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Show ANTI-SALOQN LEAGUE BIG DUN UTAH DR. LOUIS ALBERT BANK8 TO AD. DRESS 8EVENTY.FIYE NATIONAL DRY RALLIE8 IN UTAH. National Dry Leader With Utah Fed-ration Fed-ration of Betterment League to Line Up the 8Ute Behind the National Na-tional Prohibition Project The Anti-Saloon League of America, the Nemesis of the saloons throughout through-out the nation, encouraged by their wonderful success in cleaning tho saloons sa-loons out of state after state aro now planning and executing a nation wido movement looking to the submission to the states of an amendment to tho federal constitution outlawing intoxicants intoxi-cants throughout tho nation. "For years, this organisation has been leading up to this movement but now tho time Is considered ripe for a "big drive." In tills, the states that have already outlawed tho saloon are taking tho lead because Mho states that still have tho Hcenso system are bending their efforts for stato wide prohibition for their own stato. It Is bdeause of this fact that tho dry states and thoso that havo voted dry but whoso laws havo not yet gone Into effect are taking tho lead. The" leaders say that this campaign Is not so much for creating sentiment ns to organlzo and dlroct tho sentiment senti-ment already created and mako it n driving force to attain the desired result In tho nation. To Campaign In Utah. The natlonnl organization, acting In co-operation with tho Utah Federation of Betterment Leagues of which Hon. Heber J. Grant, is president, is now preparing for a speaking campaign in practically every town and city in Utah of a population of E00 and upwards up-wards with tho idea of giving Utah a place in tho sun In tho nation wido contest which Is approaching. If con-gross con-gross docs not submit tho amendment aH , x'VmminSS' vl BBBBBJ BLfBBBM ijf tt44TaULS& " ' feBBBBBBK Dr. i'urloy A. Baker, General Superintendent Su-perintendent Anti-Saloon Lcaguo of America. ,' at this session, which Is considered doubtful, tho great drlvo will bo' mado to compel its submission next year. Dr. Louis Albert Banks, ono of tho strongest speakers connected with tho organization will begin his speaking speak-ing campaign in Utah on April S at Logan, whero two initial rallies will bo held, ono In tho First Methodist church and ono In Nibley Hall of Brlgham Young university. Dr. Banks first week will bo speaking In Cncho county, after which ho will travel south, speaking In overy town and city. This speaking campaign will cover about soventy-nvo different dates and will contlnuo until tho middle of Juno, by which time It is oxpectod that Utah people will know nil there is to know about natlonnl prohibition l-.......M MIII.IIIMIII I'llllllHMIMiMIIII lliyMiH Br. Louis Albert Banks, National Lo.-ikuo Speaker to address seventy-five seventy-five rallies in Utah. i and lio ready to fight nnd intelligent-' intelligent-' ly back up tho project for a dry na I tion, Tho Utah campaign will be conducted con-ducted under tho local management of Cltfford L. Johnson, a young Marp I land lawyer who has man a god several M campaigns of this sort for the league and is considered an expert at thbi I kind of work. The whole state from Lewlston on the north to St. George H on the south will bo trcatod to (hi oratory of Dr. Banks. H The League a Nation Wide Power. , H The Anti-Saloon League was origin- H ally started twenty-four years ago b? H Dr. Howard II. Russell In Ohio as a lo- I cal organization. From the beginning It has adhered to nonpartlzan or rather I" omnt parti zan principles, urging the H election of the most available drys to" office regardless of political affllia- tions. In the beginning, Dr. Russell found great difficulty In getting any M MM sort of a hearing. He was laughed at, sneered at and his whole program was VI regarded as visionary. But, confident l of tho rectitude of his cause, he per- Ip, ' BBBBBBBBBPp i BbjBJ B J HBBBat 'w4 1 , B Bf J BBBBBBJBwi--' " V Hi HB&- ,,' , J If BagrjaBBHagafe'- ?. J-rsi. JH aayiayMKBMKaL mvif m lw 'BTaiaK?'' .aH BBJBBJLv - 7y3nBBTjYjYja SaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaYtflL 9&'sPaiaia. I Clifford L. Johnson, Manager of the I Utah National Prohibition Campaign. slstently kept on, often pawning his I Hfo Insurance) policy nnd even his I watch to securo expenso money to I take htm from place to placo. I Dr. Russell was a "preacher" and a pioneer. As tho league grew la B strength and influence, tho need of a H militant politician was felt to take B tho lead nnd Dr. Purley A. Baker of B Ohio was chosen to succeed Russell B as the acting executive of tho organ- H Izatlon, directing its political policies H and organization work, while Russell Bj beenme its chief platform advocate. BT Under tho aggrosslvo ministrations H of Dr. Baker, the league rapidly grow H in power until now it Is second to no B organization of a nonpartlzan nature B In tho whole country. In practically K every stato, it hag a powerful state K organization, reaching into overy lov V callty. Ii has about 100 fully equlppiBy Mf offices scattered all over tho country iVJ in the principal cities and maintains a m staff of or upwards of 800 salaried B workers who dovote all their tlmo to . BJ tho service. H Literature by the Ton. H In addition to numorous publica- BJ tions throughout the country pub- H Ushed or controlled by tho organ iza- B tlon, tho National Lcaguo maintains a B largo publishing houso nt its national B headquarters at Westorvlllo, Ohio, known as tho American Issuo Publish- Ing Co. Thero about 200 employos aro I I busy pouring nn averago of more than I tl threo tons of dry lltoraturo Into tho I malls overy day. In campaign times, I M this averago often runs up to ten tons I Tho natlonnl organization also I n maintains nt Washington a staff of I U qgents land attorneys, its Washing- 1 1 ! ton quarters occupying nearly a wholo 1 1 floor of tho Bliss building facing tho fcj cnpltol. It Is from thcro that mcas- 1 tires in congress nro promoted and it jj from thoro thntasslstanco is render- K cd friendly congressmen to get re- U olectod nnd It Is from thero that con- Jp gresslonnl friends of the liquor trot- M lie got hard bumps when they come It boforo the peoplo for re-olcctlon. I Many a congressman who has tried I V to defeat dry measures In Washing- I w ton has found himself politically annihilated an-nihilated when he went boforo his peoplo for a ro-olectlon nnd found himself confronted by a crow of dry orators and tons of dry literature opposing op-posing his re-election. Tho congressional congres-sional districts of tho nation aro strewn with tho political wrockago of wet congressmen who havo been put out of commission through tho activities activi-ties of thoso compactly organized drys. Contrary to tho general Impression, tho leaguo workers nro not highly salaried sal-aried men. Practically nil of them aro working for loss money than they could command In othor walks of life. I As a rule, nono aro paid at all except thoso who abandon their regular tncanB of livelihood and dovoto their ontlro tlmo to tho work of tho organization. organ-ization. Not ono speech in a hundred given under tho nusplces of tho leaguo is paid for. In thousands of enses, Jip J speakor not only gets no pay fn?ataH 1 work but pays his own expense'Aie rw, sides. "Tho Bank of England could not pay all theso speakers If they all jot Chautauqua salaries" says Attorney Attor-ney C. L. Johnson who is now planning plan-ning the campaign in Utah, making datos nnd local 'arrangements for the national dry rallies. , "Thji best way and tho only way to put tho Anti-Saloon Lcaguo out of commission Is to put tho saloon Itsolf out of commission. Tho leaguo will stay as long ns tho rum shops aro in existence, which won't bo long," says Georgo A. Startup of Provo, vice-president vice-president of tho Utah Federation of Bettermont Leagues which Is working 'n conjunction with tho Anti-Saloon eague of America and is recognized m Its spokesman in this stato. I 'I i I |