"The Next and Final Step"
Statement
By: P.A. Baker
Date: 1914
Source: Baker, P.A. "The Next and Final Step." In The Anti-Saloon League Year Book. Westerville, Ohio: The American Issue Press, 1914, 16–17.
About the Author: P.(Purley) A. Baker (1858–1924) served as general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America from 1903 until his death in 1924. During his tenure, the Anti-Saloon League successfully lobbied Congress in 1917 to pass the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandating national Prohibition. The measure was eventually ratified by the requisite number of states in 1919.
Introduction
The Anti-Saloon League, one of the most effective (indeed single-minded) pressure groups in American political history, can take a great deal of the credit for the surprising passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment...
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