Anti-Saloon League, founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, is an organization of the temperance movement that lobbied for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.
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13 Facts About Anti-Saloon League
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Publicity for the Anti-Saloon League was handled by Edward Young Clarke and Mary Elizabeth Tyler of the Southern Publicity Association.
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In 1909, the Anti-Saloon League moved its national headquarters from Washington to Westerville, Ohio, which had a reputation for supporting temperance.
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The Anti-Saloon League used pressure politics in legislative politics, which it is credited with developing.
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Howard Ball has written that the Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Saloon league were both immensely powerful pressure groups in Birmingham, Alabama during the Post-World War I period.
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When it came to fighting “wet” candidates, especially candidates such as Al Smith in the presidential election of 1928, the Anti-Saloon League was less effective because its audience was already Republican.
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Anti-Saloon League used a multitiered approach in its attempts to secure a dry nation through national legislation and congressional hearings, the Scientific Temperance Federation, and its American Issue Publishing Company.
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The League used emotion based on patriotism, efficiency and anti-German sentiment in World War I The activists saw themselves as preachers fulfilling their religious duty of eliminating liquor in America.
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Anti-Saloon League lobbied at all levels of government for legislation to prohibit the manufacture or import of spirits, beer and wine.
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Anti-Saloon League members pressured local police to take licenses from establishments that violated closing hours or served women and minors, and they provided witnesses to testify about these violations.
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At the state level, the Anti-Saloon League had mixed results, usually doing best in rural and southern states.
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From 1900 and 1905 the Anti-Saloon League worked to obtain a local option referendum law and became an official church federation.
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The Anti-Saloon League failed to ally with local political bosses and attacked the Democratic Party.
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