The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-10-12

by the Indiana Apti-SaIoon league of
hcers, no attempt is to be made to or
ganize the law enforcement forces in
the counties containing the large cit
les such as indianapolis, Fort Wayne,
South Bend. Evansville and Terre
Haute. but efforts viii be made to eff
feet strong organization in the smaller
counties of the state without delay
1t was thought for a while that the
fact that city elections are to be held
this fall might delay the work of or
ganizing the law enforcement people
throughout the entire state but the
league officers have concluded that the
work can safely go ahead in all of the
counties except the few in which the
large cities are situated.
The league does not wish to inject
its fight into the city campaigns in In
dianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend
and other large cities this fall. be-
cause these cities are now wet and if
the anti-saloon people should go into
the fight and lose. it would mean a
hard blow to their hope Of ever max
ing those counties dry. So they have
decided to wait in those counties until
after the city election to begin their
fight for law enforcement.
Here's Where They Hope to BE Power.
In the smaller counties, however, the
league proposes to go right ahead and
make organizations as large and as
close as possible, rae purpose being to
give encoura cement to the officials Of
the counties in the direction OF com
polling saloons and illegal liquor sell
ers to obey the laws
4 have no doubt there are many
public officials in the state who would
make an honest effort to enforce the
laws if they could feel that there was
behind them an Organization that
would give them the proper support
said one Anti-Saloon league man, IN
discussing the plan OF organza ton.
We propose to organize and bring
about conditions that viii make the Of
ficer feel that he has behind him the
support of an organization that can
and viii do things. Then If an officer
fails to do his duty in this direction
We will know why"
Work Even Harder Among Drys.
The work OF organization for law en-
forcement is to be carried on more Wig
orously in the dry counties than In the
wet counties, because the league be-
lieves the people in the dry counties
should be shown that when they voted
dry it meant dry. In other words, the
league wants the people to feel that
when they voted out the licensed sa-
loon they did not vote in the blind
tiger and other illegal liquor selling
places. The league realizes the fact
/ that Illegal liquor selling has sprung
/ up in many counties which voted dry
at local option elections. and that it is
/ the duty OF the local authorities to sup
press this business II is the belief Of
! the league that If IL can organize the
! law enrocement leagues in such eoun-
ties and have it cooperate with the
/ officials in showing up the law viola
tions 1t viii make the liquor business
so unpopular that it can never be re-
! established in the dry counties The
league believes that the liquor bust
ness viii hang itself in such territory
II given the proper amount of rope
and II proposes to supply the rope.
On the other hand, the brewers are
Of the opinion that II the people see