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JHE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD. OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1910-EVENING EDITION.
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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
Statewide prohibition absolutely kills local option, and the people of Oregon
want local option. They want a voice in the 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 law.- 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.
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Let us settle it now and settle it right.
The Home 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
city, 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.
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If you want to preserve your rights; '
If you want local option which means Home Rule; ; , . '.., .,'.., .t ... , , ". .
If you want your glass of beer cider or liquor at home even tho' ydti aire
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 !
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. Prohibition attempts to override- an
individual and Inherent rUht. Tbat'a
why failure invariably fpows eneet
ment of the law. It takes tba, liquor
tratfio from liceoied dealer) who are
subject to regulation and fives it to
lawbreakers who are willing to tell to
minors, drunkards anybody for fain.
P, S. Ask your Prohibitionist friend
to answer this question: If, as they
claim, 38 million people are now living
in "dry" territory, why is it that the
U. S. Internal Revenue Department
shows that more whiskey end more
beer is consumed than ever before'
Respectfully,
GREATER OREGON HOME RULE ASSOCIATION.
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