In May 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio a new American temperance organization was formed, the Ohio Anti-Saloon League. The same year a similar organization was founded in the nation's capital. The union of these two organizations formed the nucleus for the National Anti-Saloon League which was officially founded on December 18, 1895 in Washington, D.C. The name of this national organization was later changed to Anti-Saloon League of America and Howard Hyde Russell was named as the first national superintendent in 1903. (The Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933). The aims of the organization were to enforce the existing temperance laws, unite public anti-alcohol sentiment, as well as enact new anti-alcohol legislation. These goals may have differed somewhat from the other temperance organizations of the time but the league shared the fundamental goal of national prohibition. The core founders of the league felt that the moral standards of Americans were on the decline thus losing touch with religious......

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Title: The Anti-Saloon League
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