Show r rt t f SALOON ANTI w LEAGUE k BIG nAIVE IN UTAH i. i DR LOUIS ALBERT BANKS TO ADDRESS AD AD- ADDRESS DRESS SEVENTY-FIVE SEVENTY NATIONAL DRY RALLIES IN UTAH rl national 11 Dry Leaders With Utah Federation Fed of Betterment Leagues to toLine Line Up the State Behind the Na Na- Prohibition Project C il 4 1 t. t 1 t. f. The Saloon Anti League of America t the tho Nemesis of ot the saloons throughout through out the tho nation encouraged by their wonderful success in cleaning the saloons saloons sa sa- r. r l loons ons out of or state after state are now I v. v planning and executing a nation wide wider widen n r t. t movement looking ool to the submission J to the states of or an amendment to the federal constitution outlawing r I cants ants throughout the nation For years ears this organization has been leading up to this movement but butr r r f now v tile the time Is considered ripe for tor fora a big drive In this the states that ha have ve ahead already outlawed wed the saloon are taking the lead because the states slates that still have the license system are bending their efforts for state wide prohibition for tor their own state It ItIs Itis is because of this fact tact that the dry states and those that Olat have voted dry b but t whose laws Jaws have not yet et gone c into effect arc are taking the lead The leaders sa say that this campaign f r I Is not so much for creating sentiment cs lS to organize and direct the sentiment senU senti- I ment already created and make it a driving force torce to attain the desired result in the nation To Campaign In Utah The TIle national organization acting In cooperation operation with the Utah Federation of at Betterment Leagues of which Hon lion Heber Reber J. J Grant is president Is now nowr r preparing for a speaking campaign In practically every town and city in Utah of at a population of at and upwards up upS upI upwards I S wards with the idea of or giving Utah a place In the sun in the nation wide contest contest which Is approaching If It congress congress congress con con- gress not submit the amendment I z dh r 1 4 l v r t. t Ly 1 F it I Dr Purley A A. Baker General Superintendent Superintendent Su Suo Saloon Anti League of at America at this session which is la considered doubtful the great drive will be made to compel its submission next year Dr Louis Albert Banks one of the strongest speakers connected with the organization will begin his speaking speak speak- ing lug campaign In Utah on April 8 at Logan where two Initial rallies will willbe willbe be held one in the First Methodist church and one In Nibley Hall of Brigham Y Young ng university Dr Banks first week will be speaking in Cache county after which he will travel south couth speaking In every town and andelt I. I elt city This speaking campaign will cover coveri i J a about out seventy five different dates and will continue until unU the middle of ot 1 June June b by which time It is expected that Utah people will know all there I Is to know about national prohibition i p Rb f 1 r C bs y 4 y v N 1 I k i Dr Louis Albert Banks National League Speaker to address seventy seventy- t five live rallies In Utah ar and be ready to light fight and intelligently intelligent intelligent- ly back up the project to for a dry na na- t tion on The Utah campaign will be conducted con ducted under the local management of Clifford L. L Johnson n a young Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land laud lawyer who has hns managed several campaigns of ot this sort eort for tor tho the league aid ind Is i considered an expert at this tula kind of at work The whole state from Lewiston on the tho north to St. St George Georgeon on the south will be treated to the oratory of Dr Banks The League a Nation Wide Power The Tho Saloon Anti-Saloon League was origin origin- illy started twenty four years yeara ago by Dr Howard H. H Russell in Ohio as a local local local lo lo- cal organization From the beginning it has adhered to non or rather principles urging the election of the moat most available drys to office regardless of political Lions In the beginning Dr Russell found great difficulty in getting any sort of ot a hearing He was laughed at sneered at and his whole program was waE regarded as visionary But Dut confident of ot the rectitude of his cause he per per- Rl m ms I s 3 r I SH Yf lr Clifford L L. Johnson Manager of ot th the Utah National Prohibition Campaign I kept on often orten pawning his life lite fe Insurance policy and even his watch atch to secure expense money to take ake him from place to place Dr Russell was a preacher and a pioneer loneer As the league grew in strength and influence the need of at a e a militant politician was felt to take lie he te lead and Dr Purley Purey A A. Baker of ot OhIo hio was chosen to succeed Russell as 18 3 the acting executive of or the organ- organ directing Its political policies and nd organization work while Russell became Its chief platform advocate Under the aggressive ministrations of f Dr Baker Daker the le league gue rapidly grew In bi power until now It is second to no organization of at a zan nature n rn the whole country In practically very state It ft has a powerful state organization reaching Into every lo- lo allty It h has s about fully equipped offices scattered all over the country In n the principal cities and maintains a aI astaff I staff starr of ot or upwards of at SOO salaried workers who devote all their time to the service Literature by the Ton In addition to numerous publications publications throughout the country published pub lashed or controlled by the organization tion the National League maintains a publishing large large publishing house at Its national headquarters at Westerville Ohio I known as the American IB Issue ue Publishing Publishing Publish Publish- ing Co There about are I busy pouring an a average crago of or more than three tons of or dry literature into the mans malls every day In campaign times this chic a average often orten runs up up to t ten n tons daily dally I The national organization also maintains at Washington a staff of ot agents land jand attorneys Its wasl Washington Washing Washing- ton quarters occupying nearly a whole floor of at tho the Bliss building facing the tile capitol It Is IB from there that measures measures meas meas- I ures In congress are promoted and It from there that assistance is Js rendar- rendar fid nd nd v r-m r lr to tu cei er r re re- I elected ejected ana It is from mere Inns congressional congressional con con- gressional friends of or the liquor traffic traffic fic get hard bumps when the they como comp before the people for tor re Many a congressman who has tried to defeat dr dry measures in Washington Washing has hus found round himself politically ton annihilated an an- when he went before beCore his people for a re election and found round himself confronted by a crew of or dry orators and tons of dry literature opposing opposing op op- posing his bis re The congressional districts of ot the nation are strewn with the political wreckage of or wet congressmen who have hae been put putout putout putout out of at commission through the activities activities ties of these compactly organized drys Contrary to the general impression the league workers are not highly sal pried men Practically all of ot them themire ire are working for tor less mone money than they could command In other walks of ot life lite As a rule none are paid at all nIl except those who abandon their regular means of at livelihood nn and devote their entire time to the work of oC the organization organ organ- tZ Not one speech in a hundred given under the auspices of or the league is Js paid for tor In thousands of or cases tho speaker not only gets no pay for Cor his hia work but pays his Ida own expenses be be- aides The Bank of oi England Englan could 1 not lot pay all these speakers if Ie they all allot allot jot ot Chautauqua salaries says saya Attorney Attorney Atto- Atto ney C. C L. L Johnson who Is now planning planning plan plan- ning the in Utah making lates latos and local arrangements for tor the tho national dry rallies The best wa way and the only way to put the Saloon Anti League out ot of commission is to put the saloon Itself out of or commission Tho The league win stay as long as the tho rum rune shops arc are In la existence which wont won't be long says George A. A Startup of or Provo vice vice- president of or the Utah Federation of or Dett Betterment Leagues which Is Js working in m conjunction with ith the Saloon Anti-Saloon league eague of America and is recognized as SUJ it its ite spokesman In this state |