. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. rue that one man conceived the plan of the organization,as it has finally crystallized into a working engine without material changefrom the pattern in the Mount. He saw the visions and dreamed thedreams. By faith he foresaw the coming constituency, the methods ofwork, and the sure victories of the movement. He was the first mis-sionary in the new crusade utterly to put himself, and all he had, intoit. He aroused the needed faith in others, raised the sinews of war, en-listed other leade
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. rue that one man conceived the plan of the organization,as it has finally crystallized into a working engine without material changefrom the pattern in the Mount. He saw the visions and dreamed thedreams. By faith he foresaw the coming constituency, the methods ofwork, and the sure victories of the movement. He was the first mis-sionary in the new crusade utterly to put himself, and all he had, intoit. He aroused the needed faith in others, raised the sinews of war, en-listed other leaders, mobilized the army, and conducted such victoriouscampaigns as have already won the respect of political powers, the fearof saloonkeepers and their allies, the rapidly growing support of allmoral agencies, and made the organization a permanent factor in thisnoblest conflict of the New Century. Howard H. Russell from early bo3~hood had distinct impressions ofthe evil of the drink habit and traffic. While yet a lad he saw near and dear relatives brought to a premature death through strong drink. It186. HOWARD II. RUSSELL,Founder, Anti-Saloon League of Ameria THE AXTI-SALOON LEAGUE—ORIGIN AND PERSONNEL. 187 became evident to him that for several generations this habit had been afamily weakness. When visiting in Staffordshire, England, Russell foundthat at least fourteen relatives not far removed, bright young men, severalof them trained in the English universities, had all died before reachingforty years of age, and that the drink habit was the assassin in every is no wonder that the subject was always in his mind as of pressing im-portance. When a young lawyer in Iowa his firm was employed by a local tem-perance organization to prosecute lawless saloonkeepers, and to Russellwas assigned the prosecution of the cases. He thus learned the perjuryand anarchy characterizing such traffickers. He was often called upon fortemperance addresses, and, in 1883, he devoted a mont
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