The news=record., October 22, 1910, Saturday Edition, Image 3

That during only a few weeks' circulation, 4l
a written protest against statewide prohibition?
That had it been necessary to go further, fully
have signed it?
; That this list of signers includes farmers, ministers,
wotkingmen, and almost without exception, the leading
of the State? .
That it includes the pames of many men who vote "dry.
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Why?
Because
qatIAo- uuiirn oKcr1nf1v kills Inral ontion. and the Oregon
want local option. They want a voice in the settlement of this .aon m tneir
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 vour own homel 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 vour 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 pronibi:
tionr so-called. Will Oregon profit by Maine's error of threescore years?
Nothing is settled until it is settled right.
Let us seli it how and setde it right.
; The Home RufcHCNo. 328 on the ballot) permits cities to vote on prohibition
within their own liSltp It permits any precinct or number of precincts within a
city, or any precinctaorfnumber of precincts or the whole county outside the cities,
;!tb Vote for or against -ohibition; aslthey choose. Under this bill every city m
every county, and eer county in the State; may vote "dry" if they so desire.
It you want lo(il (jnjion wnicn means norae ivuic,
' If you want yir iss of beer; cider or liquor at home even tho' you are
opposed to the salopn- ;
You MUST vote tfese numbers (cut them out and. put them in your pocket
as a reinmuci j.
328 X Yes. JFor (Home Rule.
! I '343 X No. gainst Prohibition Amendment. '
345 X No. gounst Prohibition search Law.
. S. A.k your Prohibitionist friend
to nnwer thi que.tion: If, they
' claim, 38 million people .re now living
in "dry" territory, why it it that th.
IJ. S. Internal Revenue Depertment
5 show, th.t mor. whiikey and aor.
beer it couumed than ever before?
Think it over!
Prohibition attempt 10 override an
individual and inherent right. i That'
why failure invariably follow, eaaetv
men! of th. law. It take tb. liqaor
traffic from lioeaMd dealer, who aro
eubjeot to regulation and give it t.
lawbreaker! who ar. willing to aell to
minor., drunkard anybody lor gain.
Respectfully,
GREATER. OREGON HOME RULE ASSOCIATION.
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