"Prohibition Is Here to Stay"

Jason S. Lantzer

Description

Prohibition Is Here to Stay focuses on the Reverend Edward S. Shumaker, a Methodist minister who for nearly twenty-five years led Indiana's influential chapter of the Anti Saloon League. Shumaker was one of the most powerful men in Indiana in the fight against demon rum, and his influence extended well beyond the boundaries of the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jason Lantzer uses Shumaker's life and work to shed new light on the rise and fall of Prohibition and to better understand and appreciate the interplay of religion and politics in American culture.

Drawing on Shumaker's personal papers as well as archival work, Lantzer argues that understanding the role of religious faith and in particular evangelical Protestantism is essential to understanding Prohibition. Shumaker's religious faith inspired his crusade against alcohol and his efforts to make the Indiana Anti Saloon League one of the strongest political pressure groups in the country. Lantzer argues that Edward Shumaker's life and the cause to which he devoted most of it were not aberrations but exemplars of central currents in American culture of the time. Lantzer also connects Shumaker and the prohibition movement in Indiana to larger issues of America's transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban culture, with the attendant fears of change, loss of values, the impact of industrialization, and foreign immigration.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• 20th Century
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Mensajería instantánea
• Anti-Saloon League
• Catholic Church
• Christianity
• United States
• KS
• IL
• ND
• IN
• NE
• OH
• MN
• SD
• MO
• Prohibition
• MI
• Indiana

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268085667
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

“Prohibition Is Here to Stay”

Prohibition “ The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker Is Here to Stay ” and the Dry Crusade in America

JA S O N S . L A N T Z E R

University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright © 2009 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved

Publishedin the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Lantzer, Jason S.  “Prohibition is here to stay” : the Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the dry crusade in America / Jason S. Lantzer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN13: 9780268033835 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN10: 0268033838 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Shumaker, Edward Seitz, 1867–1929. 2. Prohibitionists— Indiana—Biography. 3. Methodist Church—Indiana—Clergy— Biography. 4. Prohibition—Indiana—History. 5. Prohibition— United States—History. 6. Indiana AntiSaloon League—History. 7. Temperance and religion—Indiana—History. 8. Religion and politics—Indiana—History. 9. Religion and politics—United States— History. 10. Indiana—Biography. I. Title. HV5090.I6L366 2009 363.4'1092—dc22 [B] 2009002552

∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1| Origins of a Dry Leader

2| South Bend and Beyond

3| A Political Education

4| Shumaker Victorious

5| The Faulty Alliances of Rhetoric

6| Dangerous Friends

7| Trials and Tribulations

8| The Death of a Man and His Dream

9| Everything Old Is New Again

Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

Writing a book is a massive undertaking that leaves the author with a long list of people to thank. Let me start with my parents, Jack and Juanita Lantzer, who instilled in me as a chi ld a love of learning and the importance of faith. Without either of these two things this book would not have been completed. I owe thanks to all my family and friends, including the ones whom this project consumed, for their generosity of spirit and their guidance as well as for many welcome distractions along the way. When it comes to the latter, perhaps the most important have been the annual guys’ week ends shared with Dave Botset and Jeremy Martin, and the fun times I have had with my godson, Jack Sciaudone. And without the love and support of my inlaws, the Honorable James and Kathy Heuer, and Bill and Susan Hebert, it is a safe bet that this book would never have advanced beyond the dissertation phase. Indeed, the book started life as the culmination of a doctoral de gree at Indiana University. I am indebted to my alma mater in many ways, but none more so than in allowing me to work with James Madison, Claude Clegg, Michael Grossberg, and Stephen Stein on this project. And while they may not recognize it, Irvi ng Katz, Nick Cullather, Larry Friedman, and David Thelen also in fluenced this

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effort. The History Department’s grants and awards helped to make the research and writing possible as well as to give me a cohort of friends and critics in Chad Parker, Matt Stanard, a nd Fred Witzig.  That kind of institutional support, in terms of finances as well as colleagues, has followed me wherever I have gone since this proj ect began nearly a decade ago. My thanks for the former go to the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame, the Southern Bap tist Library and Archives, the Congregational Library and A rchives, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. For the latter, I thank the history departments of IUPUI (especially Bob Bar rows), Butler University, and Franklin College together wit h those students of mine who suffered through lectures on Prohibition . I would be remiss if I did not also thank the staffs of the various churches, archives, and libraries (listed in the bibliography in full) for their help.  At the University of Notre Dame Press, Barbara Hanrahan took an early interest in the project and guided it (and me) through the process of submission, outside reading, and acceptance with a good deal of grace and patience. I am also indebted to other members of the Press who took the finished manuscript and transformed it into the book you now hold in your hands.  This project would not have gone forward, however, without the support of the Shumaker family. Arthur and Julia Shumaker, Edward’s son and daughterinlaw, from the moment I met them in the spring of 2000, have answered letters, submitted to interviews, showed me Greencastle, and opened Edward Shumaker’s papers to me prior to their being deposited at DePauw University in Green castle, Indiana. They did so without a single restriction on my re search or any demands on the writing of what eventually unfolded. It has been an honor and a privilege to tell Edward Shumaker’s story, and I regret deeply that Art did not live to see its publication.  As important as the Shumakers were to telling the story of Prohi bition, there is one person who deserves even more credit and praise than they, my wife Erin. She not only suffered through the research, writing, and rewriting but also served as proofreader, research as sistant, and legal analyst. Moreover, during the course of my pre

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occupation with Shumaker, she gave birth to our two children, Kate and Nick, who will never know their father to be anything but a professional historian and who bring both their mother and father nothing but joy. It is to Erin that this book, with all the love that a husband can muster, is dedicated.