The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-07
Palladium SpeciaD

Indianapolis. Ind, March hide
pendent of any politica party E. S.
Shumaker. superintendent of the Indi-
ana anti-saloon league is preparing in
formation to show that the state is in
need OF state wide prohibition and
that present conditions will make the
people ready for state wide by 1913.
Mr.. Shumaker says that he has no fault
to find with the county option law He
believes it has worked great good but
he also declares frankly that in his
opinion the county option law does not
fill the bill. The only thing he says
which will fill the bill is statewide
prohibition provision
With all this in mind Mr.. Shumaker
is now preparing lengthy statement
to show what great harm the wet coun-
ties of the state are doing and how
they are responsible for the drinking in
the dry territory of the state and for
the many blind tigers in such terrific
~. In this connection he is pre-
pairing a map in which all of the wet
counties of the state. either entirely
wet, or partially wet, are shown in red.
There are twenty-five such counties. as
follows: Lake, Porter. Laporte, ST. Jo-
seph. Tippecanoe. Cass, Allen. Black
ford, Marion, Vigo. Franklin. Ripley.
Dearborn. Knox, Posey, Vanderburg,
Spencer, Dubois. Perry, Floyd and
Clark. Nanderburg is the only one
of these counties which is entirely wet
The others have been made partially
dry by remonstrance.
70 Dry Counties.
There are therefore. 40 dry counties
in the state and Mr.. Shumaker points
out that Is of the dry counties may be
reached directly by interurban or
steam lines: and 81 of these dry coun-
ties he says may be reached from In
dianapolis by interurban lines. Six
of the dry counties he points out may
be reached by interurban from Logans-
port a wet city: three from Lafayette,
a wet city: three from Hartford City:
twelve from Fort Wayne: two from
Richmond: five from Terre Haute: two
from Evansville: four from Jefferson
Vile: seven from South Bend: and one
from Vincennes.
On his map Mr.. Shumaker is show
ing in red lines how the interurban
lines and steam lines radiate over the
state connecting the wet centers with
the dry territory. He has no fault to
find with the transportation lines. But
he says. nevertheless, that the liquor
which is carried from the wet centers
into the dry territory is responsible for
- in tho dry
ritOry.
Mr.. Shumaker also makes the state
ment that the theory that most of the
liquor which is found in blind tigers
is whiskey. is not correct. He says
that in a large number or blind tigers
which have been raided the chief arti-
Gle handled has been found to be beer.
All of the information which Mr..
Shumaker can gather in regard to con
ditions in the state showing the need
for state wide prohibition he expects
to present before the next legislature
convenes in preparation for the effort
to get the Legislature to ADOPT resolu
ton calling for an amendment to the
constitution providing for statewide
prohibition.
Are Well Fortified.
1t is expected that the friends of
the public accounting law of Indiana
and of the state board of accounts will
be we'll fortified for any attack which
NAV be made on the law in the next
session of the legislature. When the
bill was up in the last session of the
legislature there was a kick on the
great expense which it would entail
and since that time there have been
complaints because the state board in
adopting forms of records and reports
has clashed with the officers in some
counties.
1t was pointed out for example that
the expense of examiners would run
up to 81 900 day, there being 100 ex'
aminers and each receiving $40 day
| And then in addition to this there is
the salary of the chief accountant at
| 81 900 a year, two deputies at $4,000 a
year and other office force.
But in spite of this expense. the
friends of the law point out now that
! it is but trifle compared with the
saving effected by the law. The work
OF the board has not fairly begun yet
and not much has been done except in
the examination of township trustees
and vet there have been immense
shortages discovered already. In
some instances a single shortage has
run up to $4,000 or $4,000. and then
there are any number of smaller ones
The argument of the friends of the
bill is that not only will the savings
amount to the expense, but that after
while when conditions have been i'm
proved. shortages will be avoided and
there will still be a saving and at the
same time much trouble and disgrace
will be avoided by public officers. II
is not understood that there will be
any effort against the law in the nex'
session of the legislature. but at the
! same time the friends OF the law de
c1are that already II has made ooof