The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-28
DRY YLEAGUERS
SEEKB| GFUND
TO WAGE WAR
Money Is Foremost Want,
1900 Delegates Told
at Convention.
DRASTIC LAWS URGED
Shumaker and Mcbride in
ImpaSSioned Pleas for
Arid Nation.

What the Anti-Saloon League
wants was told in no uncertain
terms to the 1900 delegates attend
ing the closing sessions of the In
diana dry convention Friday after
noon and night at Roberts Park
M. f. Church.
Foremost among the wants is
money; money to carry on the work
OF the league in general way, such
as paying expenses of secretaries,
attorneys and Office forces, and pub
fishing the American Issue. Then
more money for separate fund to
be used in political campaigns.
These purposes were outlined in
an impassioned plea by Secretary
e. S. Shumaker. 1t was followed
by the passing of the envelopes,
long used by the league in financial
campaigns.
Donations for Two Years
The only change was that in the
printing on the face of each envelope
was the sentence For Two Years"
which meant that cash payments
and pledges made would cover this
period.
Shunlaker called attention to this
and pointed out that it might not
be necessary to hold another dry
convention next year, should funds
be sufficient.
Other wants Of the League were
outlined by F. Scott Mcbride,
Washington, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of America. Nc
Bride wants all critics of the
League crushed and all politicians
who refuse to do the Leagues bid
ding driven from the public office.
"T'he issue now is bigger than it
ever was before" he told the con-
vention. "If the Democratic party
nominates wet for the presidency,
1T will be nothing but a sad memory
for the next quarter century"
Wants Prison Terms
He told of the legislation wanted
by the League. This will make five
year prison sentences mandatory
in conviction in liquor sales, ac-
companied by fines of $4,000. If
the offender is not a naturalized
American, he will be deported
forthwith.
This legal phase Of what the drys
demand was gone into even more
extensively by Secretary Clarence
True Wilson of the Methodist Board
Of Prohibition, Temperance and
Public Morals. He wants purchase
of illicit liquor to be nisdemeanor
punishable by Jail sentence.
Automatic padlocks for all prop
erty where liquor has been sold; a
definitely dry presidential candi-
date; American sailors who don't
drink in foreign ports; a Supreme
Court that rules in favor of the dry
side, and finally dry world are
others of his aims.
He also wants the Sunday blue
laws revived and enforced and the
Bible taught in American public
schools. All these DR.. Wilson wants
in the name of true Americanism"
and the flag.
GiIliOm Is Denounced
The flag played an important
part at all the Friday sessions, be-
ing used to emphasize all points in
the dry program.
Other Friday afternoon and eve
ming speakers were Editor Fred
Rohrer of Berne, Ind, who de-
nounced Attorney General Arthur
L. Gilliom and his father, who are
natives Of Berne; Secretary Ernest
H. Cherrington of the league educa-
tion department and the World
League Against Alcoholism, and the
Rev. E. Y. Mullins, president of the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary and the World Federation of
the Baptist Churches.