HiLUBOHC AHCU1, OCT it 1510
MEN OF, OREGON?
Do You Know
That during only a few weeks' circulation, 40,000 of your fellow-citizens signed
a written protest against statewide prohibition?
That had it been necessary to go further, fully four-fifths of the voters would
have signed it?
That this list of signers includes farmers, ministers, physicians, ranchers, lawyers,
workingmen, and almost without exception, the leading bankers and business men
of the State?
That it includes the names of many men who vote "dry "in their own community?
Why? Because
UJtinn nlvsnliitolv kills local ontion. and the people of Oregon
want local option. They. want a voiceliTthe settlement of this question in their
own community. It is their right.
Statewide prohibition robs you of that right.
It robs you of the right to have cider, beer, or liquor, in your own home! It
makes it a crime to give your friend or neighbor a glass of cider.
It permits any officer, special or regular, to break open your door at midnight
and search your wife's or mother's room for liquor! Do you want that kind of law
in Oregon?
Maine, on September 12, 1910, repudiated its prohibition law of 57 years' stand
ing by electing, for the first time in 30 years, a Democratic governor upon his pledge
to re-submit the constitutional prohibition iaw. It was not political insurgency that
turned the tide, but insurgency against statewide, obnoxious, ineffective prohibi
tion, so-called. Will Oregon profit by Maine's error of threescore years?
Nothing is settled until it is settled right.
Let us settle it now and settle it right.
The I Ionic Rule bill (No. 328 on the ballot) permits cities to vote on prohibition
within their own limits. It permits any precinct or number of precincts within a
oity, or any precinct or number of precincts or the whole county outside the cities,
to vote for or against prohibition, as they choose. Under this bill every city in
every county, and every county in the State, may vote "dry" if they so desire.
But
If you want to preserve your rights; .
If you want local option which means Home Rule;
If you Want your glass of beer, cider or liquor at home even tho' you are
opposed to the saloon
You MUST vote these numbers (cut them out and put them in your pocket
as a reminder):
328 X Yes. For Home Rule.
343 X No. Against Prohibition Amendment.
345 X No. Against Prohibition Search Law
Think it over !
Prohibition attempt to overrido u
individual and inherent rifht. That's
why failure invariably follow eassl
ment of the law. It takes the liqaor
traffic from licented dealer who era
luhject to refutation and fives it to
lawbreakers who ar willing to Mil to
minori, drunkards anybody ior gain.
p fj Ak your Prohibitionist friend
to anwjr 01'l",i"n! "' a,.lh.t
claim, 3H million people are now living
in "dry" territory, why is it that Hie
U 8 Internal Revenue Department
shows that more whiskey ami more
beer is cousumed than ever beloref
Respectfully,
GREATER OREGON HOME RULE ASSOCIATION.
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