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nor Smith complains it could have never destroyed the open saloon. But, rdETHODISTS BACK THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE why should the churches through their organization, the Anti-Saloon The following resolutions were passed unanimously at the recent se;:;­ League, which is the church in action, for the purpose of fighting the liquor sion of the W e;:t Texas Annual Conference of the M. E. Church, South: traffic, be criticised for doing its work when the organized liquor tn.ffic in "Whereas, Since the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment, our dry pre-prohibition days was working 365 days in the year to dominate the poli­ forces have to some extent become disorganized, and hereby have permitted tics and government of the nation and of every state in the Union, while, the enemy of prohibition to sow tares in their social, moral and political since prohibition the outlawed liquor traffic, represented by the Association field, that, in this political crisis, at least, gives great alarm lest thereby the Against the Prohibition Amendment, headed by Curran and Stayton an.::l 'noble experiment' for which our mothers and fathers fought for a hundred John J. Raskob and Pierre S. duPont, all Republicans, are fighting in the years might be suddenly smothered, annulled and destroyed; but nation and in all the states to promote the return of the legalized sale of "Whereas, During all this trying period of indifference and disintegra­ booze and for the Canadian liquor "parlor" substitute for the open saloon? tion, the Anti-Saloon League and the Woman's Christian Temperance It is a matter of common newspaper record and knowledge that this Repub­ Union have not faltered in their programs, but in spite of indifference on the lican Association Against the Prohibition Amendment largely took over part of friends, and opposition on the part of enemies, have held fast the and financed and managed this so-called Democratic campaign to put AI lines for political righteousness, both in the State and the Nation, and at this Smith in the White House. time are using their maximum strength to prevent and divert the national "If it is intolerance for the churches and their organization, the_ Anti­ catastrophe, threatened by the candidacy of Tammany Hall's and the As­ Saloon League, to fight for the election of dry candidates and against the sociation Against Prohibition's candidacy for the presidency; therefore, be it -election of wet candidates, and for dry legislation and against wet legisla­ tion, then, why is it not intolerance for Raskob and AI Smith's Association "Resolve~, by the WeGt Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopd Against the Prohibition Amendment to fight for the election of wet candi­ Church, South, That we gratefully ackn0wledge the loyal service these two dates and against the election of dry candidates and for wet legislation and organizations have rendereci for the cause of prohibition, and heartily en­ against dry legislation?" · dorse and approve their programs of activity, and call upon our people throughout the bounds of this Conference to give to these organizations their unstint-:..-J moral, personal and financial support; and to count it an honor to belong to one or the other and a double honor to belong to both." THE PROHIBITION REFERENDUfVl J. D. Scott, P.resident, For the past five or six years the wets of New York and the East have been clamoring for a national referendum on the prohibition question, and on No­ J. Grady Timmons, Secretary. vember 6 they got it, and they got it where the chicken got the axe-in the neck. Now they will attempt to deny that it was a referendum on t!.:e liquor G.U.A'li.on, but during. the campaign they boldly asserted_t}l§i)t was. Replying to Mr. Hughes' speech, Sir John Raskob said: "The R:)publicans ''UOW IT HAPPENED" l:now, and the Anti-Saloon League knows very well, that this prohibition is a By'SENATOR THOMAs B. LovE, in Times Herald, Da1las real issue ... The matter of prohibition ought to be subjected to the people on a referendum because Smith's election in a large part will be a refer~ndam After the election the "Times-Herald" asked Senator Thomas B. Love in many sections on the prohibition question." . to tell the people "how it happened." He did so in three lengthy ar ides We quote further from the New York Herald-Tribune) in an editorial under too long to quote l:.ere. His reference to the work of the A:'-ti-Salcon t.he title "The Great Referendum." It says: League is C',..uoted as follows: "It was comm.only asserted by the supporters of Governor Smith ·during the campaign that the election would constitute a. great referendum on the liquor "The Aati-Saloon League of Texas, headed by the militant and effi­ issue. 'Vote for Governor Smith and stand up with the wets; vote for 1\ir. cient Dr. At icus Vvebb, seconded ably and faithfully by Mrs. Atticus Hoover and be counted as a dry,' ran the formula. Webb, rendered service throughout the campaign wrich was indispensable "Vlell, when the electors from seven or eight states vote for Governor Smith next January, they will constitute one of the dryest batches of electors that to success. It was under Dr. \Vebb's auspices that Dr. John Roach Strat::m, were ever assembled in behalf of a candidate. The overwhelming majority of whom Governor Smith very foolishly challenged to meet in joint debate in them wm hail from that great American desert, the heart of the solid South, which is bone dry and which remained true to Democracy on Tuesday." Dr. Straton's own church in New York City, came to Texas and addressed The November election will go down in history as a referendum, and prob­ a number of mee ings in various portions of the state, remarkable for their ably the last, on the question of prohibition. There were probably more dry numbers and their enthusiasm. These demonstrations came at the psycho­ Democrats who, out of the feeling of loyalty to their party, either voted for Al Smith or stayed away from the polls, than there were wet Republicans who did logical moment and had a powerful psychological effect. The Texas Anti­ the same for their party. Every test as to party sentiment that we have had Saloon's new~paper, "Home and State," originally founded by the revered · that was of a nature to be depended upon as indicating that the sentiment Methodist preacher and pioneer prohibitionist, Dr. George C. Rankin, supporting prohibition in America is about two to one. Eight years of propa­ ganda filling the wet press and endeavoring to prove to the people that the law whose fearless slogan, in the days of the open Ealoon, was "On with the &hould be "modified," doubtless influenced many voters. It was easier to put Ba tle/' with its 40,000 circulation reaching into every county and nearly over a claim for "modification" than for the repeal of the law. Most of these every community in Texas, was an important influence in inducing Demo­ who complain at the lack of enforcement of the law, lent a willing ear to the plea for "modification," but would not have had any sympathy whatever for a crats not ·only to vote for Hoover but to work for him. demand for repeal. · "There is nothing more remarkabk in politics than the attitude of the And yet, they did not take the pains to learn just what the ''modification" \Vet forces of the nation toward the Anti-Saioon League. I heard Governor demanded would mean. Any investigation would have revealed to them that it 1i1eant one of two things; either to repeal the Eighteenth .1\mendment, or to AI Smith, in a speech at Baltimore, denounce that organization as intoler­ nullify it. Probably 2,500,000 voters cast their vote for Al Smith under the de­ ant and un-American. Yet, in all of his speeches he was c~reful to declare lusion that a "modification" of the Volstead act was wise, and yet who would his unconditional oppositien to the return of the open saloon which he said have shrunk from any demand for repeal or for nullification. THE MEANING OF THE REFERENDUM he had long declared was and ought to be a defunct institution. The Anti­ The overwhelming vote cast for Herbert Hoover and the overwhelming de­ Saloon League destroyed the open saloon. It rendered to the American feat inflicted upon Alfred Smith, the worst defeat in history, carries but one home and to American life and business and industry this great service, the meaning, and that is that the people approve the law and that ultimately, when value of which was conceded by Governor Smith. He pointed out that this stirred, they will demand the honest and vigorous enforcement of the law. It serves a warning to every sheriff, every prosecuting attorney, every judge, every organization had headquarters in the national capital and keeps its eye on governor, even the President himself, that there is danger in further trifling Senators and Congressmen arid, likewise, has headquarters in the capitals with this l9,W. Neither President Harding nor President Coolidge went into of the various states and keeps hs eye on members of the State Legislature, office with such a mandate from the people on this question. This explains their half-hearted enforcement of the law. There will be no such excuse for and the Anti-Saloon League does and has done these things all expressly Herbert Hoover. permitted and provided for by the Constitution cf the United States and of Herbert Hoover is an honest man. When he takes the oath of office to the various states. support the Constitution, lt will not be taken lightly, as it has been taken by Alf1·ed Smith four times as Governor of New York. Such trifling with oaths of "_If the Anti-Saloon League had not done these things of which Gover· eifice is repugnant to Herbert Hoover. Page Two

an arrangement it will be easily ~ossible, sion on Temperance and Socia.l Service of DRY ORGANIZAT~O!~S UNITE FOR CONCERTED ACTION when some piece of national legislation is the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; up, to call the conference into session Committee on Promotion of Temperance there and to be ready to bring immediate Legislation in Congress; Commi;tee on TO MAINTAIN DRY LAW AND FOSTER DRY SENTIMENT pressure through the cooperating organi­ Temperance and Social Service of the zations and their joint constituency of Southern Baptist Convention; Depart­ Action Taken December 13 in Washington Enlarges Powers of National several million persons "back home." ment of Moral Welfare of the Presby­ terian Church in the United States of Legisla-tive. Conference; Supplants It With National Conference Educa.tion of college students, scientific America; Department of Social Service of of Organizations Supporting Eighteenth Amendment temperance instruction in public and pri­ the United Presbyterian Church; Depart­ vate schools and colleges, and the dis­ ment of Social Service of the Universalist semination through every possible means Church; Department of Temnenm"P anrl THIRTY-ONE ORGANIZATIONS OFFICIALLY REPRESENTED of the doctrine of the worthiness of pro­ Good Citizenship of the United Society of hibition and abstinence will have a large Christian Endeavor; F'lying bquaa.ron Comprehensive Program for Education as to Personal and Social Effect part in the Conference program, the Foundation; Friends (Five Years' Meet­ statement says. ing) Prohibition Board; Intercollegiate of Beverage Alcohol to be Carried Out in Addition Rev. Arthur J. Barton, D. D., of Atlanta, Prohibition Association; International to Legislative Activities social service secretary of the Southern Order of Good Templars; International Baptist Convention and chairman of the Reform Association; National Civic executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League; National Division of the Sons of Was'PJngton, December 13.-An organi­ the United Committee for Law Enforce­ League of America, was elected Presi­ zation of national temperance and pro­ ment made application for membership Temperance of North America; National dent; the Vice Presidents are Mrs. Ella Reform Association; National Service hibition bodies, numbering 31, and for and was received. Provision was made A. Boole and Dr. Clarence True Wilson; the fifteen years of its existence known as whereby other national organizations, not Commission of the Evangelical Church; Dr. E. C. Dinwiddie was chosen Secre­ National Temperance Society; National the National Legislative Conference, De­ now members, may become members by tary, and the Treasurer is Dr. J. W. cember 13 became defunct with the or­ vote of the Conference. Women's Democratic Law Enforcement Claudy, of Philadelphia, General Secre­ League; Prohibition National Committee; ganization in its stead of the National As was the case with the so-called com­ tary of the Department of Moral Welfare Conference of Organizations Supporting mittee of 31, which was the creature of Scientific Temperance Federation; Social on the Presbyterian Church in the United Service Commission of the Northern the Eighteenth Amendment, which, its the National Legislative Conference, and SLates of America. sponsors announced is the most extensive, which was active in the presidential cam­ Baptist Convention; Temperance Com­ the largest and most influential federated paign of 1928, so the new organization will COOPERATING BODIES mission of the Reformed Presbyterian Church; United Committee for Law En­ movement of national temperance organi­ be at the national political conventions The following organizations are coop-· zations that has ever taken the field. intent on seeing that dry planks are in forcement, and Unitarian Temperance erating in the Conference: Society. Further, the officers and spokesmen of the platforms and dry candidates are Anti-Saloon League of America; Na­ the new organization declared that nominated. The legislative committee tional Woman's Christian Temperance whereas the old organization out of which is expected to· keep conl>tant watch on all Union; Alcohol Information Committee; the new one was formed, was limited to congressional activities that in anywise Asscclation of Catholics Favoring Prohi­ the consideration of legislation affecting affect prohibition. bition; Association in Sup'port of National RETURNS IN lARGE ClTIES prohibition, and of party platforms and REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING Prohibition; Board of Temperance, Prohi­ candidates, the new compact has unani­ Provision was made for holding meet­ tion and Public Morals of the Methodist Considering the Part Prohibition mously adopted a constitution which ings of the Conference annually in Wash­ Episcopal Church; Board of Temperance commits it to programs covering every ington, on the second Wednesday in De­ and Social Service of the Disciples of Played in the Election possible phase of prohibition and the al­ cember, but the executive committee is Christ; Catholic Clergy Prohibition cohol problem. empowered to call emergency and interim League; Commission on Law Enforcement The returns in fourteen of the large Organization of the new federation was meetings. It is pointed out that by such of the Congregational Church; Commis- developed from a plan presented by Dr. cities of the country show remarkable re­ ~ Ernest H. Cherrington, General Secre­ sults. It will be argued that because tary of the World League Against Al­ Herbert Hoover carried eight of the four­ coholism and Director of Department of DON'T FORGET JANUARY 16 teen largest cities of the country in the Education, Publicity and Research. The recent election and lost only four others gathering accepted his plan, after its by·· comparatively small majorities, the handling by a committee of which Dr: Don't Fail to Make the Most of This Very Appropriate Time to Call Atten­ prohibition issue played very little part Cherrington was chairman, and whose in the campaign. On the contrary, the other members were Dr. Oliver W. tion of the People to Dry Law Benefits, and Urge Continued facts negative any such conclusion. Gov­ Stewart, of Indianapolis, head of the Fly­ Support of This Beneficent Policy ernor Smith was so insistent about the ing Squadron and editor of the National injection of the prohibition issue into the Enquirer; Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, campaign that he made known his oppo­ Preiiaent.of the National W. C. T. U. and The suggestion for appropriate observance of Prohibition's birthday anni­ sition to prohibition before the Houston an officer in the World W. C. T. U.; Dr. versary is receiving gratifying approval of friends of the national prohibition convention finally adjourned. In his D. Lei~h Colvin, New York City, chair­ policy throughout the nation. The nun;. be~ of requests for the pageant_ package sp3eches, especially at Milwaukee, Balti­ man of the national Prohibition party and prepared by the American Issue Publlshmg Company thus far received, en­ more and New York he emphasized this once its candidate for Vice President of courages the belief that the day will be observed more generally this year than opposition and went so far as to attack the United States; Rev. 0. R. Miller, Al­ any previous year since the Eighteenth Amendment became effective. the Anti-Saloon League which had cham­ bany, N. Y., head of the National Reform pioned the cause of Mr. Hoover on the No doubt many public schools, church~s. Sunday schools and young people's As:::-ociation. prohibition question. Mr. Raskob, who The National Conference of Organiza­ societies will present programs of their own. AMERICAN IssuE will have no was Governor Smith's manager, made it tions Supporting the Eighteenth Amend­ knowledge of how many celebrations. take place unless notified by those in clear at the outset that his chief objection ment, its statement says, not only will charge. It is hoped, therefore, that all celebrations of this character will be to the Republican position was its atti­ study pending and proposed legislation, reported to AMERICAN IssuE in order that a reasonably correct estimate can be tude and that of the candidate on the with. recmomendations to all the temper­ made as to how generally this day is observed. prohibition issue. Mayor Walker, of New ance forces of the United States, and con­ The pageant has been prepared solely with the view of encouraging and York, bosom friend of Goven1or Smith, tLl"lue actively in the field with regard to aiding a proper observance of this very important day in the history of our na­ emphasized over and over again the op­ party platforms and candidates, but also tion and is not being offered practically at cost. Vle believe that it gives the position of the Governor to prohibition. wi..ll work out comprehensive programs for historical facts as to how the national prohibition amendment was written into As we have stated in previous editions, education as to ·the personal and social the wet newspapers and politicians gener­ effect of beverage alcohol, and also to the the Constitution in as brief and attractive and interesting manner as these ally declared throughout the campaign end of promoting law enforcement, law facts can possibly be presented. It is, therefore, urged that advantage be taken that the election would be a referrndum observance and personal abstinence. of this offer made by American Issue Publishing Company and that schools, on prohibition. churches, and young people's societies in large numbers will send in their re­ The executive coommittee was given re­ In the face of these facts the vote in sponsibility for supplying and handling quest at once for this pageant package containing all the necessary equipment the fourteen large cities given below is the necessary financial plan. Also, there for a beautiful and correct presentation of the facts showing how the national most significant. Even if one is not will­ will be a number of committees, notably prohibition policy came about. on legislation, enforcement, observance, ing to admit that the vote in the cities enrollment of persons favorable to the GUARD AGAINST APATHY represents their attitude on the liquor It is universally conceded that the greatest danger confronting the drys question, it does show that even the large Eighteenth Amendment, and publicity. cities of the country are not so intensely One piece of work planned will be the today is the danger of apathy. Without doubt the most important event in urging of the registr;:ttion of voters and prejudiced against prohibition that they connection with the prohibitrion movement in the United States since the rati­ were ready to vote in any overwhelming the participation of voters in primaries fication of the Eighteenth Amendment took place on November 6, when the e.nrl elections. All work of the Confer­ way for the chief apostle of the anti-pro­ voters of this country emphatically endorsed the national dry policy and de­ hibition cause in the country at large, es­ ence, it is explained, will be national in livered a mandate to the legislatures of their respective States, to their National scope. pecially when in voting for Mr. Hoover · Congress and to the National Administration for effective enforcement of that they did it deliberately and with their LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE policy. eyes open to the fact that he had declared The legislative committee is composed WETS ARE CONTINUING THE FIGHT for the preservation, the observance and <» the following, all of whom are national the enforcement of the Eighteenth representatives in Washington of national This election, as has been said many times before, was a3 nearly a direct Amendment and its supporting statutes. temperance organizations: Dr. E. C. Din­ referendum on national prohibition as can be held. The wets demanded a The vote in the large cities referred to is widdie, national chief templar of the In­ national referendum on prohibition and they have had it in the only way pos­ as follows.: dependent Order of Good Templars, and sible under our form of government. The result was so decisive as to leave no SMITH HOOVER representative of several other organiza­ room for doubt. Decisive as that result was, however, it by no means settles New York 1,153,590 tions; Mrs. Lena Lowe Yost, legislative 704,857 the question. Past experience with the forces fighting in behalf of the liquor Chicago 624,102 643,777 superintendent of the National W . C. traffic would be sufficient evidence to convince any dry that it would be fatal Philadelphia T. U., the representative of several other 269,957 409,962 for the dry forces to slacken their efforts because of this victory. But it is not Detroit 157,729 264,993 women's organizations and a very active Cleveland member of the Republican national com­ necessary to depend upon this past experience for information because the wet 113,541 100,088 forces, among them the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment have St. Louis 176,036 161,522 mittee; Dr. Clarence 'True Wilson, general Boston secretary of the Board of Temperance, definitely and positively declared that the fight for the overthrow of the dry 192,267 94,527 Baltimore 126,402 135,129 Prohibition and Public Morals of the policy will continue. Suiting action to their words, wet leaders in Congress Pittsburgh Methodist Episcopal Church; Canon Wil­ during this short session have apparently redoubled their efforts to obstruct 83,265 92,308 Los Angeles 149,379 371,196 liam Shea.fe Chase, prominent New York any legislation designed to make enforcement more effective. The fact that Buffalo Episcopal clergyman and head of the In­ 102,315 103,998 their numbers have been dec\!"eased in both House and Senate does not ma­ San Francisco 95,929 93,285 ternational Reform Association; and E. B. terially interfere with their tactics of delaying needed dry legislation. In a Newark ;Dunford, attorney for the Anti-Saloon 69,701 59,515 vote in Congress they are hopelessly outnumbered bu~ that they will continue Cincinnati J,..ea.gue of America. 106,566 139,922 :Upon completion of the orgariization. (Continued on Page 3) 3,420,769 3,375,079 Page fl· ..... ~

Proh~bition was finding place in Kan­ ionable in America. They formed gangs sas and in New England, as it had in by nationalities and become gunmen to What the Current Magazines }~.re Saying About Prohibition the SoYcth, which was anxious to keep such a point that life in large cities has intoxicants away from the colored race. become somewhat precarious. and Lavt Enforcement The W. c. T. U. took on new life, and Prohibition, immigration or the break great business concerns came to uphold down of our judicial system are all (~eviewed by Eitfu.a L. Tra:b.seau) sobriety. The United States Navy and blamed for this state of affairs, but as the railroads took it up, and finally in Prof. Dodd sees it, there had been a 1919 (The Atlantic Montil:ty, 1928) form of saloons, red-light distncts, and the Eighteenth Amendment to the habit of lawlessness :n the United Stat-es December, Constitution was adopted to be followed from the earliest days, a habit which IS THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT gun-carrying desperadoes. The United States was preparing schools of crime closely by the Volstead act. Then, has influenced immigrants on their ar­ MAKING US A NATION OF for her young. Conditions wer.e such rival, which has warped minds Baptists were as they had formerly mentioned butlers the law, and which gravely threatens By JAMES TRUSLOW ADAlli!S striving to combat them by holding re­ and footmen, while to get drunk was a The answer that Mr. Adams gives is vivals of the shouting type. "Ten sign of gentility and independence. The the existing social order. that the Eighteenth Amendment has not Nights in a Barroom" was the rage, immigrant populations of the states were made us lawless, for we were lawless be­ displayed by pictures in cheap theaters, law-abiding but accustomed to alcohol, (The Congregationalist, Nov. 22, 1928) fore. Lawlessness is a distinctly Ameri­ and Rip Van Winkle was used by Anti­ and from reading and . great ·dailies HOW WET IS MASSACHUSETTS? can trait. Realizing that this raises the liquor propaganda. learned that disobedience to law is fash- (Editorial) further question as to how we became so The searching analysis here made ot when the people of the various European the recent vote leaves little ground for countries from which our populations · the claim of the wets that the state is sprang are law-abiding in their home DON'T FORGET JANUARY 16 theirs. Their boasted 250,000 majority on lands, he tur~ for answer to American (Continued from Page 2) the "referendum" vote was a failure so history. far as securing their objective-instruct­ The creation of the Massachusetts to contest every inch of the way up to a roll call has been amply demonstrated ing Senators to take action favorable to colony was an example of law­ during the past week. a resubmission of the Eighteenth Amend­ breaking on a large scale. The incor­ A DAY TO TAKE STOCK ment-because they did not secure a ma­ poration of the Massachusetts com­ A proper celebration of prohibition's birthday on a day near January 16 jority of the votes cast. Nearly 450.000 pany had an altogether different object. will serve the purpose of calling to the attention of the whole world the fact who voted on other questions at the elec­ Then there were the wholesale viola­ that this nation has no intention of surrendering this beneficent policy to those tion did not vote on this referendum. tions of the royal ordinances respecting who would destroy it for greed and appetite. The presidential vote-came nearer to be­ the King's Woods, ordinances the pur­ ing a referendum, but there were other pose of which was to reserve trees over In every community let the church bells ring for nine minutes, a minute influences besides the wet and dry ques­ a certain size for the royal navy. And for every year of prohibition ap.d the people will pause to contemplate what this tion that gave Governor Smith a majority the colonists ignored their own laws. beneficent law means. Let the people assemble and consider together the in the state. They sold spirits and firearms ·to the manifold blessings ,~that have come to this nation because the legalized liquor The real question concerning the in­ Indians. They dealt with the French traffic has been outlawed. , · terpretation of this referendum vote lies of Canada by way of Albany, in spite of Let them have brought to their attention the benefits represented in homes deeper. The Anti-Saloon League vir­ the menace to the public security in­ where peace now reigns where formerly in the old saloon days discord pre­ tually ignored the rererendum, carrying volved. In fact, whenever there was vailed. on no campaign or agitation with ref­ profit to be made, laws were ignored. Let the merchants recall those bad accounts of the days when the corner erence to it. The League devotes :its Then there was Shay's Rebellion and saloon was operating-bad accounts of customers who now pay cash and buy efforts toward the election of "d.-y" the Whisky Insurre~tion, and the law­ more and better merchandise than they did when a large share of the pay legislators to office and their success in lE·~ness resulting from the slavery agi­ this real referendum is indicated by the tation, and lynch law. His general con­ envelope went to the brewer and distiller through the saloon keeper's hands. fact that the "drys" made a net gain clusion is that we are lawless by in­ Let everybody consider the increased savings accounts, the increased home of one Congressman in the state and heritance, and that every restrictive building. And in refutation of the charge so frequently heard by the wets that elected "drys" to all state offices .... measure like the Eighteenth Amend­ there is increased drinking of liquor under prohibition than in the saloon days, It may be recalled that two years ago ment tends to inflame the spirit of re­ let those whose memory goes back ten years ask themselves how many drunken Governor Fuller, with the endorsement sistance. people they have seen on the streets in the last year. of the "drys" defeated an opponent The editor of the Boston Herald does Our memories seem so short. We forget so soon, it is well to stop a few running on an avowedly and intensely not e.gree that we are such a lawless na­ moments and consider these things. And what more appropriate day for such w~t platform, by a majority almost as tion. He says: contemplation than prohibition's birthday? great as the "wets'' now claim on the If person and property are not so se- referendum. . . cure with us as they are in England, the CONSIDER THE FIGHT AHEAD The evidence for the strength of the surprising thing is that they are not less · But this is not sufficient. Let the observat~on of this birthday bring to wet and dry forces is manifestly con­ secure than they are. We are a you 1g mind the fact that the wets are fighting, perhaps as they never fought before fused. Our own estimate of the situ­ country. When the present Britisn to overthrow this dry policy; to bring back the liquor traffic under some form ation is that except in a few drippingly state was 300 years old, it was still of regulation. Let it be deeply impressed upon the minds of all that the wet "wet" areas, such as parts of Boston and pretty lawless. It took centuries of iron other large cities, Massachusetts is pre­ rule by the Norman aristocracy to in­ leaders are looking forward to the next election, maybe the city, the county, the dominatingly "dry." duce that respect for the individual and State and most certainly the next Congressional election, expectant and hopeful The editor believes that the Roman his goods which is the boast of Eng­ of putting their friends into office who will give their influence and their vote to Catholics will soon be coming more land today. When our revolutionary bring b-ack the liquor traffic. strongly to the dry side. He says: ancct;tors threw off British rule, there Make it a day of re-consecration to this dry cause. Resolve to enter into It took a long time for the Protes­ was naturally a period of anarchy. and take a part in the educational program that is necessary to create more dry tant churches to be roused into effective Every man interpreted the new freedom sentiment and to crystaliz·e that dry sentiment-winning those of that very opposition to . the curse of strong drink, as freedom to do what was right in his formidable minority represented in the vote given Governor Smith and in the and we believe that much the same own eyes. It was then that the law­ vote endorsing his proposed program of nullification. This fight will continue process that has taken place among abiding instinct of the race asserted it­ just so long as that minority is of sufficient strength to encourage the wet Protestants is now going on among self. Order was gradually evolved out Roman Catholics. This in time, it is of chaos, and the process is still going leaders to believe that they have a fighting chance. The wets' only chance of our hope and prophecy, will materially on. In the older parts of the country success is to win over sufficient number of the majority to change election re­ change the situation in some areas that the administration of justice is nearly sults. This they have definitely set about to accomplish and the only way to are now predominantly "wet." Mean­ as efficient as it is in England, this de­ checkmate them is for the drys to keep in the fight. while, Massachusetts is a long ways spite obvious handicaps. Lynch law, to Every community in the United States ought to fittingly observe the 16th from putting forth any conspicious or which Mr. Adams refers, was not a of January. If you have not already done so, and if no steps have been taken in overwhelming demand for the repeal o! symptom of lawlessness, but of the re­ your community to observe this day, why not now send for the pageant package the E~ghteenth Amendment. The rest verse. Lynch law was a system of to the American Issue Publishing Company, Westerville, or for information and of the country may rest assured on that rough justice which men had to create literature that will help in the preparation for proper celebration. point. for themselves in territories that would otherwise have been without any form (Zion's Herald, Nov. 14, 1928) of justice. Idealism is not dead in America. Tllis As to the Eighteenth Amendment in­ is the dominant meaning of the sweep­ fiaming a spirit of resistance, that, it may ing Hoover victory on November 6•.•• be added, can only be true of those whose When the .test came, the people of thts sense of justice has not been trained to PROHIBITION ·PAGEANT IS SELLING Temperance Organizations Preparing country voted for idealism, dignity. look at the liquor traffic from the stand­ to celebrate prohibition's anni­ serious-mindedness, experience and ad­ point of those whom it deprives of their versary in a striking and effective manner, that will get the truth about ministrative ability. . . . G over nor inalienable rights to life, liberty and the prohibition, the facts about the adoption of prohibition, and the data as Smith put prohibition into this political pursuit of happiness. to the whole prohibition thoroughly before the eyes and into the ear and campaign; the electorate have taken it heart of every child and every young person in America, and thus make out of politics for all time. (Review of Reviews, December, 1928) January 16, the ninth anniversary of the going into effect of the Eight­ (The World's Work, December, 1928) AMERICA'S HABIT OF LAWLESSNESS eenth Amendment, one of the great national observance days. JOIN THE MOVEMENT-ORDER THE ANNIVERSARY PAGEANT Mr. Hoover had the advantage o! A line of thought concerning American This anniversary pageant is for use in all schools, Surl'day schools, having taken the popular side of the lawlessness similar to that of Mr. Adams' young people's meetings. It was prepared by J. H. Larimore, and may be argument over prohibition. . . . M:r. in the Atlantic Monthly, though not ap­ Hoover was obviously a dry and Gover­ plied to prohibition, is developed and car­ had by ordering from the Literature Department of the American Issue nor Smith even more obviously a wet. ried further in the Century by Mr. Wil­ Publishing Company at Westerville, Ohio. The package· contains the text The election was to that extent a ref­ liam E. Dodd, whose article is reviewed ai of the pageant, directions for putting it on, Uncle Sam Suit, Hat and erendum on national wetness and dry­ considerable length by the editor of the Whiskers, and Name Strips for each of the 48 girls representing the 48 ness. There is no mistaking the result. Review ot Reviews.. Mr. Dodd adds, the States. Prohibition won. The "noble experi­ opposition in the South to the Fourteenth The whole package may be had for $5, carriage paid, cash wlth order. ment" has made few converts in New and Fifteenth Amendments; Jay Gould. Special prices for large quantities. Send in your order now, so there will York, Chicago, and New Orleans, but it Commodore Vanderbilt, and Daniel Drew, be no delay in filling it in time to get your celebration ready. The pageant is solidly entrenched in the Middle and who outdid each other in shady railroad Far West and in the rural South. deals and such negotiations. Powerful requires no fuss and feathers, no intensive drilling and practice. Any school no matter how small, can easily put it on. It tells the story. men refused to obey the Sherman Anti­ There are about 160,000 doctors in the Trust law, and,- Write TODAY to Literature Department United States, and only about half o! By 1900, the record continues, the AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Westerville, Ohio. them hold permits to prescribe liquor !or states were rampant with vice in the medicinal use. .r'age !'·our HO.ME AND STATE

HOME AND STATE Fingerprints for Liquor Law Violators Checking the Canadian Rurp Flow (EI"tablished 1903) Persons arrested for violating the prohibition laws The prohibition enforct!ment department an­ Official Organ Anti-Saloon League of Texas in Pennsylvania will have their photographs and nounces that perhaps the greatest obstac~e now con­ Published monthly, except August and September, by fingerprints taken by the police, according to a rul­ fronting it in the enforcement of the l_aw 1s rum run.r. THE AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING CO. ing by Col. Wynne, federal prohibition administrator ning along the Canadian border. Peri:a~s t!J.e 130 South State Street, Westerville, Ohio in Philadelphia. This step, he says, ·has been made greatest gateway from the breweries and d1stillenes FOR THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF TIDXAS ·necessary because arrests have shown many old of­ of Canada through Detroit. It is admitted that EDIT0RIAL OFFICE-412-413 Southwestern Life Bldg., Dallas, Texas fenders as well as others are wanted by the police large quantities of Canadian liquor are smuggled and as fugitives from justice. across the river at this point every week. E~NEST H. CHERRTNGTON, Euitor At this time the government is redoubling. its .ef­ REV. ATTICUS WEBB, State J<::tlitor This is a wise move on the part of administrator Wynne. What is true in Philadelphia is true else­ forts to suppress this illegal traffic. InvestigatiOn -E-n-te-r-ed_a_s-s -eeond-class matter at the po<>tofficc at Westerville, covering many weeks revealed the fact that some Ohio, under Act of March 3, 1879 where. Perhaps a large percent.age of the bootleg­ gers are men schooled in crime. Prohibition did not members of the patrol guard had succumbed to the SUBSCl:UPTION PRICFJ-$1.00 a Year in tbe United States great temptation of accepting bribes from the rum All letters should be addressed to HoMR AND STATE, Dallas, Texas make them criminals. They were criminals before the saloons were closed. They have taken up boot­ runners. A number of these derelict guards h~ve OFFICERS OF ANTI-SAL00?\1 LEAGUE OF TEXAS legging as a side line. They belong to that class, been indicted and a general clean-up in the serv1ce President-JUDGE M. A. CHILDERS San Antonio is under way. 1st Vice President-GEO. \V. CARROLL . Beaumont who, in the old saloon days made the saloon head­ 2nd Vice President-DR. HFJNRY G. BOWDEN Fort Worth quarters. No doubt the Philadelphia administrator At the same time our government .began house­ Secretary-.Junm~ G1WRGE Sr<:RGEANT Dallas Superintendent-REV. ATTICUS WEBB Dallas will be enabled to round up many fugitives from cleaning on this side of the border, the Canadian justice by his new method. government closed a number of ,distributing war~­ EXECUTIVE COMMITTF.F.-Dr. E. A. Maness, Dr. E. D. Jennings, houses on the Ontario side, thus showing a good Wlll Judge W. E. Williams, Prof. II. A. Ivy, Dr. 13. A. Copass. that is commendable. BoARD OI.' MANAGERS-Judge Samuel Smelser, Texarkana; Geo. W. Carroll, Beaumont; W. L. Purdue, Big Sandy; Prof. H. A. Commissiontr Doran's Annual Report The cheering word now comes from the .enforce­ Ivy, Sherman ; Dean E. D . .Jennings, Dallas; Rev. R. E. Day, In the annual report of Prohibition Commissioner ment department that the rum flow is checked and Bryan; Rev. King Vivion, Georgetown; Rev. vV. D. Ryan, Hous­ ton; Judge S. G. Sample, Edna; Judge W. E. Williams, Fort Doran made public December 8, it was revealed that that enforcemel)t conditions are rapidly improving. Worth ; Dr. J. L. Ward, Decatur; Dr.. J. T. Curry, San Antonio; his {orces had made 75,307 arrests with 58,813 con­ As an indication of. the temptation to which these Dr.· S. L. Bachelor, Harlingen; Ron. C. E. Mead, Marfa; Dr. J. D. S'lndefer, Abilene; Senator J W. Reid, Ca nyon; Dr. E. A. victions in the fiscal year 1928. It was an increase guards have been subjected, the testimony of a Maness, Commerce; H. L. Kokernot, San Antonio; Dr. J. C. of 10,000 over the previous vear. former customs lieutenant given before the federal Hardy, Belton. Operating with 4,396 permanent and 92 tem­ grand jury in Detroit is enlightening. This man is porary employes, the bureau seized 1,048,636 now involved in graft charges but was a witness for JANUARY, 1929 gallons of illegal spirits, 4,254,029 gallons of malt the government. He told the jury that rum runners liquors, 399,603 gallons of wirie, 16,220 illicit dis­ had offered him $50,000 to quit his job and added tilleries, 18,980 stills and 217,278 fermenters. that during the time he was in the service he could During the year the prohibition forces seized easily have made $150,000 in bribes. More Effective Cooperation 6,934 automobiles, valued at $3,057,132, and 81 That some men yielded to the temptation is not boats valued at $144,240. surprising, especially in view of the fact that due to The Associated Press announces that the Cana­ Commissioner Doran said that 77,799 prohibi­ the reorganization of the department under the civil dian Government and the United States will meet tion violation cases were terminated in 1928 and service rule some of them knew that their positions in conference some time in January to consider re­ of the convictions,. 15,793 persons were given were temporary because they had failed in the civil vision of the 1924 rum running treaty. This is grati­ jail sentences equalling 5,631 years and fines ag­ service examination. They reasoned that as their fying news. Both countries realize that the present gregating $7,031,109 were assessed. In addition position was of short duration they might as well treaty is not sufficient to control the situation. to the federal cases, agents of the bureau aided get what they could while the getting was good. While no definite word has been given out by Wash­ in 15,077 cases in State courts in which 9,025 The personnel of the forces will soon be of a perma­ ington it is generally understood that the United convictions were secured. nent character and of higher grade, a fact that will States desires a provision in the treaty whreeby greatly reduce the hazard of the bribe. clearance papers for rum cargoes destined to the For the most part the men have proved them­ United States be refused. In other words it has Ruling Against Near-Beer Breweries Upheld selves worthy of trust and it is unfair to judge the been definitely demonstrated that so long as rum The authority of the Federal Prohibition Depart­ whole force by the failure of a few to measure up to cargoes are cl~ared for this country some of the con­ ment to revoke permits of near-beer breweries which the test. However, with the reorganization rapidly traband is certain to reach its destination, in spite have violated the law, has been upheld in a decision being perfected the prohibition enforcement depart­ of all regulatory measures that might be taken. The rendered in Philadelphia last week, which is said to ment is certain that the pastime of rum runners on only real remedy is to stop the liquor at its source. be of far-reaching effect in the administration of the the Detroit river will soon be reduced to a minimum. In order to obtain a treaty such as is desirable it is prohibition law all over the United States. understood that the Canadian parliament would The case is that of the Graupner Brewery at Har­ have to enact certain legislation governing the point risburg, Pennsylvania, which was licensed to operate in question. As for Canada thus far the Canadian for the manufacture of cereal beverages. Agents of Smith Vote Lessened by Official Count Governme:.."'t has showed a commendable willingness the Federal Prohibition Department raided the More than 91 out of every 100 registered voters in to cooperate with our gov'-_nment in the suppres­ plant some time ago and found a quantity of alco­ Massachusetts went to the polls and cast a ballot for sion of this illegal traffic and it is to be hoped that holic beer in kegs contrary to regulations, which President on November 6, according to the official the conference in January will prove that our provide that intoxicating malt liquor may not be tabulation of State returns made public December 7. friendly neighbor to the north is willing to go still placed in kegs or other portable containers before The Massachusetts percentage was 91.67, as com­ further in her efforts to protect us f:t.·om this flow of dealcoholization. . · · pared with approximately 81 per cent four years ago, Canadian :~:_tuor. a gain whose significance is increased by the fact More Than an an Idle Gesture that nearly 330,000 more voters were registered this year than ever before. A federal grand jury sitting in Buffalo recently in­ A Trifling Senatot dicted a number of the most prominent brewers and The size of the plurality for Governor Smith in Senator Bruce last week gave the country a dem­ distillers of Canada on charges of violation of our Massachusetts was placed, after recounts in several onstration of peevishness which has always been· a national prohibition law. Evidence showed that cities and towns, at 17,192 in the official canvass, the characteristic of the wets. It reveals lack of real these liquor makers and distributors of our neighbor totals being: Smith, 792,758; Hoover, 775,566. This sportsmanship. The House voted an appropriation country are conspiring with rum runners to dis­ is 4,000 less than the plurality given in unofficial of $13,500,000 for law enforcement and when the bill tribute contraband liquor on this side of the border. totals of returns immediately after the election. reached the Senate, Senator Bruce contended for an These indicted criminals cannot be extradited and appropriation of over $270,000,000. In order to save therefore it may appear to some that this is nothing debate and time, the postoffice customs appropria­ more than an idle gesture of the case of these Ca­ Inspires New Hope in Britain tion bill of which the prohibition appropriation was nadian brewers and distillers-the indictments will F. A. Wray, International News Staff Corres­ a part was passed with the Bruce amendment call­ bar them from crossing the border unless they are pondent, writing in the Canonsburg Pennsylvania ing for the $270,000,000. Of course this amount was willing to take a chance of being nabbed by our gov­ Daily Notes under a London date line of December reduced in conference, returned to the Senate and ernment the moment they set foot on American soil. 11 says prohibition may be an issue in Britain at the the original $13,500,000 was approved. The indictments also serve to call attention in the general election next year. He says: Many wets joined Bruce in contending for the most emphatic way to a situation that cannot long "The United Kingdom Aliiance-the strono-­ $270,000,000 appropriation as well as a number of be permitted to continue, a situation whereby citi­ est prohibition organization in the country~s drys who voted more along party lines than on the zens of one country can flaunt the laws of a friendly now making quiet plans, with intense care and we~ and dry issue. It may be that some of the drys neighbor with immunity. method, to appeal to the electorate (and es­ felt that $270,000,000 was not too much to enforce The illegal sale of liquor is not new. It did not spring pecially to women) to work and support candi­ prohibition. _ ~ up under prohibition. In 1914 the City of Cleveland had dates who are pledged to rigid temperance re­ Can it be that Senator Bruce and the element about 2,000 "model" licensed saloons, and accordmg to form." which he represents, an element that never loses an the saloon keepers themselves in urging 0hio's Governor Mr. Wray says, "that Mr. Hoover's succes.1 is be­ opportunity to decry the alleged enormous cost of to protect them from the illicit seller, the city had as ~in~ this new effort, that his enormous majority has ei~forcing prohibition has had a change of heart many speakeasies as open saloons, to say nothing of Inspired .new hopes in the prohibition forces in since the election..,_, bootleggers. Britain."

John Roach Straton, at Greenwood· Lake. The loss was estimated at DRO STRATON'S HOTEL BURNS $25,000. Dr. Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, said he was con­ Dr. John Roach Straton, who did much to carry Texas for Hoover, and vinced the fire was of incendiary origin. who thereby called down upon himself the wrath of the wet newspapers and He would not charge, he said, that his enemies had set fire to the politicians of Texas, had bought a hotel on the shores of Greenwood Lake in h1tel beoause of his fight against Governor Alfred E. Smith but he re­ New York, and planned to open a summer Bible school there. The hotel was called that incendiary fires had been set in his home here ~~vera! years burned on the night of November 9. We quote the Associated Press accoupt of ago after h~ had campaigned against cabarets and night clubs. it as follows: Mrs. Straton was more outspoken. She asserted that because her h~soand "CtOuld ~ot ~e intin:idated" he ought to have p"ot -~ction . She Fire Saturday destroyed the Bible Colony Hotel, owned by the Rev. sa1d she was considenng asking Mayor Walker for pollee pro~·:ction. HOME AND STATE Page Five

sadness and regret, but we are gloriously happy over the way you have won EVEN THE CITIES NOT SO WET AS AL SMITH THOUGHT out in that great state." The. Tammany wets, under the leadership of AI Smith, bet that the cities TELEGRAMS would give overwhelming majorities against prohibition, but lost their bet. E. J. Moore, Ohio-"Hearty congratulations on your magnificent victory in . A canvass of _the latest available returns from 14 centers with largest popu­ Texas.'' latiOn sh·.:>wed eight going for Hoover and six for Smith. Numerically, however, Geo. W. Crabbe, Maryland-"Congratulations on your marvelous victory. and to no small extent because of the result in his· home town the New York You have made a great contribution to our cause." Governor took the big city race by 45,000. The big city vote,' some officially Chas. Hafjke, Idaho-"No greater work was done in this campaign than complete, follows: yours." · SMITH HOOVER · Geo. B. Safford, Chicago-"Hoorah for Texas. Hearty congratulations on Nev; York ...... •.•...... • 1,153,590 704,857 your smashing victory for Hoover: We are proud of what you have done and Chicago ...... 624,102 643,777 are rejoicing that Texas has lined up with the rest of us against Alfred Smith, Philadelphia .....•...... 269,957 409,~62 Tammany and reaction.'' . · Detroit ...... ••...... 157,729 264,993 FROM A NEW YORK DEMOCRAT Cleveland ...... •...... 113,541 100,088 St. Louis ...... 176,036 161,522 Orville S. Poland, Attorney for New York Anti-Saloon League-"! want you to know that you have my heartiest felicitations. As a dry Democrat, I feel ~oston ...... 192,257 94,527 Baltimore ...... 126,402 135,129 that what you have accomplished really means the salvation of the party. No Pittsburgh ...... 83,265 92,308 one doubts the importance of the prohibition issue or the fact that it was pre­ dominant in this campaign, but any Democrat knows that there was another L~s Angeles ...... _ ...... 149,379 371,196 I Buffalo ...... 102,315 103,998 underlying issue which was 'also of tremendous importance. That issue was San Francisco ...... ; ...... 95,929 93,205 whether or not the Democratic party should remain a party of the people and Newark ...... • 69,701 59,515 remain representative of the best of its historical traditions, or whether its Cincinri1ti ...... 106,566 139,922 leadership should abdicate to a small group entirely ungrounded in Demo­ cratic principles and reflecting ideals in no wise consonant with American 3,375,079 ideals, and in reality never voiced by any considerable number of those im­ Tota:ls ...... ·...... 3,420,769 bued with the principles of the party. The question was not one of difference between the North and the South, or the city and the country, but whether a little group of men ilke Raskob would force upon us a candidate like Smith APRIVATE MESSAGE FROM THE "TOLERANT" and repudiate Democracy. The result in your. state has answered the question Probably every prohibitionist whose work began to count in the· recent in the negative. campaign, was flooded with abusive letters. There seemed to have been a con­ "I know that you are going to have to take an awful lot of criticism from certed movement, or an organization, to flood all sucn extending all over the ·old-line party followers who are unable to see this question clearly. You are United States. The editor of HoME AND STATE received many vile vilifications. going to be abused just as the League in this state was abused, for instance, for We quote the following from Amarillo, as a sample of those who were so "tol­ _defeating Senator Wadsworth. -That is one reason why I want you to know erant" concerning us bigots. The letter was addressed to the Editor of the that as a Democrat, I believe that the credit for saving the party belongs to HoME AND i3TATE, and we quote it in full, as follows: you and those in other Democratic states who have done the same kind of "Oh what a d--m Liar you and all of your ilk are. You hide· behind the splendid· job you have done." prohibition screen instead of coming out frankly with the reason for such treason as you and all of your ilk have shown. Moore's Fireworshiper curse is tame to what should be applied to such as you, and only postal regulations keep my name off this. Hell is full of your kind." · DOES THE CAPITOL BELONG TO THE PEOPLE? Oh! Vvhat a pity that such "tolerant" folks lost in this election! The people of Austin were very eager to hear Dr. Jol1n Roach Straton, but the politicians of Austin seemed to be just as eager. to keep him from speaking there. Evidently some of the citizens thought of the use of some hall in the Capitol for the occasion. We note in the newspapers of Austin that some mem­ TEXAS RECEIVES THE COXGRATULATIONS OF mE NATION bers of the Board of Control hastily gave the people notice through the papers When we told the nation at large that Texas would repudiate Alfred Smith that Dr. Straton could not use the Capito!. In order to verify the newspaper's at the ballot-box, they did not belie-v.e it. When the election returns came in, report we wrote to each member of the Board of Control, but had the courtesy the friends of prohibition were dazed and the enemies of prohibition stunned. of a reply only from Mr. R. B. Walthall, chairman of the Board, who wrote: "To As soon as the friends of prol:libition came to themselves, congratulations be perfectly candid with you, I would not vote at a meeting of the Board to poured in to the Anti-Saloon League office in Dallas. We quote a few expres­ permit a political speech to be delivered in the Capitol." sions from the letters received: Later the Senate Chamber was extended to the wets for political purposes. Dr. Cherrington, Westerville, Ohio-"Heartiest congratulations on your vi-c­ After this, evidently to save their face, we think, some dry speaker was per­ tory in Texas, which is bound to have a decided effect on local, state and na- mitted to enter its sacred halls. The voters on November 6 gave a rebuke to tional politics." . such conduct. Boyd P. Doty, Westerville, Ohio-"It would be hard to say just what we thirik about old Texas. The Lone Star State certainly came across last Tues- day. Hats oft to Texas." , S. P. McNaught, Des Moines, Iowa-"Now that we are sure that Texas has LUFKIN NEWS STILL LYING swung into the Hoover column, we hasten to congratulate you and your fellow­ Stating that Dr. John Roach Straton and Bishop Cannon are the two most workers on the most wonderful victory you have won. We are proud of you, "militant representatives of the churches" who are fighting to defeat AI Smith. and wish you to know it.'· and that "the voters should know something about these two 'divines'," the H. E. Dawes, Mitchell, South Dakota-"Please accept congratulations on Lu!kin News, always dripping wet~ makes the following statement about Dr. your wonderful victory in Texas. All rejoice over the results and feel confident Straton: that you were a major factor in this accomplishment." "John Roach Stratton is a Republican. H~ is pastor of a Baptist Church A. C. Graham, Kentucky--"Your wire just received and joyfully read. Next in New York City. About one-half of his church members are negroes. Stratton to Kentucky I wanted Texas to line up for Hoover, and so I am rejoicing with is said to favor racial and social equality of whites and blacks. Henc~ his op­ you." position to the Democratic party. Also, Stratton is receiving $500 for ey_ery Senator D. C. McMullen, Florida-"Florida sends greetings to Texas on the speech he makes." achievement of yesterday. It was a victory in which there is glory enough for We have never before seen so many falsehoods stated in such few words. all of us." Dr. Straton, not Stratton, is not a Republican, but a lifelong Southern Demo­ H. T. Laughbaum, Oklahoma-"Congratulations. Hoorah for America and crat, reared in Georgia. Through all his years as pastor in the North, he has Texas-you and I feel 'bully' over Oklahoma and Texas, and you especially, for voted the Democratic ticket straight, ofttimes having to hold his nose, but this is Texas' first time." sticking to the Democratic party because of his interest in the South. E. S. Sh umm'lcer, Indiana-"! want to rejoice with you over the great victory Dr. Straton is pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in New York City, and for God and humanity that was won at the polls yesterday, and to think that there is not a solitary negro member of that church, neither does he, or has he rrexas would break away from its old Democratic moorings sufficiently to vote ever favored racial or social equality. Dr. Straton never received $500 for a down the man who thought more of the sidewalks of New York and the Tam­ speech made during the campaign, but since the campaign ended and doubtless many Tiger than of the flag of the country. You have fought a splendid up­ because of the speeches he made, a hotel worth $150,000 which he had bought hill' battle amid great handicaps, and to you, and men like you, goes more of on the shores of Lake Greenwood in New York, in order to establish a summer the credit than goes to us in such a state as Indiana." · · Bible school, has been burned. Twice before, the element backed by Tammany R. N. Holsaple, Michigan-"Congratulations multiplied on the magnificent attempted to burn his home in New York City. showjncr made by Texas in yesterday's election." The Lufkin News, in its reference to Bishop Cannon supporting the "Quart Ja:Zes K. Shields, New Yor l~ City-"I-Iearty congratulations on the outcome Jaw," failed to give the whole truth, and a half truth is sometimes the worst of the election. I h ave been telling people for more than a month that Texas kind of falsehood. Bishop Cannon supported the campaign for a quart law would go for Hoover. They thought I was, in the language of Smith, 'bug­ when the wets were opposing it, and he supported it as one of the dry leaders, house) ·wen, anyway, the whole United States stands astounded at what has and as preferable to the saloon. The Lufkin News' statement referring to happened." Bishop Cannon, that his "party affiliation ls not known," is another falsehood, .Jl.!arn a s. Poulson, New Jerscy-"Just a hurried note to congratulate you unless it be due to the crass ignorance of the Lufkin News. Every intelligent upcn the outccme of the election. The result in your state is a wonderful man knows that he is an ardent Democrat. During the last campaign, and tribute to the effectiveness of ou.:;.· general plan." frequently before it, the wets were continuously saying that the men affiliated s. E. Nicholson, New York-"Heart.iest congratulations upon the Hoover with the Anti-Saloon League were all Republicans, but made an exception of victory in your stat e. It is almost unbelievable to us here in the North. You Bishop Cannon. We want to say that there is not a word of truth in that have put up a hard fight, and you are entitled to the fullest credit." ctJ,arge. The Anti-Saloon League is represented in the South almost entirely c. c. Jesse, Illinois-"Accept my congratulations. All the northern states, by Democrats, and many of those connected with the Anti-Saloon League in save two, congratulate Texas· and other states of the South for your courage the North are Democrats. Of course, there are doubtless more Republicans and convictions. VIe in the North do not look upon this as a Republican vic­ than Democrats connected with the Anti-Saloon League, for there are about tory, but as a great American victory." eight million more Republicans than Democrats in the country. Parker Shields. ~'I i s s 2 l.e i -" Ycu have cr-:rtainly wen a great victory in the May we kindly ask of the Lufkin News one question? When Bishop Can­ 'Lone Star State.' VIc fcu.nd o urs~l v c s almost belisving that Texas would go for non was fighting for the "Quart law," what was the e~tor of the Lufkin News -Hoover, and then we could n c:t b rin ~ ourselves to think it was possible. When doing? Was he not running a saloon? If so, common decency would shut his the first reports came in giving the stat~ to Smith, we had a deep feeling of mouth of any critiGism of Bishop Cannon. Page Six

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Canada has also imitated the first two United Stat~s prohibition surveys. ~Y 0 reason why organized wets of the United States we::e so certain they would win year's election with a political party back of them, IS bec.ause they felt that subsiding within a decade. The foreign countries which also adopted prohibi­ t~ tion coincident with the World War have practically all abandoned it already. the cycle of ten years since the Eighte.enth Amend~ent was subrmtted would see the action against prohibition making dec1ded and decisive headway. . Election day in November 1928 will mark t~e .teD:th anniversary of the p~ak re Th wet organizations had everything in rea~iiness for a clean-up this y~ar, and of the prohibition wave in this country. This mdi~a~es t~at any party which the De~ocratic party and its candidate for Pr~s1dent ~ent t~emse~ves ~o their plans, places its reliance in 1928 on the former dry maJonty, Is alm?st sure to be backed by many wet Republicans. The story IS told m Irvmg Fishers latest. book, disillusioned. The wet states include most of the large states with lar~e ~locs "P h"b"t" st·11 At Its Worst" now off the press. In one chapter the story leading up of electoral votes, and many of them are not merely wet, but so overwhe.:t~u.ngly \ ro I 1 10n 1 . · · h. h k ·t as I·nter·estinrr wet that the result in such states is likely to tum solely on the pre" lbitmo \ to and including the recent campaign IS told m a way w IC rna es 1 .,. question. As to the dry states, it is doubtful whether more than a handful as any piece of tiction. . . M According to wets, the cycle of prohibitiOn lasts not to exceed ten ye~rs. ore still have bone-dry majorities. ANOTHER WET ORGANIZATION frequently they claim it is less. The Moderation League before the openm!? .of the The wet Association Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment also rested its hopes 1928 campaign in a pamphlet widely circulated p~inted ~ut that 12 o! the - ongi:U~l. 13 on the "ebbing wave" theory of prohibition, and in November of last year called for a· states to adopt statutory prohibition abandoned It, leavmg only Mam~ .. P_roi:1b1t10n campaign fund of $3,000,000 to urge a national referendum at Washington. That wet. lasted an average of 7.9 years in Tilinoi&; Massachusetts ,Rhode Is~an~, MISSISSIPPI, Co_n­ necticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and New York, while m New Hampshire society also saw in the 1928 platforms of both parties a declaration that would further lt extended from 1855 to 1903, and in Vermont from 1852 to 1903. a referendum. . THE MOVEMENT OF EARLY '80's Senator ;Bruce, of Maryland, defeated at the recent e~ection, early in this year ad­ vised carrying the wet fight and dry fight into the presidential election of 1928. "We: Then came the movement in the early '80's wntch closed saloons in Kansas, Iowa, must do this," Senator Bruce said, "for the sake of the cumulative effect on the public and the two Dakotas. Kansas remained dry and so did North Dakota. The average mind between now and the conventions. We can never win this fight except in a time of prohibition in the other states was 7.3 years. . . presidential campaign, for at no other time are the voters sufficiently interested to Taken from 1907 to 1912, a prohibition wave, as the Moderatl~n Lea~u~ p_hr~sed It, make a real fight. The Democrats must have a wet candidate and a wet platform in abolished the saloon in Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, North Qarolma, MISSISSippi, Ten- which they will declare in so many words for modification of the law ftlong the lines nessee, and West Virginia. In that group only Alabama went back ~o boo~e. . suggested by the New York referendum." · _ In 1914 five st.ates ~. dopted prohibition, and then others came. m rapid ~uccession This idea of Senator Bruce and the wet organization was carried out. The national to the period 9f National Prohibition, when 46 of the 48 states ratified the Eighteenth Democratic party at its convention in I:Iouston, nominated Governor Smith, of New Amendment. . York, for President. The Governor accepted the nomination but only after he had The Moderation League cites Canadian provinces as showing the cy~le of proh~b~­ changed the platform of his party on the liquor question. Then he made John Raskob, tton, five provinces having adopted it, only to abando~ it. The avera!?e hfe of prohi_bi­ a -Republican, his campaign manager. Raskob is high in the councils of the Association tion in these provinces was 7.6 years. The Moderation League ascnbes the adoption Against the Prohibition Amendment, and he promised to get back of Smith's campaign of prohibition in the United States as being due to the "hysteria of war," and figured in order to "relieve the country of the damnable affliction of prohibition.'' that hysteria would be due to pass in 1928. RESULT IS KNOWN Further evidence of the ebb of prohibition in the United States is seen by the The world knows the ·result. Smith carried eight of the 48 states of the Union. The Moderation League in a referenda in several states in recent :years. The Leagu~, how­ result is disheartening to the wets, who ever since the national convention of 1924 were ever, did not judge the effect of the fact that these referenda did not mean anytlu~g be­ busy in laying their plans for capturing the convention of this year, and nominating cause of the senseless manner in which they were proposed and the further fac" that a candidate who would appeal to the wet vote ot the country. The campaign was made drys did not participate. Looking forward to the general election this year, the Mod- on the modification of the Volstead law, and also on the modification of the Eighteenth eration League said: · Amendment. It failed in a landslide vote. It is another instance of the false prophesy WHAT MODERATION LEAGUE SAYS of wet leaders that ten years is the length of time prohibition would hold its own in When considering our prospects for 1928, the political parties will consider America. . ~ that in the first two United States prohibition surveys, the dry majorities Prohibition is still going strong, but what about the wet leaders who designed other­ changed to wet majorities within a decade. The contemporai).eous survey in wise?

one hundred and thirty-seven years ago. This first amendment provided three big HOW TO "TAKE THE CHURCH OUT OF POLITICS" things: Separation of Church and State; CHIGAGO JUSTICE freedom of speech and of the press; and Prominent Chicago Pastor Reviews a Little History in Relating Why the the right to peaceably assemble and peti­ The whole country is astounded and Wets are So Furious at the Church; He Tells Them How tion the government for redress of disguested with a recent case of miscar­ grievances. to Get the Church Out of the Fight Don't forget it was the free churches riage of justice in a Chicago court. This that brought all this about. During case is a complete answer to the question, Dr. M.P. Boynton, pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church, Chicago, ?as fld the churches how to combine stitution. Ten amendments were made that any President has ever r~ceived? portunity like that go by without ma~ ' against the liquor business. Since then at that same time, December 15, 1791. Were their people also bigots?. the dry law the goat? · Page Seven

organizations and ask yourself if you have encourage any one to think that it is WETS REPORT HUGE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS done all you ought to do in giving finan­ either smart or clever, either courageous cial support to this organization, the Anti­ or honorable, to outwit your government. Saloon League, which is feared by the Don't excuse the bootlegger or his patron. ~ssociation Against Prohibition Amendment Spent $283,277 from January 1 wets more than any single dry organiza­ Don't vilify enforcement officers who are to October 22; Pierre S. duPont Biggest Giver, Contributing Over tion in the United States. The fact is trying to do what the law requires them that wet leaders are unanimous in the ·to do and what they have sworn to do. If $30,000; Anti-Saloon League Reports $47,151 Expended opinion that the only thing that stands you want to castigate any of them, try it between them and their success in de­ on those who are shirking their duty. Statements of receipts and expenditures capped, howevc, by lack of funds, for stroying the national prohibition policy is Don't caricature or cast aspersions upon by the Anti-Saloon League of America and money is needed to conduct a compre­ the Anti-Saloon League. Wasn't it the those private citizens who are not only the Association Against the Prohibition hensive educational campaign for the pur­ New York World, that most aggressive wet obeying the law but trying to help the Amendment were filed November 1 with pose of bringing about better enforcement newspaper, that said, "to bring back the government. This will not weaken their the clerk of the House of Representatives. and better observance of this law. return of the liquor traffic, the wets must determination, it will only encourage law­ · The Association Against the Prohibition Look again at the reports of these two first kill off the Anti-Saloon League"? breakers and add to the cost of enforce­ Amendment is the wet organization most ment. In short, throw your vast in­ prominent and most active in the fight to r ======:tluence on the side of your government restore the liquor traffic to the United and not against it. Help the government States. This organization, according to the in the carrying out of this "great social statements filed with the clerk of the An Appeal to the Press of the United States, Especially experiment, noble in purpose, and far­ liouse of Representatives, received since reaching in results"; or, at least, :lon't January 1, 1928, $316,487, and had spent encourage active resistance to your own $283,277. 0 to the Papers Unfriendly to Amendment XVIII government. The Anti-Saloon League of America re­ THOMAS NIXON CARVER ported that it had collected $56,299, and had spent $47,151 since January 1, 1928. [The following address of Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor of Political Science, WILL THE WETS TRY AGAIN? ' Each report included figures up to Octo­ Harvard College, was delivered at a "Dry Dinner" of the Anti-Saloon League of America ber 22. at the City Club of Boston, December 10, 1928, to over seven hundred leading citizens New York "Times" Says Raskob The statements gave the names of cer­ of the Massachusetts capital. It was received with tremendous applause.] tain large contributors. The largest con­ To the Editors: You may not be con- seems to be as popular as prohibition, you May Continue to Head Party tribution reported by the Anti - Saloon vinced by the election that the country is have, in the language of the street, and Another Wet Candidate League was $3,000. The Association Against overwhelmingly dry. There were too "another think coming." the Prohibition Amendment named con­ many other factors in the campaign to INSURRECTION AND ACQUIESCENCE Run in 1932 tributors giving sums ranging from $1,000 establish that as a demonstrated fact. There is only one honorable choice be­ to as much as $30,682 each. Included in You must be convinced, however, that the fore you, that is, between insurrection and · The New York Times, of December 4, its contributors are the names of promi­ country is not overwhelmingly wet. Pro­ says that friends of Governor Smith are· acquiescence. Active nullification of an far from being convinced that the wet nent brewers and brewers' associations. hibition was certainly one of the most active law amounts to insurrection. It is talked-about issues of the campaign. The and dry controversy became a defunct po­ PIERRE S. DUPONT GIVES $30,000 actively resisting the active efforts of the litical issue with the defeat of the Gov­ outcome certainly indicates to any reason­ government to enforce it. It is an appeal Also is found the name of Pierre S. du­ able person that the country is not wet ernor last November. These friends are Pont of General Motors, credited with the to what some have called the "glorious said to be prepared to renew their fight in enough to repeal the Eighteenth Amend­ right of revolution." It is an attempt, by largest single donation of $30,682. John J. ment, or even seriously to modify the dry the 1932 presidential year with a wet the method of brealcing heads, to regain standard-bearer. Raskob, campaign manager for Governor laws. At any rate, it is not likely that any what you have lost by the method of Smith, gave $15,833. It will be recalled "They plan to name a candidate," says candidate for the presidency will again counting heads. That has been tried that Mr. Raskob is the vice president of stake his success on a program of repeal the Times, "who will not be attacked on many times before, usually without suc­ the religious issue," to which they largely the Association Against the Prohibition or modification, much less on a program cess. Amendment. of nullification. attribute this year's Democratic disaster. WHY NOT BE GOOD SPORTS? They say that another four years under Irene duPont gave $16,333 and Lamont MODIFICATION UNPOPULAR duPont gave $15,833, making a total of al­ And why not acquiesce? Why not be prohibition will convince the voters that most $63,000 contributed by the duPont To those who take the position that the good sports? Democrats have acquiesced Governor Smith's contention that drastic family. In other words the duPont fam­ country is still wet in spite of the returns, in the defeat of Governor Smith as the changes in the prohibition law are essen­ ily gave the Association Against the Pro­ there is not much that can be said. Republicans would have acquiesced, had tial, and that with a clear-cut wet and hibition Amendment $15,133 more than the "None is so blind as he who will not see ... Mr. Hoover been defeated. With almost dry issue before the public the wets will Anti-Saloon League of America spent dur­ When we consider the great personal the entire metropolitan press of the coun­ win. These friends of the New York ing the period reported. popul:;~, rity of Governor Smith, the mild­ try against prohibition, see how little in­ Governor think he is the man best fitted Other large contributors to the wet or­ ness of his proposals in the ~ay of modifi­ fluence you have had. If the Anti-Saloon to restore the liquor traffic to the United ganization are Larz Anderson of \Vash­ cation, his remarkable skill as a cam­ League could "put across" prohibition, and . States but reluctantly admit that the rift paigner, and the vigor \Vith which he if the united power of th~ metropolitan in the solid South, if nothing else, has ington, D. c., $1,500; California Brewers' argued for the Canadian system of dis­ Association, San Francisco, $1,500; George press could not defeat it, or ~ven pro­ eliminated him. pensing liquor, we can not find any suffi­ duce any noticeable diminution in its RASKOB MAY CONTTNUE Ehret, New York, $1,000; William Gam­ cient reason for his overwhelming defeat men, Providence, R. I., $2,500; Fred Pabst, popularity, what a humiliation that would John J. Raskob, Republican manager of except the fact that the countr3 is dry, or be. for the metropolitan press. As a mat­ Governor Smith's campaign for the presi­ Milwaukee, $2,000; Piel Bros. Inc., Brook­ at least not wet enough to induce a ma­ lyn, $1,000; Thomas W. Phillips, Butler, ter of fact the rising tide of opposition to dency, and national chairman of the jority to vote for him and his proposals. Democratic National Committee, may P~nnsylvania, $3,333, and numerous other drink is due to the factors which lie By what person, or under What circum­ deeper than Anti-Saloon Leagues or continue to hold his position during the subscriptions of $1,000 to $2,500 each. It ctances, could a proposal for modification will be observed that there are the names metropolitan dailies. Such agencies can next four years. Democratic leaders are be more favorably presented to the Amer­ accelerate or retard a· movement of this divided in opinion as to the wisdom of of numerous brewers listed as liberal do­ ican public? If Governor Smith could not nators to this wet organization. kind. They can neither start nor stop it. this wet Republican continuing as na­ make modification popular, who could? Why have those who favored it seemed to tional chairman. Some want him to go The Association Against the Prohibition Does any other candidate want to try it? Amendment has made many wild state­ succeed? Because the current was mov­ and perhaps many more want him to stay, ments concerning the alleged millions of ACCEPT THE WILL OF THE ing in their direction. Why have those thinking that he will raise the $1,200,000 MAJORITY who opposed it failed? They were trying deficit in the committee's pocketbook. dollars collected by the Anti-Saloon League However, an insistent cry has been raised for its campaign uses. It is vociferously To those who despise the kind of people to stem a resistless current. "The stars in declared that they are in no way con­ who constitute the majority, or who voted their course fought against Sisera." by certain Democratic leaders in the The tragedy of Governor Smith's South, according to the New York Times, nected with the outlawed liquor interests for Mr. Hoover, there is this to be said. notably Senator Simmons, of North Caro­ of this nation. It is interesting to note, If we are to have democracy at all, we astounding and overwhelming defeat lay however, that whether they have any of­ must accept the will of such majorities as in his utter inability to understand the lina, and G?vernor Dan Moody, of Texas, American people. He simply could not for the retirement of Mr. Raskob. His ficial connection or not, the brewers are we have. When we accept the fact that present term will not terminate until giving them ample financial assistance. the government must be in the hands of believe that any considerable number of people were really dry. His surroundings after the next Democratic national con­ COMPARE THESE REPORTS the common people, we must realize that vention. these "hayseeds," these "country yokel," made it impossible for him to see that A comparison of these reports as filed fact. Maybe you and other editors of There is some talk that Governor-elect with the clerk of the House of Represen­ these church-going people are the com­ Roosevelt, of New York, is the logical can­ mon people, they are the masses. If you metropolitan dailies are in the same posi­ tatives shows that this is not a battle of are a democ:rat at all, you must accept. tion. If so, God help you! didate of the Democratic party for the dollars. If it were, our fight might be lost, YOU CAN'T STOP THEM presidency in 1932. Roosevelt fully en­ for these ousted liqu9r makers and liquor their will in matters of government. If dorsed Governor Smith's wet stand and sellers and their friends are willing to fill . you are not willing to do that, you If the Ame1ican people are really deter­ declared that he would oppose any at­ the campaign coffers to overflowing. should frankly advocate a monarchy, an mined to go on with prohibition, you tempt to enact a prohibition enforce­ But there are some things that money aristocracy, or the dictatorship of a can't stop them. You can make it more ment law in New York. cannot do, no matter how liberally ex­ minority. difficult of enforcement, you can compel CAN'T SCARE THE PEOPLE the government to appropriate a few extra pended. For instance, it cannot make the FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN wage earner, who in the days of the cor­ To the frank and open nullificationists, millions of dollars, and put a few extra ner saloon left a large share of his pay there is also something to be said. If the thousands of men into the enforcement Here is a bit of testimony from Theo­ check with the bartender but who now is American people are really determined work, but you can't stop it. Whatever dore A. Lothrop, general secretary of the putting his surplus into a savings account actively to support the prohibitory law, other faults and weaknesses the American Massachusetts Society for the Prevention and the building and loan associations you are not ignoring a forgotten law, you people may have, they are not cowards; of Cruelty to Children, says a correspon­ and into the purchase of necessaries for are actively opposing your own govern­ they are not likely to back down just be­ dent of the Chicago Daily News. ML his home, believe that he was happier and ment and its officers when you try to cause enforcement is difficult. This is es­ Lothrop says: pecially true of the country people, the "Our experience based upon a yearly more prosperous in those days than he is nullify this law. You will, in fact, if you "country yokels,'' as some find comfort in now. It cannot erase from memory of are a nullificationist, be in active rebel­ average of more than 5,000 families, thousands of mothers and wives the anxi­ lion against the government in its active calling them. They were brought up on shows that through prohibition with its ety and heartache ef those license days enforcement or attempt at enforcement difficulties, they have been facing and elimination of the saloon, the family man when the saloon was accessible to sons of the law. Do you want to put yourself conquering them for generations. Please is far less intemperate, his wife and note especially that they are not likely to children far more likely to be supplied and husbands who were victims of the al­ in that position? back down just because you and the smart with the necessities, more of tl~e com­ coholic habit. If you want the Americans to fora-et the set insist on calling them bad names. Even though the money comes from the prohibitory law, you will not succeed by forts and some of the luxuries of life than duPonts and the Raskobs, it cannot per­ active disobedience or defiance. That OUR APPEAL before, and the sum total of child abuse suade intelligent men and women to be­ will only create a more active deter­ Our appeal is simply this: Don't aid and neglect caused by intemperance has · lieve that the country would be safer with mination. Don't try to scare the Amer­ and abet those who are actively breaking been reduced by more than half. As we more liquor sold to those driving motor ican people or their government. If you a law which your government is actively see it, prohibition has contributed enor­ cars than is now sold under prohibition. think that you can, by open disobedience trying to enforce. Don't muddle the mously to the freedom and happiness of This does not mean that the Anti-Sa· or defiance, cause the people or the gov­ minds of your readers by confusing an children, the upbuilding of family life Joan League of America should be handi· ernment to forget or repeal a law which active· law with an obsolete law. Don't and the general good ot the communit~"·· HOME AND STATE

In an editorial of October 23, it stated, referrir.g to itself, "This country ' BROWNWOOD BULLETIN ON THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE editor ... is just as dry as any hundred-percenter living south of the Mason.. The wets have "cussed" the League so much, and the Anti-Saloon League Dixon line." has been too busy, as Bishop DuBose says, "grooming the white steeds of Prince We will not impugn the motives of the editor of the Bulletin, but he will Ema-nu.el to take time to curry the devil's :.'lckasses," until they presume that find it hard to make the readers of his paper believe this statement so long as they have a right to say anything, regardless of its truth, about the Anti-Saloon he continues to turn the guns upon the organization that above any other is League. Of course, the public know just how much credit to give what they fighting to maintain prohibition. • have to say, and usually give so little credit to their charges that they are During the World war it was reported that frequently soldiers had personal dumfounded to see the Anti-Saloon League marching from one victory to an­ grudges against their officers. When these officers were leading their men to other in spite of all the vilification they heap upon the League. battle in the thick of the conflict these soldiers with personal grudges sought It is unfortunate when, as occasionally happens, a prohibitionist is encour­ an opportunity to shoot their officers in the back. When the battle for prohi.. aged by the vilification of the wets to join in with the same line of falsehoods, bition wages hot, and the Anti-Saloon League, faithful to its constitu.ency, is presuming that because it is the Anti-Saloon League that he can do so with im­ leading the assault upon the enemy, so long as the Brownwood Bulletzn ~eeks punity. such opportunity, as it has frequently done in the past, to shoot the Anti-Sa­ We have always been fond of the editors of the Brownwood Bulletin, even loon League in the back as it charges the stronghold of the wets, the readers of when they filled their columns with misrepresentations of the League, until it. the. Bulletin will be inclined to question the sincerity of its profession of dryness. was nauseating. In order that they may be misled no longer, we need to call the public's attention to some of their gross misrepresentations of the Anti­ Saloon League in the recent campaign. In its issue of October 18, under the subject "Political Hypocrisy," referring to the League it stated editorially that THE DISPENSARY SYSTEM "It is a. political organization, just as corrupt as the average political organi­ zation, and just as insincere as the average political organization." (The Dallas Dispatch) This is clearly. a charge that the Anti-Saloon League is corrupt and insin­ America need not go to Europe or Canada for enlightenment as to the work.. cere. This charge of corruption, if it is maintained, must be maintained ings of a government liquor dispensary system such .as Governor Smith pro­ against those in charge of the Anti-Saloon League, .for no one else is respon­ posed. The experiment has been tried in the United States. The Governor aU sible for its "corruption" except these in charge. not mention this fact in his speeches advocating this plan. He did not review So the Brownwood Bulletin is simply bringing the charge of corruption and the experiment in South Carolina, started in 1893 and abandoned in 191~, by a insincerity against the officers of the Anti-Saloon. League. vote of the people of the state which showed 71 per cent against the system Now let the readers turn to page four cf this issue, at the top of the first to 29 per cent for it. And it was just two years after this that South Carolina column, and study the persons thus charged with corruption and insincerity. registered as the fourth state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment. Before we do so, however, let us call attention to the fact that these officers of What happened under the South Carolina dispensary system? It devel­ the Anti-Saloon League of Texas are not figureheads or wax men. Each of oped a political machine that for years· controlled the politic,1 of the state. In them is responsible for his ovvn act, and each of them take a vital interest and the six years prior to its adoption convictions were obtained in 52 per cent of have a part in determining the policies of the Anti-Saloon League of Texas, the criminal cases tried. In the six-year period following its adoption, only and each of them take part in annual reviev1s of the conduct of the Superin­ 24 per cent of the cases resulted in conviction. Blind tigers and bootleggers tendent, and checking over everything that 'is done. So the Brownwood Bulle­ thrived selling diluted whisky, and it is reported there were 208 blind tigers in tin's charge, that the Anti-Saloon League is corrupt and insincere, they must Charleston, with a population of 55,000. The dispensary system soon surren­ be able to maintain against the officers of the League, or eJse in ccmmon de­ dered to the illegal and left these places practically unmolested if their liquor cency they owe an apology to each individual m ::: mber against whom they can­ was obtained through the dispensary. The provision for the signing of an ap­ not maintain a charge of corruption or insincerity. The President of the Anti­ plication for liquor was soon disregarded. Dispensaries were placed without Saloon League is Judge M. A. Childers, of Gan Antonio, Texas, and most out­ regard for the will of the majority of citizens in a county. Government of the standjng layman of the Methodist Church in the \Vest Texas conference, and state fell into the hands of its worst element, and was rendered almost im­ probably no layman of any church in South Texas carries a greater weight of potent. And the people of South Carolina revolted. influence nor has the confidence of the people of South Texas more completely than has Judge Childers. \Vill the BTownwood Bulletin attempt to maintain - But Governor Smith did not cite thi.s twenty-two-year experiment in this the charge of corruption against its 'readers to sustaiD. ag::dnst each member of this Execu­ "We notice in the papers that the churchwomen of Dallas were vel'y angry tive Committee its charge of them being corrupt and insincere, or it owes an with one Atticus \Vebb, because of the way he is distributing funds that were apology to each of them, if it would retain the respect of its readers. supposed to be used for the Anti-Saloon League. He is giving these fund~ freely \Ve have not tin1e to enumerate the men1.bers of the Board of Managers. to the cause of the Republican party, and they are rightfully resenting it.'' The reader can scan them as listed in the HoME AND STATE, and if they are at all What the Holland Progress does not know would make volum::s. Thi ~ state­ familiar with the outstanding leaders of the various evangelical churc.he,c; of ment that "the churchwomen of Dallas," etc., indicating that it was ~niversal, Texas, they can easily determine the veracity of the Brownwood Bulletin in its or practically· so, when there were only six who signed it, and p1oba1Jly t.wc of charge that they are men who are corrupt and insincere, for the Bulletin can­ them were members of the church, but none of them very active in churr.,l \Vorl;,;:. not maintain its charge that the Ant>Saloon League is corrupt and insince:re The Holland Progress' reference to the Anti-Salqon League U'3ing its funct~ without attaching the same corruption and insincerity to each mEjmber of the for the Republican party, ~xposes its crass ignorance. It might have klVhvn, if Board of Managers. it had sought the truth, that the Anti-Sal0on League of Texas was not per­ Let them not attempt to maintain that these members of the Board are mitted to use a dollar of its funds in the campaign to defeat the reprcs n•ative figureheads, for such a statement would be false to 'commence with. of the outlawed liquor traffic, the Tammany candidate furnished th~ D·emo • We might single out that member of the Board of Managers representing cratic party. It might have known, if it had sought the tr-uth, that itN ex·pencli-. the same congressional district in which the Brownwood Bulletin is published, tures were limited solely to funds contributed for the speci'ic purpos ..... of the namely, Dr. J. D. Sandefer, of Simmons University of Abilene, probably the campaign, and that not a dollar of the regular funds of the ·League were so most outstanding la,yman of the Baptist Church in Texas. Will the Brownwood spent. Ignorant people should investigate before speaking. · Bulletin undertake to sustain its charge against Dr. Sandefer a~ being corrupt VIe wonder what the Holland Progress thought of the funds contrlbut:;d by and insincere, or will it apologize as a decent paper should? the Tammany Democrats in Texas being used to carry on a campaign to get In the same editorial the Bulletin says, "If the Anti-Saloon League is right, the negroes to vote for Al Smith. \Ve understand that the sworn reports of Sir then this newspaper is wrong." The Bulletin may console itself by thinking John Raskob made to Congress indicate that at least $75,000 of the so-called the public will conclude that "this newspaper is wrong," but we are of the "democratic" money was turned over to the negroes. opinion that the public will form a conclusion that may be expressed in tne But going back to the church ladies in Dallas, read that 10,000 m.ajol'ity simple language that it has simply "lied" on the Anti-Saloon League. We Dallas ga\re for Hoover and you will find the answer of the Dallas churchwomen might have said uprevaricated," but the Bulletin might not have understood the to the charges brought by those six women, wh!~h statement was so eagerly meaning of that word. culped down by the wet newspapers.