Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — PROPHESY WILSON’S RETURN WILL END DRY UROSPECT [ARTICLE]

PROPHESY WILSON’S RETURN WILL END DRY UROSPECT

Atlantic City, N. J., May B.—Resolutions adopted today at the closing sesion of the National Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association ask all fairminded citizens to “assist” in fighting national prohibition since the issue wAs promulgated in the absence of 2,500,000 voters, many of whom made the supreme sacrifice in bloody protest against such fanatical propaganda as prohibition emianates from.” Prophecies were made that President Wilson would be in so cheerful a mood when he returns from Paris that he would wipe all war time legislation of the statute books. Prohibition, it is predicted, will be included in the process. The need of replenishing the war chest for the life and death battle now in progress was emphasized. It is proposed by the officers of the association that the assessment be made large enough upon the 85,000 saloonkeepers to insure a fund to meet all emergencies. The money will be needed, they said, for legal battles in many states.