07 Dec




















Late developments have proved with startling clear- ness that local option is a false flag under which the anti-saloon people are sailing. On the floor of the House of Representatives during the past month, one of the advocates of the pretended local option bill ad- mitted that it was an anti-saloon measure and not a local option measure at all. Other instances are elo- quent to show that the anti-alcoholists are opposed to local option whenever there is a possibility that the 80 Local Option a Pretext. people will exercise their option in a sense contrary to the wishes of the anti-alcoholists. The so-called United Societies for Local Self-Gov- ernment, of Chicago, sent to the state capital a meas- ure to provide home rule for Chicago in the matter of controlling the liquor traffic. Knowing what the great mass of the voters of Chicago think about this subject, the anti-saloon people at once rallied in oppo- sition of this home rule measure. This bill, which is a typical local self-government or local option meas- ure, is opposed by them. The so-called Chicago Law and Order League addressed letters to the governor of the state, the lieutenant-governor, the secretary of state and to every member of the legislature, opposing the bill of the United Societies. In this letter it is set forth that the proposition to give the city of Chicago

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