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COUNTY OPTION
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Nebraska Editors Are Expos
ing Deception and Fraud
Practised.
SIMPLY COUNTY PROHIBITION
t Would "ih: Out Local Option and
1'estrov llonn; Kulo-Voters Would
l'e Ienil K'iht to Kxerrist; Op
tion Could Vote Only
Aaiust License.
Thanks to Nebraska editors, the
people are beginning to get a correct
understanding of the true inwardness
of so-called county option. Among
other things they have discoverej
tlifete lacts:
1. That what is. termed county op
tion is misleading because it denkvs
to the voter the power of option or
choice.
2. That the use of the word option
is done to deceive the voter, who as a
rule is satisfied with the local option
clause of the Slocumb law. lie is
led to reason that if local option is a
good thing, logically county option
would be as good.
3. Voters are learning that while
local option under existing law in
sures the full measure of home rule,
the intent of so-called county option
is to destroy the right of home rule.
4. That so-called county option is
diametrically opposed and. antago
nistic to local option.
5. That . so-called county option is
nothing but county prohibition.
. That if the Anti-Saloon league
should call it by its right name, it
would be denounced at once by nine
tenths of the voters.
7. That the program of the league
is to get the legislature to pass a law
permitting the people of the whole
county to control the policy of every
town in said county by denying- the
right of townsmen to license the sale
of liquor.
8. The sc heme is to let voters in
one end of a county say what the tax
payers of a remote town must do, al
though the outsiders pay no tax in
such town, nor have they the slightest
knowledge of its domestic affairs.
9. The scheme- is to have voters
cast their ballots against issuing li
censes, but they would be denied the
ight to vote in favor of license. The
injustice of this proposition is fully
set out in the editorials quoted be
low. 10. That the Anti-Saloon league is
exposed in an attempt to perpetrate
a political trick upon confiding voters
of Nebraska.
Coercing Candidates.
Here are two important news items
relating to the impending campaign
now being planned by the prohibition
ists: (From the Lincoln News.)
At Friday's meeting of the cam
paign committee for the allied tem
perance forces of Nebraska it was ar
ranged to hold conferences by con
gressional districts within the next
fortnight, when reports will be re
ceived from county workers on the
declarations made by candidates lor
state offices, congress, the legislature
and county attorney. Usts will be
made up at each of the district meet
ings and forwarded to state head
quarters in Lincoln, whence the an
nouncement will proceed later as to
which men are deemed friendly to
county option and which ones are not
accredited as champions of that idea.
(From the Beatrice Express.)
County option is made an issue in
the pre-primary contest in every leg
islative district of the state. County
option is recognized as a step toward
state-wide prohibition and is support
ed everywhere by prohibitionists. It
is proposed to so change the law that
the voters over the county can have
a voice in saying whether a town or
city shall not license saloons. Legis
lative candidates for and a-gainst such
a measure will therefore be pitted
against one another in every district
of the state and the result of the pri
mary election will foreshadow the fate
of county option in the next session of
the Nebraska lawmakers. Prohibi
tionists and others favoring the pro
posed' law will demand that each can
didate define his position on that ques
tion, and those opposing county op
tion will be equally as determined to
know how a man aspiring to the leg
islature would vote on county option
in case he should be awarded the
honor. The candidates on each side
are thus to be clearly understood and
voters in the primary will take their
choice.
Deception Shown.
Nebraska newspapers are discussing
he merits of so-called county option.
Most of them understand what it is,
while others err in saying that the
jroposition contemplates that the peo
ple of a county may decide whether
the sale of liquor shall or shall not
be licensed. The truth is that voters
would be permitted to vote only
against license. The bill prevents the
voter from voting for license, and
tence he is deprived cf the power of
option in the matter. Therefore the
term county option Is a misnomer.
The pc-heme Ls devoid of the quality
of choice. It is one-sided and unfair.
It is based upon deception and in
justice. Several Nebraska editors have
TRUTH ABOUT
poi.-.tej. oul Ms p..U.cal trickery of
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Uio.ii t.e iioi i.e County Advance.)
To quote " Cioi Cr.io.ier,' county o;
t'. . titans e.f.y veto in the
cc.i. t., ..as a it to say whether sa
lot.ns s .i.l v.. .m in i-ald county or
not. Ti.e obje.-i ti i.s article is, tirst,
to prove that ", . isher" is mis
taken like neatlj ev.-.j other advo
cate of county op.n..i .nd is simp.y
endeavoring to misiea.I uy telling o.iiy
a portion or t!e truili; see-on.., we
tliall endeavor to show exactly w., t
county option is by quoting from tL.
bill introduced at the last legis;aa.e.
The bill says:
"If a majority of all the voters vot
ing at such election on such license
question shall have voted in favor ot
granting license, then the no-license
proposition shall be lost. PROVIDED.
That nothing herein shall be con
strued to prohibit any city council,
board of village trustees, or county
board, from withholding license Tlli
SAME AS IF THE QUESTION HAD
NOT RE EN SUBMITTED TO THE
COUNTY.
"If a majority of all the voters vot
ing at such election on such license
question shall have voted against
granting license THEN no city council,
village trustees, or county board', noi
any other authority within such coun
ty, shall have power to grant license."
Thus it will be seen that those who
are harping so much about the rights
of the farmer are not Willing to give
him an opportunity to really settle the
question of saloons for his county.
If a majority say that there shall
be saloons in the county, the county
optionist says that the farmer must
then get out of the game and let the
fellows in town decide the matter. On
the other hand, if a majority vote
should be against saloons in the coun
ty, then and in that case a town could
not have a saloon, even though every
voter iu the corporate limits should
be a high-license man.
Certainly, if the farmers have a
right to say that a saloon shall not
be established in a town, they also
have a right to say that it shall be
established. Tricky legislation of
this kind can hardly hope to win.
County Option Clearly Defined.
(From the Schuyler Free Lance.)
In the first place, we want to give
the News editor credit lor admitting
as to what county option really is and
that it is not a matter of righting
some legal wrong, but is simply a
scheme of prohibitionists to extend
and enlarge their powers. If there
could be state prohibition there would
be no demand lor county option, but
fearing that the state will not adopt
a prohibitive amendment, the prohi
bition faction accepts of county option
as a step in their advance. Some
counties might vote against saloon li
cense wherein a town might not. So
regardless of all argument used for
or against county option, down under
neath of all is simply the straight pro
hibition argument. County option is
simply a step toward prohibition and
nothing else.
But while nothing but the exten
sion of prohibition is back of this
county option agitation, that topic is
not discussed' in connection with it
and our editorial friend of the News
follows that line. He discusses cer
tain alleged rights following taxation,
just as all do instead of arguing for
prohibition and saying in the support
of county option that it would give
the prohibitionists that much more
leverage in keeping out the saloon.
Unjust and Un-American.
The advocates of county option
throughout the state are making the
argument that the voters of the whole
county should be permitted to have a
voice in controlling the domestic af
fairs of towns and villages in respect
to the control of the liquor traffic.
They are contending that to be longer
deprived of a controlling voice in the
domestic affairs of towns in which
they do not live is, from their point
of view, "taxation without representa
tion, which is tyranny." On the other
hand', townsmen whose property is
taxed to pay the cost of local govern
ment, make use of the same quotation
in support of their contention that
since property ow:ners outside of the
corporate limits of a town do not pay
taxes to maintain the local govern
ment, therefore they should not be
given legal right to have a voice in
such local government, for the reason
that to give them such voice would
grant them representation without
taxation, and would be destructive of
the principle of home rule, would be
illegal, unjust and un-American. This
brings up the point as to what were
the considerations which made neces
sary the incorporation of a town or
.village into a body politic, separated
or segregated from the control of the
county government. The study of
such considerations would carry the
voter far away from arguments in fa
vor of the principle of county option.
It is apparent on its face that towns
and villages were given the right to
incorporate and to manage their own
affairs for the sole reason that they
had' a right to the benefits of home
rule and to be free from the domina
tion of a larger number of voters
throughout the county, who were, not
to be taxed to maintain the local gov
ernment, and who, of course, coul
have no intimate knowledge of the
wants of such incorporated town.
We believe that the people of a
town alone should say what shall or
shall not be done in that town, for
they must bear the ills there may be.
They alone pay the municipal taxes to
provide police, police courts, jails, as
well as to provide for school and
municipal taxes necessary."
I.'o End to the Fallacy.
If i. cty may grai l a tianchisp to a
Ftirtt car company and in case ol
suit against that c. mpany the county
must meet court expenses, would that
justify the whole county in saying
whether the city t-hould grant a street
cr franchise or not?
District court cases arising from li
quor traflic are appealed to the si
I re me court and tne state at lare
; has to care for criminals in peniten
tiaries and meet costs- oi insane care,
Ucn on the same grounds the stte
i at large should say as to saloons and
not the county alone. In fact, there
is no end to that fallacy and the leJ-t-ral
court and juries would entitle The
na.ion at large to say.
The fact is that the county at
large meets much expense aside from
courts and dependencies that are due
to local affairs, but that does not
justify the whole county regulating
what is purely of local concern.
The simple fact and sensible view
is tfiat people of any incorporated
town have the sole right to say what
they will have or will not have in
their midst and not outsiders, many
of whom never even come to that
town. The nearer you get the govern
ment to the people, the better it is
and the fairer. And people who pay
no municipal taxes or do not live in a
municipality should have nothing to
say as to what shall or shall not be
in that place.
We believe in home rule-, and coun
ty option is nothing of the kind.
If the whole people of a county are
to have the say as to saloons or no
saloons in town, they can along the
same line of reasoning say as to
whether there shall be circuses or car
nivals therein, whether there shall be
sidewalks or street crossings or not
or any other thing, for all may eo.-:t
the county in some way as a result.
County option is supported by the
prohibitionists because it is along
their line and many country people
will vote for it because it enlarges
their authority without any extra ex
pense, but it is wrong in principle
just the same, for the good reason
that it destroys home rule and kills
local option.
A Sham.
(From the Scribner News.)
People can conscientiously believe
in regulation by local option or com
plete prohibition. County option is a
make-shift and a sham.
Hits Both Ways.
(From the Columbus Journal.)
The prohibitionists in their national
convention scored both the old parties
for refusing to incorporate a proh.bi
tion plank in their respective plat
forms. Had both the old partie.;
adopted prohibition planks, the prohi
bitionists would have insisted that it
was only a trick to deceive the so
called temperance element.
Don't Be Fooled.
(From the Pender Times.)
Don't be fooled by the proposition
of county option. It means prohibi
tion ultimately. If you favor prohi
bition a vote for county option means
a vote for prohibition. This scheme
has worked well in the south and the
opponents of saloons expect the same
results in the north. If the majority
of the people of this state want pro
hibition, they ought to have it, but we
believe there should be no deception
in the proposition. The issue should
be plain, open and above board.
Anti-Saloon League Hirelings.
Hon. H. L. Peeke, chairman of the
national prohibition convention, in an
address before that body arraigned
the Anti-Saloon league in scathing
language. The Ohio State Journal s
report of the convention's preceedings
gave the speech in full, and from its
report this extract is taken from Mr.
Peeke's remarks:
"The prohibition party asserts that
the way to prohibit is to prohibit.
And also asserts that it agrees with
the Quaker Ohio senator, who was the
author of the local option bill, in the
assertion that the Anti-Saloon league
workers do not desire such legisla
tion as will cause them to lose their
lucrative jobs, in most cases far more
profitable to the holders than any
thing they have ever been able to
earn in other walks of life.'
The Anti-Saloon league, an organi
zation existing mainly for the purpose
of providing soft snaps for decayed
lawyers and preachers who never
earned in any other walk of life one
half the amount they receive from
working the church people; my
state always supports the republican
candidate if it can possibly find an ex
cuse for doing so, and generally suc
ceeds in finding such an excuse, and
then after election proceeds to vomit
forth fire and sword, and tell what it
is going to do to the very men that it
has helped to elect.".
In this connection it is well to
copy a press dispatch reflecting some
light on the situation in Pennsyl
vania: "Pittsburg, Pa., July 29. J. B. Corey,
a wealthy coal man, 'one of the orig
inators of the prohibition party and
until this year one of the leading con
tributors, has withdrawn his support
and over his signature repudiates the
prohibition leaders. Mr. Corey to
day said:
" 'In the financial report of the
chairman of the prohibition party of
Pennsylvania there was a careful lack
of detailed items, upon which 529,000
was collected and expended. As a
substitute for the detailed items there
was an illuminous heralding of the
great personal sacrifices the prohibi
tion patriots are making. Yet I ques
tion if there is one of them who could
realize as many dollars and cents in
any legitimate business for the sam
mental and physical exercise.' "
Little Cor.so!t!cfi.
(From the Si'huy.tr t-ice I.cjioe.)
The prohibitionists aie getting lit
tle consolation out of ti.e presiden
tial candidates of the two old parties.
Taft is a 1. cense man and is against
prohibition and Bryaa has deelareJ
the same way. He voted and
talked against a prohibitive amend
ment in Nebraska in 1810.
Too Much Grandstanding.
(From the Silver Creek Sand.)
It is an incontrovertible fact that
if the people of the community who
are so industrious in fighting licensed
saloons would direct their energies to
ward fighting the sale of booze, no
matter by whom, whether by licensed
saloons, bootleggers or hole-in-the
wall dealers, they would have the
support of many who now oppose
them. There is altogether too much
grandstand play about the anti-saloon
fighters. To be consistent they should
tackle the rum element wherever it
exists. A licensed saloon is a bless
ing to a community by the side of un
licensed and irresponsible traffickers
in intoxicating liquors who trap the
unwary, as the devil lures his victims
A Guestion of Prohibition.
(From the Ioup'City Standard Gauge.)
Party lines will not be the question
! that will determine who will be elect
ed this fail in Sherman county, but
the qiie.-tion of prohibitiejn will be de
cided by the vote of the people in the
candidates chosen. We are strictly op
posed to statutory prohibition, yet if
the majority of our people say by
their vote that they want it we are
with them. We believe that our pres
ent liquor law is about as near the
right thing as could be framed, it
granting local prohibition' to every
community that desires it and so de
clares by its votes. At the next ses
ion of the legislature, the county
option question will come up for our
legislators to pass upon, therefore
your vote will tell whether Sherman
county is in favor of prohibition or
not by the men you elect. Consider
your ballot well before you cast it.
For a Square Deal.
(From Grand Island Independent.)
The York Republican, firmly advo
eating prohibition at all times, is yet
against the county option law as a
matter of principle. It believes the
local option provided by the Slocuni';
law to be better legislation and as ef
fective where people want prohibition
as the county option law would be
Other advocates of prohibition are
also opposed. If we mistake not, it
is the Albion News, also an advocate
of state-wide prohibition, which said:
"If the cause of temperance cannot be
promoted by fair, open and above
board methods, it does not deserve to
succeed. This is true of all things
We have confidence in the people o!
this commonwealth and believe that
the majority should rule. Every cause
has its over-zealous friends, who do
more harm than good, and such, we
believe, are those who advocate an
unfair bill such as the one above re
ferred to."
Making Pledges.
(From the Grand Island Independent.)
The law proposed would put the
question for such cities as Fremont,
Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, etc..
up to the people of the entire county
in which each is located, for the de
cision that it shall not permit li
censing and regulating the traffic; but
such counties could not determine
that such cities should issue license
to the applicant. The measure, in
obviously most illogical and incon
sistent manner, vests in the people
of an entire county a right to vote
upon a municipal question only if they
vote one certain way. In other words,
should the majority of the people of
a county so far disregard the inten
tion of the law as to vote for the li
censing and regulation of the sale of
liquor, then their interest in the ac
tion of the authorities of Grand Island
or Wood River or Cairo ceases. They
then have no interest in the munici
pality's affairs: they then are not con
cerned; they" then would have no
right to determine the question, but
would immediately, by virtue of the
same law, be disfranchised".
It Is scarcely a wonder then that
the voters will want to know of the
aspirants for nomination to legislative
offices, how they are going to vote
upon this measure if they are nom
inated at the primaries and "Subse
quently elected.
The community, a majority of the
voters of which desire to do so, must
certainly be continued In the uncondi
tional possession of the right to keep
any saloon out of its limits. But the
Slocumb law gives such communities
this right. In fact, the Slocumb law
provides for prohibition just as soon
as the people of each respective com
munity are ready for it, and want it.
It ought not to be changed, directlj
or indirectly. It ought to be altered
or supplemented neither in the inter
est of the distiller who would, if he
could, make it more lenient, nor in
the interest of the impatient, intoler
ant and unwise though probably well
meaning reformer who would, because
of some evils evils which should be
looked upon lightly by no one go
considerably farther than necessary to
correct those evils, and would force
tipon many people who know how to
control themselves restrictions which
are obnoxious to them merely because
a few people fall lamentably short in
being masters of themselves.
The prospective candidate for a leg
islative nomination should therefore
announce his position upon this ques
tion simultaneously with the an
nouncement of his candidacy; for. as
suredly, the voters upon both sides of
the question have a right to know
what they are voting for.
A Fair Law.
(From the Schuyler Free Ijnce.)
The Slocumb law is the fairest 11-
quor law that could be. so why not
let it alone? County option is but a
scheme of the prohibitionists to work
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a little nearer to ther desire s in that
line, not being able to get their lull
w.shes.
Not a Party Issue.
(From the Battle Creek Enterprise )
We agree with the Chronicle that
county option is not a party question
it is far more. It ls a vital Issue
which must be decided by the next
legislature, and one in which every
resident of Madison is directly or In
directly interested. It is a eiuestlon
which cannot be straddled and the
people of Madison county are asking
little when they insist upon a:i honest
avowal from Mr." Reels or any other
candidate.
A Few Facts.
(From the Schuyler Free Iinee.)
Under county option the people of
Schuyler would have the right to say
whether Leigh, Clarkson and Howells
should have saloons or not. And
what is that to us who pay no town
taxes in those villager and rarely, if
e er, go there?
There is no use in any disguising
of the fact that county option is sup
ported by the prohibition element, be
cause it is simply a step in that direc
tion. So all the argument one can
bring as to the justice or right con
nected with it amounts to noth.n.;.
County option will be favored by the
prohibition element and opposed by
the others.
The Real Contest.
(From the Hastings Daily Tribune.)
In Adams county the real fight is
going to be made upon the prohibition
issue' county option. Those who fa
vor prohibitiejn havei perfected a thor
ough organization and they have
placed candidates in the fie-ld tej make
the race in the primaries as favoring
county option, while those? who are
opposed tej prohibition and county op
tion have also placed first-class men
in the race-, so while the primaries
will be but Iuke:warm, the re'al con
test will promise to be interesting
enough for all concerned. The Tiib
tine js opposed tej county option and
will have more to say on this ini
poitant subject from time to. time1
alter the primaries.
County Option.
(From the Columbus Journal.)
Two years agej next January, when
the legislature assembled, Thomas
Darnell, attorney lor the State Anti
Salooi?. league, drew up a bill and had
it introduced, providing fejr county op
tion. The bill was defeated. Sirica
that time the league has been mak
ing a campaign to awaken interest
on the county option question, and a
number of republican papers advocate
making the question of county option
a partisan issue. Some of the county
optionists have even gone so far as
to serve notice that they will nejt vote
for any candidate on the republican
legislative ticket who will not pledge
himself to vote for the county option
measure.
The temperance question is not a
partisan measure. A voter can still be
a temperate man and consistently op
pose the county option bill. The
measure the county optionists demand
is a one-sided affair, and is really not
a local option measure in the true
meaning of the term. It gives the
voters an opportunity to vote on the
question of licensing saloons, and i!
a majority of the votes cast are
against license, that settles the ques
tiona license shall not be granted.
But if a majority of the ballots cast
are in favor of licensing saloons, it
would be fair, then, in that case, for
the temperance advocates to abide by
the result. The bill, however, pro
vides for overriding the will of the
voters, and the granting of licenses
Is optional with the village board and
city council. The Central City Rec
ord is of the opinion that the local
option measure is a good one, even
If It does give the "temperance peo
ple an advantage over the saloon
men." The stand taken by the Rec
ord' has called forth a protest from
Editor Ladd of the Albion News. The
News says:
"If the cause of temperance cannot
be promoted by fair, open-and-above-board
methods, it does not deserve to
succeed. This is true of all things.
We have confidence in the people who
compose this commonwealth, and be
lieve that the majority should ru'e.
If the majority does not at all times
agree with our ideas, we do not de
spair or feel justified in resorting to
unfair methods. The temperance
cause, like all moral ones, must ad
vance by degrees and a steady growth.
It has been going forward at a rapid
rate of late years, but it will be a
long time before it reaches the stage
we would like to see. Every cause
has its over-zealous friends who do
more harm than good, and such, we j
believe, are those who advocate an un
fair bill such as the one above re
ferred to. If the question of having
saloons is to be settled by a vote of j
the people, then in all fairness a vote i
for should count just as much as a
vote against. While the majority Is
not always rigr t. it is much safer to
trust than the minority as a general
proposition. We would inform the
editor of tne Record that he has not
been mistaken in considering us a
'strong temperance man.' We de
mand' of others only what we are
willing to concede.' If a bi'l giving
the saloons an unfair advantage were
to be introduced in the legislature, the
Record would denounce its unfairness,
but thinks it all right when- the ad
vantage is on. tte other side. Such a
policy will never gain friends and can
never succeed."
i Chafin for NaUon-Wldt Prohibition.
j Lincoln, Aug. 7. Lu.. ne V. Cnafln.
prohibition taiidl.ul.; lor president, in
ail ai,jr,.KH at the ,,ebra-.a Epwo.tn
' assembly said he In.d iitlie symna.hv
j WiUl tllt, 0,MIIy 0 ,;iwu or any otiuir
1
movement looi.ing to t..e j.ippi es.i.n
of the. liquor tral'ic t..t fell si.ort ot
nation-w.de prohibition.
Running Night and Day.
(From tne Heat rice Sun.)
A business man iroiu Wllber who
was In the city jesterday stated that
the brewery at that place ban been
running night and day the last fix
weeks In order to fill orders received
from Beatrice, Wymore and other
towns that went dry this spring.
Every day large quantities of beer in
cases and barrels are received here,
saying nothing of the amount cart,
ried here in suit cases.
The Best Method.
(From the Wymorean.)
Business men throughout the state
have organized ''what ls known as the
Merchants' and -Manufacturers' asse
ciation, and aniong other things that
they advocate I; regulation of the li
quor traffic by high license, believing
that this method is best for the busi
ness interests ejf ther state. The asso
ciation has taken spate in leading pa
pers throughout the state in which to
present its side of the? argument,
which is for high license and local
option. The association is in no way
dominated by the liquor interests, as
no ejne engaged in the traffic in any
way can become a member.
Gouging the Business Men.
(From the Nebraska City News.)
Beatrice is a "dry" town, conse
quently the revenue of that city ha
been reduced. In order to help pay
expenses it has been decided to in
crease the occupation tax of thej.-te
doing business there, and aniong the
number who come in for a "raise" are
the real e-state? dealers. The city
council is of the opinion that it in
worth $30 per year for the? privilege
of selling city lots there. That Is one
way to raise money, but we are in
clined to coincide with- the IJncoln
Journal when it says it is a short-sighte-d
policy to tax this class of per
pie. The business ef a real estate
dealer is to put the price of propel ty
as high as possible, and when that la
done the result is shown on the as
sessor's books. IJve; re-al estate men
add much to the assessed valuation
or a town and It is a mistake to dr.ve
them out of business. Nebraska City
News.
The More Honest Policy.
(From the Grand Island Independent.)
The legislative candidate who de
sires clear sailing and an easy con
science has but one thing to do this
year: State his views fully before
the primaries on the questions at Id
sue In this state. If he is for homo
rule, for Instance, with reference to
the liquor question, permitting those
communities which desire prohibition
to have it and those which prefer to
regulate the traffic to regulate, be
must come out squarely for no
change in the Slocumb law and In op
position to any county option bill. If
he is for county option or for prohibi
tion, all he needs to do is to say so.
It will then be up to the peejple and
the man who thinks he can side-step
the question and get in under false
colors is making a mistake. He may
be able to sneak in, but uneasy will
rest his head alter he gets in and has
voted contrary to the expectations of
those who voted fejr him. And' it's
the more hrjnest policy.
The Real Issue.
(From the Loup City Standard Gauge.)
This winter the question of county
option will come up in the legislature,
and if you are in favor of county op
tion, if you are in favor of passing a
law that gives one man a right to-rule
another though they live miles apart
and their conditions and interests are
directly opposite, if you are in favor
of taking away the rights of John
Doe because he lives in the sam
county you do and your vote control.
him though you may never have ssea
him, if you are in favor of passing
laws that will restrict your neighbor's
liberties and that will some day lead
to laws that will restrict your own,
if you desire to take from your fellow
man the liberty that God gave hlni
when he made him, If you think it
your duty to compel men by law t
believe as you believe, if you desire
to put men in office who are gov
erned by prejudice, then vote for th'j
candidate that will carry out such nar
row views. But It ls not likely that
Sherman county will cast ballots
enough for pious hypocrites to elf t
them.
For Better Enforcement.
Hundreds of business men havj
joined the Merchants' and Manufac
turers association under the '...Ilowing
conditions:
"As business men and taxpayers we
favor the movement to form an asso
ciation of merchants and manufac
turers for the purpose ejf aioitm
measures to bring about a b'-tt -r en
forcement of the Slocumb liquor li
cense law throughout the htate-a.
law making it optional with th- pe '
pie of a town or city to say whether
or not liquor shall be s-oid. We be
lieve the said law has been f gr-!-benefit
to the states an d that tl.ero ('
be no better mean-o for reuuiatin? t!.
Fa!e of Intoxicants. We stun 1 for i'
strict enforcement. T.'e join th.s a -sociation
with the unde-rj-taniing t-'-i,:
no distiller, brewer. lieiu"r dealer or
saloonkeeper is eligible to member
ship. Our object is to protect prop
erty interests from the ill effects .
unwise legislation."