methods of the Anti-Saloon League of America are so well known that it is unnecessary to dwell long upon them. league, when fully organized in any state, maintains three departments of activity-agitation, legislation, and law enforcement. It is a federation of existing temperance organizations, including the churches, and of people belonging to no temperance organization. When political action is undertaken, it is through any party or body that may be available. league is in operation in forty-three states and territories. It maintains at present about 250. field workers, devoting all their time to its activities, and about I50 stenographers and clerks. league has had in its service since its organization approximately I,ooo paid employees, either all or part of the time. This does not count the many thousands of ministers, speakers, organizers, temperance women, canvassers and others who have also helped and are helping under league direction. Of regular agitation meetings, chiefly on Sunday in the churches, with official speakers present, there are now held about 15,000 yearly. But this takes no account of the almost numberless meetings in prohibition, local-option, political, good-citizenship, and law-enforcement campaigns in which the league has a hand, either directly or indirectly, and omits meetings held by its regular or volunteer workers. league makes large use of periodical and campaign literature. Of this its various state headquarters have issued to date over 350,000,000 pages. The American Issue, the national organ, sends approximately 300,000 copies per month to paying subscribers, while a number of the states also maintain state organs, with a paying subscription list ranging as high as 20,000 copies per week, with vastly increased circulation in campaign times. In addition, enormous quantities of temperance literature are published by individual members or friends of the league. It is the belief of the league that temperance laws and public sentiment should sustain (482)