The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-10-28
SOUND REASONS FOR
COUNTY OPTION
FIRST.

Although the state went wet thir-
teen years ago. our present law, which
the Home Rule League says is ''Idealn
requires a second Home Rule vote Just
the same as now provided by the pro-
posed County Option Bill, to determine
at the Spring election WHERE and
WHERE, NOT saloons shall be licensed
by MAJORITY vote. Who is mean
enough to insist on FORCING saloons
upon communities that do not want
them!
SECOND.
County Option is Fair, for it asks
permission of ALI, the County Tax
payers. the privilege of licensing sa-
looms for which ALL County taxpayers
are taxed. ALL county taxpayers have
the right to be heard on whatever at
fects the TAX RATE.
THIRD.
County Option does not open the door
for FOREIGN DOMINATION of the
local affairs of the community, as in
sinMated by the Home Rule League,
laundering taxpaying farmers, but it
closes the door to BREWERY DOMI-
NATION, BREWERY COLCNIZING,
and BREWERY abettiug of blind pig.
ging
FOURTH.
County Option would not force pro
hibition upon communities that are not
In sympathy with the dry policy, for
Counties that have a strong sentiment
for saloons and vote wet are GIVEN
SALOONS wherever the majority of the
voters in the various towns WANT
THEM.
County Option is not forced absti
nence Of prohibition measure any more
| than we have forced abstinence or pro
hibition now by majority vote. Coun
tv Option would not mean prohibition
unless all the counties by majority vote
should vote dry. County Option simply
gives those TAXPAYERS WHO SUI
FER from the saloon the right to b
| heard.
County Option does not mean the
forcing of saloons upon communitie.
where they are not wanted, but it meant
the liberty of county as taxpayers, tt
determine by majority vote, by Coun
ty Home Rule, whether they will per
NIT saloons anywhere in the county
1t is not for the regulation of persona
habits, but it is county regulation Of
the County public drinking place. Thu
republicans of Nebraska, in state plat
form, declare "For tho further and
better REGULATION Of the liquo,
traffic, we favor the passage of tn
County Option Bill. -
SEVENTH.
"County Option is the best methot
sf dealing with the liquor question. /" il
the phrase Of William Jennings Bryas
has never been repealed in 16 state,
whore they have tried it. No REPEAL
speaks volumes.
EIGHTH.
/! County Option will benefit the FAR
! MERS who reside in communities wher,
the sentiment is in favor Of no license
for, while they may now vote the %
looms off their own farm, they canuo
vote them out Of the town where the,
trade, pay their taxes, attend court
send their children 10 school and wher,
4 their daughters aud wives, driving thei
teams home, meet other teams a
THEIR PERIL, driven by drunken men
| NINTH.
! County Option, with the county Law
enforcement machinery back Of the law
has, according to GOVERNOR HAN
/ LEY, of Indiana, reduced arrests TO
! drunkenness and commitments to prison
! and all sorts Of crime about 80 per cen
| in Indiana WHERE THE LAW HAS
BEEN TRIED.
TENTH.
The COTNTERFEITERS, COURTE
| SANS, GAMBLERS and THIEVES
might as well openly threaten the pub
lie at large that they will run THEE
houses secretly and defy authority, i,
they are not licensed, as for the SA
LOON KEEPERS to bull doze the vo
tiers with the threat, "You enfranchis,
the farmers and vote us out, and WI
will run OUR SHOPS secretly as blini
| piggers and will not give you dol
| lar Of the blood-red revenue that comes
across the bar as your share of tn,
/ spoils." The question is up to thu
| voters on November 9Th, "Shall tn.
PEOPLE RULE, OR THE CRIMI
! NALSi"
ELEVEN.