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Show VOLSTEAD CHANGE 1 WILL BE FOUGHT OPPONENTS OF PROHIBITION AMENDMENT PLANNING ANTI-BEER BILL CAMPAIGN Society Will Enter Home Fields of Senators Who Vote For Bill And Present Matter to Peo-, Peo-, . pie Direct Washington The troubles of Mr. Volstead and the proponents of the "antibeer" bill will be far from ended when that measure Is enacted into law, according to Captain William H. Stay-ton, Stay-ton, founder and executive vice president presi-dent of the National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, who in a statement Sunday, said that if the bill passes the senate and is signed by President Harding, his society soc-iety will immediately bring suit to test its constitptionality, and will carry tha case to the supreme court, if it becomes necessary. " "This litigation," Captain Stayton announced, an-nounced, "will be in charge of a ;ni-mittee ;ni-mittee of prominent lawyers, doctors' and laymen who are members of the association. After the law has been declared unconstitutional, the association associa-tion will go into the districts of the senators and congressmen who voted for it and will point out to their constituents con-stituents that they were duly warned of the unconstitutionality of the bill, and that in spite of the warning and under the lash of the Antisaloon league, they sacrificed the Constitution of the United States and voted improperly." Captain Stayton announced that his association is forming state and local branches throughout the United States, with offices conveniently, located in large cities, and that in addition it is conducting a huge mail campaign from its principal offices at Washington. "Every one of our offices is humming with activity," he stated. "We have already al-ready absorbed the memberships of several of the smaller liberal societies that have been formed in various parts of the country during the past few years, and are this fall launching a nation-wide campaign, which we hope will crystallize and make potent the widespread and rapidly increasing sentiment sen-timent against prohibition." According to Captain Stayton, the present membership of 250,000 only marks the beginning of the work of the association. He expects that more than a million voters will be enrolled by the end of the year, and said that the necessary machinery is now being prepared to organize this voting strength into an effective machine for combating Antisaloon league candidates candi-dates and influence. The literature of the association an- nounces that it is "a nation-wide society soci-ety of reputable citizens who are working work-ing to repeal the ATolstead law, to curb'fanatcism and rule by the minority, minor-ity, and to restore liberty, prosperity and self-respect to America," and that brewers and distillers are debarred from participating in its campaign. The association does not advocate the return of the saloons. Among its prominent members are T. Dewitt Cuyler, Henry E. Drayton, Dr. Charles D. Hart, the Rev. Archibald Campbell Knowles, Dr. Collier F. Mar-ton, Mar-ton, Dr. Charles B. Penrose, Dr. J. N. Deaver and William Jefferson Guernsey Guern-sey of Philadelphia; Stuyvesant Fish, Charles Sabin, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Harrison Grey Fiske, Vincent Astor and Albert H. Atter-bury Atter-bury of New York; R. L. Agassiz, Li. A. Coolidge and Charles S. Rackemann of Boston ; General Felix A. Agnus, Dr. Julius Friedenwald and Waldo Newcomer New-comer of Baltimore ; John A. Roebling and Dr. Hudson M. Aximo of New Jersey; Jer-sey; William P. Eno of Washington and other equally well-known men and women throughout the United States. |