Show I SALOON ANTI LEAGUE BIG DAIVE IN UTAH DR LOUIS ALBERT BANKS TO AD I DRESS SEVENTY FIVE NATIONAL DRY RALLIES IN UTAH National Dry Leaders With Utah Fed Fed- oration of Betterment Leagues to toLIne toLine toLine Line Up the State Behind the National National Na Na- Prohibition Project The Saloon Anti League of America the Nemesis of or the saloons throughout through through- out the nation encouraged by their wonderful success in cleaning the saloons sa ea loons out of or state after atter state are now tIo I planning and executing a a. nation wide movement mo looking to the submission U to the states s1 of or an amendment to the federal constitution outlawing intoxicants intoxicants intoxicants cants throughout the nation For years this organization has been leading up to this movement but now the tho time Ume is considered ripe for fora a drive In this the states that have already outlawed tho the saloon are taking the lead because the states that still have the the license s system stem are bending their efforts for state wide prohibition for tor their own state It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is because of or this fact that the dry states and those that have voted dry dor but whose laws have not yet gone Into effect are taking the lead lend The leaders say that this campaign h Is IE not so BO much for creating sentiment as to organize and direct the sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment went already created and make It U. a ac c driving force to attain tho the desired result In the nation To Campaign In Utah The national organization acting in operation co-operation with the Utah Federation of ot Betterment Leagues of or which Hon Honn lIeber leber J. J Grant Is president is now preparing for a speaking campaign in practically every town and city in Utah of ot a population of and upwards upwards upwards up up- wards with the tile Idea of giving Utah a place in the sun in the nation wide contest which Is approaching If congress con conn tress gress fess does not submit the amendment rW W r Dr Purley A A. Baker General Superintendent Superintendent Su Suo Saloon Anti League of ot America at ads this session i ch is Ts considered conSid r a doubtful tho the gr great t drive will be made blade to compel Its Us submission next rear year Dr Louis Loula Albert Banks Danks one of ot the strongest speakers connected with the tte organization atlon will begin his speaking speak speak- speaking ing 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 Young Yog university Dr Banks anks first week will be speaking In Ca Cache Cacho i county after which he will travel south speaking In every town and city This speaking campaign will cover about seventy-five seventy different dates and will continue until the middle of June dune by which time it is expected Utah people will wUl know all there that at ti national prohibition Ms Is' Is Isto to know about I r frIt J v b by c w y f s s 0 r. r t f L l Dr Louis Albert Banks National Speaker to address s seventy seventy- T League Lea live rallies in Utah r. r and Intelligent Intelligent- Intelligently t r and and be ready to fight ly back up the tho project for a dry na na- nation tion The rhe Utah Ulah campaign will bo be con ducted Jutted under the local management 01 02 o f Clifford L. L Johnson a young Maryland Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land lawyer who has managed several campaigns of this sort nort for the lea league e and ind is considered an expert at at this kind of or work The whole state from Lewiston on the north to St. St Georgo on the south will be treated to the oratory of or Dr Banks Danke The League a Nation Wide Power The Saloon Anti-Saloon League was origin origin- Lily illy started twenty four years ago by Dr Howard H. H Russell in Ohio as a local lo lo- cal organization From the beginning It las gas adhered to or rather principles urging tho the election of or the mont moat mo t available drys to reg regardless of ot political lonH lions In the beginning ginning b Dr Russell round found great difficulty In getting any sort of ot a hearing He lie was laughed at sneered me at and nd his whole program was regarded as visionary But confident Df f the rectitude of ot his cause he pe per per- Nf 4 s 4 w P 4 C CClifford Clifford L L. Johnson Manager of the Utah National Prohibition Campaign kept on often otten pawning g his life liCe insurance policy and even his watch to secure expense money to take ake him from place to place Dr Russell was a preacher and a pioneer As the league grew In strength and influence the the need need of a militant politician was felt to take I the le lead and Dr Purley A A. Baker of Ohio was chosen to succeed Russell Russells LS Is s the acting executive of the organ organ- directing its political policies nd and organization work while Russell Russen became its chief platform advocate Under the aggressive ministrations Df f Dr Baker the league rapidly grew grewn In n power until now nosy it Is Is' Is second to no of a nature in m the whole country In practically very every state it has a powerful tate state I organization reaching into every lo- lo allty malty It has about fully equipped offices scattered all allover over the country In n the principal cities and maintains astaff a staff taff of or upwards of salaried workers who devote all their time Ume to he the service Literature by the Ton In addition to numerous lion ons throughout tho the country published pub- pub or controlled by the organization lon lion the National League maintains a alaree large arge publishing house bouse at its national headQuarters at Westerville Ohio Ohl known as the American Issue Publish Publish- ng trig Co There about are busy lusy pouring an avera average e of more than three tons of dry literature into the mails every day In campaign times this average often runs up to ten tons dally daily The national org organization also maintains at Washington a staff of agents land and attorneys meys Its Washington Washing Washing- ton quarters occupying nearly a whole floor of the Bliss building facing the capitol It Is la from there that meas meas- measures ares ures In congress are arc promoted and It from rom there that as assistance istance is rendered render render- ed ad friendly congressmen to get reelected reelected reelected re- re elected and it is from there that congressional congressional con con- gressional friends of the liquor traffic ic tic get hard bumps when they come before the people for re Many a congressman gressman co who has tried to Lo o defeat dry measures In Washing Washing- ton on has found himself politically annihilated annihilated an an- when ho he went before his his' people eople for a re-election re and found himself confronted by a crew of dry orators and tons of dry literature opposing opposing op ot- op- op posing his r re The congressional congre congressional districts of ot the nation arc are strewn with the tho political wreckage of ot wet congressmen who have been put putout putout out of commission through the activities activities ties lies of these compactly organized irys Contrary to the general impression the league workers are not highly salaried salaried sal sal- aried men Practically all aU of them are ue working for less money than they could command In other walks of life Ute As a rule none are paid at all except those who abandon their regular means of livelihood and devote their entire time to the work of the organ organ- Not one speech in a hundred given under the auspices of the tho league Is la paid for tor In thousands of cases tho speaker not only gets no pay for his work ork but pays his own expenses besides be be- sides Tho rho Bank of ot England could not pay all these speakers if It they allgot aUgot all aU allgot got Chautauqua salaries says Attorney Atto ney aey C. C L L. Johnson who Is la now planning planning plan plan- nin ning the tho campaign in Utah making dates and local arrangements for tho the national ill dry rallies rames The best way and the only way to put Dut the Saloon Anti-Saloon League out of ot commission Is to put tho the saloon itself out of ot commission The league win will stay as Icing as tho the rum shops arc In existence which wont won't be long says George A. A Startup p pt pf Provo vice nt of the Utah Federation of ot Betterment Leagues Which v is working in conjunction with the Saloon Anti-Saloon league teague of America and Is la recognized as ILS Its ita spokesman In this state |