Word: anti-salooner
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...cases in what is left of the Pabst brewery (Milwaukee) have been thousands of bottles of medicinal malt tonic. Last week permits to make and sell the tonic were issued by the prohibition section of the Treasury Department to Pabst of Milwaukee and AnheuserBusch of St. Louis. Professional Anti-Saloon League furor ensued, and thus the names of two firms, once household words, flickered in U. S. minds which had almost buried them in subconscious limbo...
...English of Vienna, Ill., was a member of the Illinois legislature, an ardent prohibitionist, and known as a "labor" man. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Wilson in 1917. It is said that labor leaders have now joined in urging his impeachment, and that the Anti-Saloon League after opposing it for a time has given up its opposition...
Wayne B. Wheeler retorted for the Anti-Saloon League: "Do the people want beer and wine? The minority does. The majority does not, or it would secure them by legal and orderly methods. The majority has spoken its mind on this question, not once but repeatedly; not in straw votes but in official ballots, and that majority has rejected the wine and beer plan...
...League itself said formally: "The Anti-Saloon League of America reaffirms its position that straw ballots upon questions which have been decided in a legal and orderly manner by the whole electorate by the methods provided in the Constitution not only serve no good purpose but actually create a false impression...
...delegation from the Anti-Saloon League called on the President to urge on him the necessity of absolute drought, but he refused to enter the verbal battle, saying that he believed progress is being made in enforcement...