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...Lobbyists." When Rev. Francis Scott McBride, D.D., general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, appeared upon the stand, he said: "There is no doubt we are lobbyists." He explained that the Anti-Saloon League, exclusive of State branches, spent $273,049.14 last year, that a deficit of $3,132.32, the first in many a year, resulted. The League was given $685 in bad checks in 1929. He balked at disclosing the contributors to the League lest they be "annoyed" by publicity. Lobbyist Mc-Bride's exposition of the League's activities...
...Born of God." Wisconsin Wet Senator Blaine found a passage in a recent speech in which Dr. McBride had said: "The Anti-Saloon League was born...
...McBride (rising angrily): I said the Anti-Saloon League was born of God, is led by Him, and will fight on as long as He leads...
Professional Prohibitors who last week put their views before the House committee were: Dr. Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, Edwin Courtland Dinwiddie of the National Temperance Bureau, Elbert Deets Pickett of the Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Prohibition, Temperance & Public Morals, Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation, and Eugene L. Crawford of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. These witnesses were spared the ordeal of direct testimony and cross-examination by Wet committee members, when Chairman Graham, to save time, adjourned the hearing and permitted the witnesses...
While Francis Scott McBride, chief Anti-Saloon League lobbyist, was declaring that Mr. Drury's testimony was "a knock-out blow to the Wets' pet scheme," Wets talked of inviting Premier Ferguson to Washington to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to refute the statements of his Canadian opponent. Premier Ferguson promptly scotched this proposal as "undesirable," but offered to send all data necessary to prove the success of Ontario's liquor system...