ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE

an organization established in 1895 by the combination of smaller leagues of five States. It is a National federation of organizations, and its original purpose was the extermination of the traffic in alcoholic liquors. The League had the aggre ive support of most of the large church organizations of the country, and the work was carried on so effectively and intelligently that prohibition of liquor was widely extended in the States. The League began with the fight for local option and these were gradually won, until it was enabled to launch a Statewide campaign. In 1907, Oklahoma voted for prohibition; in 1908, Georgia; in 1909, North Carolina, Mi ouri and Tenne ee. These were followed by 15 states, chiefly in the Southwest, which provided for entire prohibition of the traffic up to the time of the pa age of the Constitutional Amendment in 1918. The three great divisions of the work of the League were agitation, or field work, legislation, and law enforcement. The avowed purpose of the League was the enactment of the Constitutional Amendment for the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and to this, from 1916, it devoted its chief energies. So great was the influence and so intelligent its method of operation, that the amendment was carried in Congre by a large majority and was ratified by all the States except three. See Liquor TRAFFIC. After the amendment had gone into effect, the League devoted its special efforts to combat modification of the State laws against the liquor traffic, and to the strict enforcement of these laws.