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The Genesis of Anti-Saloon League
By Allan Sutherland.
In view of the remarkable prog
ress which is being made by the An
ti-Saloon League in its efforts to se
cure a saloonless nation and a stain
less flag, it is well that something
should be known of its history.
In 1846, Abraham Lincoln, then
thirty-five years of age, prepared and
signed the following:
Whereas, the use of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage is productive
of pauperism, degradation and crime,
and believing it is our duty to dis
courage that which produces more
evil than good, we therefore pledge
ourselves to abstain from the use of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
Before that time, and since, until
1893, there had been more or less
irregular, individual and local efforts
made to overcome the rum traffic.
Such widely-known temperance
speakers as Father Mathew, John B.
Gough, Neal Dow, Francis Murphy
and Frances E. Willard, had exerted
a strong influence against it, but in
spite of all that was attempted, the
traffic increased, and liquor organi
zations were practically in control of
many politicians and law-makers of
our land. Apathy and indifference
dominated, as a class, even Christian
men and women; they were divided
among themselves; and although a
number of states had adopted tem
perance measures during the half
century before 1893, yet, for the most
part, these measures were either re
pealed or not properly enforced.
In 1874, the Oberlin, Ohio, Temper-
IN THE OLD DAYS
How close to our hearts are the
memories of our childhood. When
you were a barefooted little urchin
running in the grass, and munching
green apples, you were able to digest
anything and feel all right the next
day. Sunshine and good air gave you
an appetite. For many people it is
impossible to get out in the sunshine
and good air, and for those who are
doomed to sit for hours within four
walls, perhaps alongside of consump
tives or those suffering from catarrh
or other disease, it means sickness
and ill-health. Indigestion is only one
of the many symptoms of impure
blood as well as a disordered condi
tion of the stomach. Fifty years ago,
Dr. Pierce, of the Invalids’ Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y.,
found that certain barks and roots
manufactured by using glycerine
without the use of alcohol or opiates,
made into a concentrated extract,
which he called Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery, made a stimulat
ing tonic for the stomach, helped the
digestion and assimilation of the
food and eradicated poisons from the
blood. This is nature’s cure for indi
gestion, and by correcting the stom
ach, and thereby feeding the blood
on pure materials, the red b’ood cor
puscles are increased and the body
established in a healthy state. No
one suffers from catarrh who has
plenty of red blood corpuscles and a
good digestion. Catarrh in all its
forms is a a stagnation of the blood.
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system by taking the “Medical Dis
covery” and health is assured. Dr.
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has borne the stamo of public ap
proval for nearly half a century, and
will do more to improve the health
than any other remedy.—Adv.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, the
best laxative and liver regulator,
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ance Alliance was organized, the ob
ject of which was “by all lawful
measures to suppress the traffic in
the use of intoxicating liquors.”
From this beginning, the Ohio Anti-
Saloon League developed in 1893, and
had “the courage and the faith to
present a common platform for the
members of all temperance organi
zations, holding a common creed, so
far as the Christian attitude toward
the liquor traffic was concerned, up
on which .all denominations might
agree; advocating a common policy
on which the good men of all parties
might unite.”
This was a most important step in
the right direction, initiating, as it
did, a unity of action which is sure
of ultimate triumph.
The Ohio Anti-Saloon League was
formally organized in 1893; and short
ly after, the non-partisan organiza
tion known as “The Interdenomina
tional Christian Alliance,” of Ohio,
was merged with it. ,
Within a year, some three hundred
local organizations were formed, leg
islation influenced, a few local con
victions of lawbreakers secured, a
state paper, the “Anti-Saloon” start
ed, and other helpful activities in
augurated; the Anti-Saloon League
had at last found a permanent foot
ing as a state organization.
An organization, somewhat similar,
had been formed about the same time
in the District of Columbia, and had
accomplished much good. In 1895
the American Anti-Saloon League
was organized by the coalition of the
Anti-Saloon Leagues of the District
of Columbia and of Ohio, together
with forty-five state and local tem
perance organizations. This League
came into existence as a natural de
velopment of the reform spirit of the
times. It was felt that the well-or
ganized and powerful liquor organi
zations could be and should be over
thrown.
Immediately after the inauguration
of the Anti-Saloon League in 1895,
the work of organizing the move
ment in the states was begun and
vigorously prosecuted. During the
next five years there were twenty
states and territories in active sym
pathy with the movement. Affiliat
ed agencies contributed most help
fully.
State after state has already taken
action looking to the suppression of
the saloon. Just now, Montana and
South Carolina are struggling for the
honor of being the nineteenth pro
hibition state, and whichever wins,
the other will bring the count up to
twenty. Ohio, in which the great or
ganized temperance movement be
gan, is making a gallant fight for the
cause, and will doubtless be the
twenty-first. The time is almost cer
tainly near when not less than half
our states will be safely within the
prohibition ranks; and surely these
will shortly show such beneficient re
sults in the betterment of their peo
ple that all other states will hasten
to confer a like blessing upon those
within their borders, and our great
country will have the glory of boast
ing that it is indeed and in truth a
saloonless nation under a stainless
flag.
To this end, the American Anti-Sa-
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April 22, 1915