Volume 15 , Issue 40

(1913) Want Prohibition By Amendment

It was in the Monday evening newspaper, The Daily Ardmoreite, dated 10 November 1913, front page headlines that we learn that an Anti-saloon league in convention has plans for national prohibition as we read the article about "Want Prohibition By Amendment."

Columbus, OH, November 10 (1913) -- What was declared to be the most comprehensive temperance convention ever held in the history of the world began today with the opening of the biennial session of the Anti-Saloon League of America. Back of the colossal convention was a plan to submit to the people of the Untied States another amendment to the federal constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquor in any form in America.

The league says that national prohibition can be secured through the adoption of a constitutional amendment by congress and ratification of the same by the necessary three fourths, thirty-six states. A state once having ratified the amendment cannot rescind its action, but a state failing in its effort to ratify, may do so at any future time. Daniel A Poling, of Columbus, candidate of the prohibition party for governor in 1912, had taken up the anti-saloon program, and would be one of the speakers.

Others, speakers and entertainers, who had accepted places on the program, were:

Mrs. mary Harris Armor, Eastman, Ga., of the WCTU; Fred S. Caldwell, Oklahoma City, originator of the Webb law idea; Robert B. Glenn, Winston Salem, NC, former governor of North Carolina; United States Senator Asle J. Grenna, Lakota, ND; Frank Hanly, Indianapolis, former governor of Kansas; William Hodge Mann, governor of Virginia; Congressman Richmond P. Hobson, Dr. C. F. Swift, leader of the drys in the Pennsylvania legislature; United States Senator Senator William S. Kenyon, Fort Dodge, IA; Congressman M. Clyde Kelley, Braddock, PA; Charles M. Hay, leader of the drys in the Missouri legislature; United States Senator Porter J. McCumber, Wahpeton, ND.

It was not the purpose of the anti-Saloon League to abandon its policy of local prohibition, and it would continue, its leaders say, to fight for try territory wherever opportunity affords.

Dr. P. A. Baker, national superintendent of the league, predicted a saloon less nation by 1920.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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