Word: anti-salooner
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...chairman of this committee is Mr. Hudson, a benign and splendid gentleman, but he has been an official of the Anti-Saloon League. His mind is already made...
...Senate, Mr. Edwards of wet New Jersey proposed a national referendum? on prohibition, saying: "Of course, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, believes my proposal to submit to a referendum of the people the question as to whether we are to have wines and beers, is an 'illegal, impracticable proposal...
...just and impartial treatment of the criminal, fraudulent and deceitful administration of present enforcement measures would have no appeal to one who has been a consistent violator of the law himself and has browbeaten and intimidated legislators to promote iniquitous prohibition legislation drafted and lobbied through Congress by the Anti-Saloon League...
...remarking of the Anti-Saloon League: "Let me be understood clearly. I find that their methods are not distinguished by meticulous regard to limits imposed by facts...
Besides the Anti-Saloon League, the Methodist Board of Temperance, the World League Against Alcoholism, the W.C.T.U. and others joined the attack on the stand of the Episcopal Temperance Society...