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Show ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE BIG DRIVEIN UTAH DR. LOUIS ALBERT BANKS TO ADDRESS AD-DRESS SEVENTY-FIVE NATIONAL DRY RALLIES IN UTAH. National Dry Leaders With Utah Federation Fed-eration of Betterment Leagues to Line Up the State Behind the 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 the saloons sa-loons out of state after state are now planning and executing a nation wide movement looking to the submission to the states of an amendment to the federal constitution outlawing intoxicants intoxi-cants throughout the nation. For years, this organization has been leading up to this movement but now the time is considered ripe for a '1big drive." In this, the states that have already outlawed the saloon are taking the lead because the states that still have the license system are bending their efforts for state wide prohibition for their own state. It Is because of this fact that the dry states and those that have voted dry but whose laws have not yet gone into effect are taking the lead. The leaders say that this campaign Is not so much for creating sentiment as to organize and direct the sentiment senti-ment already created and make It a driving force to attain the desired result in the nation. To Campaign in Utah. The national organization, acting in co-operation with the Utah Federation of Betterment Leagues of which Hon Heber J. Grant is president, is now preparing for a speaking campaign in Dractically every town and city in Utah of a population of 500 and upwards up-wards with the idea of giving Utah a place in the sun in the nation wide contest which is approaching. If congress con-gress does not submit the amendment ! V j f s Dr. Purley A. Baker, General Su- perintendent Anti-Saloon League of America. I at this session, which is considered doubtful, the great drive will be t made to compel its submission next i year. I Dr. Louis Albert Banks, one of the I strongest speakers connected with I the organization will begin his speak- l bag campaign in Utah on April 8 at I Logan, where two initial rallies will be held, one in the First Methodist church and one in Nibley Hall of t Brigham Young university. Dr. Banks first week will be speaking in Cache county, after which he will travel eouth, speaking in every town and cit. This speaking campaign will cover I about seventy-five different dates and I will continue until the middle of June, by which time it is expected I that Utah people will know all there I Is to know about national prohibition 1 it ' 1 : ' 5 is. , c I ' ' Mr " ,V J - ; k ' . I -A ttj,,, ' A - S i i Dr Louis Albert Ranks, Xauonal Ieairue Speaker to address seventy-J seventy-J five rallies in Utah. J and be ready to fight and intelligent- Z ly back up the project for a dry na- t tion. The Utah campaign will be con- M ductsd under the local management ol Clifford L. Johnson, a young Mary- land lawyer who has managed several j campaigns of this sort for the league i and is considered an expert at thisj kind of work. The whole state from Lewiston on the north to St. George on the south will be treated to the oratory of Dr. Banks. The League a Nation Wide Power. The Anti-Saloon League was originally origin-ally started twenty-four years ago by Dr. Howard H. Russell in Ohio as a local lo-cal organization. From the beginning It has adhered to nonpartizan or rather omni partizan principles, urging the election of the most available drys to office regardless of political affiliations. affilia-tions. In the beginning, Dr. Russell found great difficulty in getting any sort of a hearing. He was laughed at, sneered at and his whole program was regarded as visionary. But, confident of the rectitude of his cause, he per- " " ' 1' " 1 K, - ; . 1 j 4j j Clifford L. Johnson, Manager of the Utah National Prohibition Campaign. sistently kept on, often pawning his life insurance policy and even his watch to secure expense money to take him from place to place. Dr. Russell was a "preacher" and a pioneer. As the league grew in strength and influence, the need of a militant politician was felt to take the lead and Dr. Purley A. Baker of Ohio was chosen to succeed Russell as the acting executive of the organization, organ-ization, directing its political policies and organization work, while Russell became its chief platform advocate. Under the aggressive ministrations! of Dr. Baker, the league rapidly grew I in power until now it is second to no j organization of a nonpartizan nature in the whole country. In practically every state, it has a powerful state organization, reaching into every locality. lo-cality. It has about 100 fully equipped offices scattered all over the country in the principal cities and maintains a staff of or upwards of 800 salaried workers who devote all their time to the service. Literature by the Ton. In addition to numerous publications publica-tions throughout the country published pub-lished or controlled by the organization, organiza-tion, the National League maintains a large publishing house at its national headquarters at Westerville, Ohio, known as the American Issue Publishing Publish-ing Co. There about 200 employes are busy pouring an average of more than three tons of dry literature into the mails every day. In campaign times, this average often runs up to ten tons daily. The national organization also maintains at Washington a staff of agents and attorneys, its Washington Washing-ton quarters occupying nearly a whole floor of the Bliss building facing the capitol. It is from there that measures meas-ures in congress are promoted and it from there that assistance is rendered render-ed friendly congressmen to get reelected re-elected and it is from there that congressional con-gressional friends of the liquor traffic traf-fic get hard bumps when they come before the people for re-election. Many a congressman who has tried to defeat dry measures in Washington Washing-ton has found himself politically annihilated an-nihilated when he went before his people for a re-election and found himself confronted by a crew of dry orators and tons of dry literature opposing op-posing his re-election. The congressional congres-sional districts of the nation are strewn with the political wreckage of wet congressmen who have been put out of commission through the activities activi-ties of these compactly organized drys. Contrary to the general impression, the league workers are not highly salaried sal-aried men. Practically all of them are working for less money than they could command in other walks of life. As a rule, none are paid at all except those who abandon their regular means of livelihood and dvote their i entire time to the work of the orgnn- izal ion. j Not one speech in a hundred given ! under the auspices of the league le paid for. In thousands of cases, the j speaker not only gets no pay for his work but pays his own expenses b1-! b1-! sides. "The Bank of England could not pay all these speakers if they all i got Chautauqua salaries" says Attor-; Attor-; ney C. L. Johnson who is now plan-; plan-; ning the campaign in Utah, making j dates and local arrangements for the national dry rallies. "The best way and the only way to j put the Anti-Saloon League out of commission is to put the Baloon itself out of commission. The league will .tar as long as the rura shops are In ; existence, which won't be long," says ' George A. Startup of Provo. vice- president of the Utah Federation of ! Betterment Leagues which Is working j in conjunction with th Anti-Saloon league of Amwica and Is recogntMd I as its BDokasman In this stata. |