The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-06-01
ANNUAL MEETING OF ANTESAL00N LEAGUE
HEARS CHEERING REPORTS ON YEARS WORK

time make it dangerous for representa-
tives or officials to treat lightly their oathS
of office or openly disregard the laws they
are elected to enforce.
ReSolUed, That copies of this expression
Of appreciation be sent to our representa-
tives and senators and other officials who,
in the Judgment Of the executive COM
mittee, should receive same.
RESOLUTION NUMBER FOUR
Whereas, In the work of the League, SO
difficult and delicate, we are having in
creasing cooperation on the part of re-
ligious, and reform organizations, and
many representative Women's associa-
tons; be it
ReSoIUed, That the state board of trus-
tees express to such bodies our gratitude
for their continued confidence and COOP
Grafton in the prohibition fight. 1t is en-
couraging to note that the ministers Of
all denominations are now increasingly in
teresting themselves in protecting their
communities from the illicit liquor buSi-
ness. These Wide-aWake ministers are
turning to the League with counsel and
assistance.
RESOLUTION NUMBER FIVE /
Whereas, In this new awakening of our
state, concerned for our prohibition laws
and with determination to see them in
creasingly efficiently enforced, the Wom-
ems organizations of the state are taking
loyal stand: therefore be it
ReSoIUed, By the state board of trustees
of the Anti-Saloon League that we ex-
press our qualification that such a large
per cent, some placing it as high as ninety
per cent, of the women's clubs of our
state are actively interesting themselves
in this great moral question Of outlaWing
beverage liquor; be it
ReSoIUed, That so far as is practicable,
this resolution be sent to the women's
clubs of Illinois, with our sincere proffer
of assistance in all that they seek to do
in supporting prohibition.
RESOLUTION NUMBER SIX
Whereas, It is no exaggeration to say
that never in the prohibition fight has
our state of Illinois been more thorough
ly aroused, united and eager for leader
ship than now. Our League is meeting
this new opportunity in a most efficient
way. We have inaugurated county con-
ventions, having already held seven OF
them in the following counties: Boone,
Jane, DuPage, McHenry, Lake, DeKalb
and Kendall and purpose to pursue this
method until We have touched every coun-
ty in the state; therefore be it
ReSolUed, BY this state board of trustees
that we commend our general superin-
tendent in his program of county conven-
tions looking to a completer organization
of our forces in this state; be it further
ReSoIUed, That we express to the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union and
other county temperance organizations
our gratitude for their cooperation with
our general superintendent in thus con-
centrating in each county its dry forces in
a central body, representative of that
county.
RESOLUTION NUMBER SEVEN 2
Whereas, The Anti-Saloon League, both
national and state, is not an organization,
but a league of existing bodies, namely,
churches temperance and other organiza-
tons, that desire to cooperate and thus
league themselves together in opposition
to the beverage liquor traffic;
Whereas, 1t has taken thirty-eight years
of hard fighting and of increasing sim
plidcation of organizational methods to