Word: anti-salooner
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...Empringham who announced the new policy of the society at a meeting in Manhattan. He was formerly National Vice President of the Anti-Saloon League and New York State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. He told that in 1917 his society had sent out a questionnaire to 15,000 members and received responses showing that by far the greater number favored prohibition. He told that about a year ago he set out to write a pamphlet to show that prohibition was a success, but after going about making investigations changed his mind. He sent out a questionnaire...
These and other remarks of Mr. Edge engendered a stormy debate. Mr. Willis of Ohio, anti-saloon partisan, who is tenderly nursing his presidential aspirations, rose in reply...
...closing sessions of the meeting of the Anti-Saloon League in Chicago were brilliant with oratory. Examples...
Nowadays the country is facing the "enforcement crisis" and last week the Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its biennial convention by that name. It was a great meeting. To it came Bishop Thomas Nicholson, President of the League; Francis Scott McBride, General Superintendent; Wayne B. Wheeler, its Washington representative; William H. Anderson, former superintendent of the New York State branch; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews (in charge of Prohibition); Andrew Volstead, onetime Congressman; Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissary; Senator Sheppard of Texas, who introduced the 18th Amendment in the Senate...
...denounced the Anti-Saloon League and the Volstead Act. At the age of twelve he had signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...