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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1910)
. - - at: ! K If Do You Know OF OMEGQM It f- - -; j . a k ; 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 mothers 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 insurgericy that -turned the tide, but insurgency against statewide, obnoxious, ineffective prohibi tion, so-called. Will Oregon i profit by Maine's s error of threescore years? Nothing is settled4 until it is settled right. Let us settle it now and settle it right The Home Rule bill (No. 328 on the ballot) permits cities to vote on prbhibittort within their own limits;- It- permits arty precinct or number of precincts withiti 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 irt every county, and every coiinty in the State,' may vote "dry" if they so desire"; But If you want to preserve your ri s: If you want local optionwhich means Home Rule; If you want your glass 4 of beer, cider or- liquor at home even1 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. Against1 Prohibition Amendment. 345 X No: Against Prohibition Search Law. Think it over!' Prohibition attempts' to override ' individual and inb.r.at rifhl. ' ThdtV why failure invariably' follows eaael mcnC of fhe law. It taket the Itqno Iraffio from Kceneed dealer who fro, ' subject lo' refalatioa and tv il I lawbreakers who ara willing to aall to ' minors , drunkards anybody fur faia'. P. S. Ask your Probibitioniat friend to answer tbia question: If, as they claim, 38 million people are now living io "dry" territory, why i it that tho If. S: Internal Revenue Departmcot (howl that more wbiakey and more beer 'is consumed than ever beforeP Respectfully, GREATER OREGON HOME RULE ASSOCIATION. PAID ADVERTISING , i 0 v II V 1 . i 'i 1 1 .