The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-31
AGAINST INVASION OF
INALIENABLE RIGHTS
BULLETIN NO. II.

The "anti-saloon" brother and sister
sheod in this State and some of it's
ohedient servants in the Legislature
have not had enough with the crush
ing defeat of the first bill introduced at
their behest. by a two-thirds majority
vote in Assembly. One of the rural
Assemblymen, Mr.. Buck, of Cumber-
land, has lent himself to introduction
of a new local option bill, which by the
A~nti-Saloon Leagues hired person from
Chicago, in a letter to one of the New
ark evening papers, is proclaimed to be
the leagues product. 1t attempts at
tainment Of their present object-local
pr~ohibition-this time by petition only,
not by petition and election as did the
defeated Crosby bill. From its text also
are eliminated the ward n the county
? feature of the latter bill. 1t is made
applicable only to "any town, township,
village, borough, city or other munich
pality OF the State" and provides that
upon petition of a majority of the quail
fed electors of any of the aforesaid po-
litical subdivisions in the State against
the granting of liquor licenses In that
>s~ub-division the person or body having
authority to grant licenses shall can
vass such petition, and, if 1t is found to
contain a majority Of the qualified cleo
tors of the respective subdivision, shall
discontinue the granting of licenses
within its territory for at least two
years and so long thereafter until a
) petition by a majority Of the qualified
electors of the subdivision in favor of
granting licenses therein shall have
been filed, ~canvassed and found to con-
tain such majority of the electors.
: All of the arguments from the point
of view of state Constitution and of
political economy against enactment Of
!. tn late Crosby bill presented in these
bulletins Of course apply with equal
force to the new bill Gathered by AS
semblyman Buck. Their r%eiteration
seems superfiuous, but the gentlemen
of the Legislature, once more called
ubon to deal with the subject, are re-
-spectfully reminded of them; and also
of the fact that on the part of the adj
bcates Of local option legislation not
len an attempt has been made to re-
tie them or any one thereof.
But there is an additional objection
, enactment of the new scheme of the
i~ioon-baiters. embodied in Mr.. Bucks
which should have great weight
1th every upright man in the Legisla-
Ire. The enactment Of that bill would
ean Invitation of a carnival of fraud,
Eruption, intimidation and bull
bzing in every local community of the
date, for the purpose of securing the
equisite number Of signatures to a pc
Etion aiming at attainment Of the OBJ
bet Of the band of schemers and agi-
] lators sailing under the false flag Of
\ Temperance No clear-sighted OBJ
server of the manner and methods OF
agitation employed by those people in
the past will entertain a moments
doubt that all. of the aforesaid means
would be resorted to in the efforts to
obtain the number of signatures neces-
sary to impose local prohibition in the
subdivisions of the State If the Buck
bill should become a law.
That much is admitted even by that
Newark newspaper which generally
esnai1ses the cause of the self-appointed,
w1-be rulers Of the peoples social
II states that the solicitation OF
case Of enactment of the bill,
home a nuisance and perhaps
good government"
Eman-Amerlcan Gem
Newark, n. J.