborhood or local
units. These committees would not re-
quire paid officials and ordinarily would
not call for elaborate headquarters, save
as special campaigns might make un-
usual demands.
Prom time to time surveys should
be made for the purpose of securing
information about the character and
extent Of local law violations. the fall
ures of local officials, the sources Of
liquor supply and Kindred subjects.
This information should be made avail
able to all dry organizations caring
to have 1t and willing to make good
use of 1t. BY this method the friends
of prohibition throughout the Nation
would be put in touch with one another,
would soon come to be effectively moved
by common impulses and would unitedly
wage the warfare for better enforce
ment.
Committees Autonomous.
1.-THE various committees heretofore
suggested should be autonomous. They
shoul6 provide for their own continued
existence. They should be non-parti-
san. ready to aid any official or party
standing for the right and to oppose
any taking the side of the Illegal liquor
traffic. They should not be controlled
by any other organization.
THE time has come for the launching
of this movement. 1t is q large task
No one organization can do 1t alone.
We are moving forward with the con-
viction that the plan is so sane and
sensible that, since no one claims a
monopoly Of 1t. all friends will join in
putting it into effect
We are confident that this an
nouncement to the Nation that there is
! to be quickly perfected in every sec
ton of the country those local and State
organizations which can function as
herein described, and that they are
to be led by an efficient national COM
m1ttee and chairman, will send a thrill
to every village and hamlet, arouse
hope in every city, and strike terror to
| law violators."
Drys Need Leader.
While the proposal refrains carefully
| from direct criticism of any particular
dry leaders, it is designed to reflect dis
| satisfaction among drys quite generally
/ that the drys have been without a
generalissimo since the death of Wayne
B. Wheeler.
The Anti-Saloon League is but a
shadow Of its former self" Mr.. Stewart,
for years an active prohibition worker,
There has been no little criticism
since the wet wave set in that the dry
forces were mot functioning" Objec-
ton has been raised, moreover, that the
drys were permitting the vets to get a
head start on them in the struggle for
control of the presidential conventions
in 1892. 1t has been protested by
Democratic drys that unless some one
| brought forward an outstanding dry
candidate for the Democratic presiden-
| tial nomination, the wet Eastern lead
ership of the party would nominate a
/ wet candidate by default in 1892.
Third Party Suggested.
| Such a dry organization as proposed,
! it is suggested, might conceivably be
made the nucleus of third party in
| the 1882 presidential campaign If both
major parties should go wet Those
| supporting the plan gave little en-
couragement to this suggestion, how
! ever, although pointing to the recent