The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-10-29
LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE COLUMN
Practical Suggestions on Local Option
Campaign.

cltlzenS OF Jarrett county ana the
election officials will be ready to
receive your ballots. 1t is the most i'm
portant election ever held in Garrett
county. We shall settle the question,
"Shall the saloon and the business of
drunkard making be forbidden in Gar
, rett county,"
What are YOU going to do about it?
YOU are the man, Mr.. Voter, who
will settle this question. Upon YOU
hangs the responsibility of deciding
this question. What does the best in
terests of your county demand of you?
What duty do you owe to your neighbor?
Next Tuesday YOU cast ballot For
or Against this ruinous, disgraceful
business.
By YOUR vote you close the saloon
or YOU keep it open. 1t is the lndi-
yidual voter who will settle this ques-
ton.
YOUR vote, YOUR influence is
needed to rid the county of this great
evil.
What are you going to do about it?
Will You vote Against license? Will
YOU do your part and duty in getting
others to vote Against License?
The christian, sober citizens of Oak
land plead for your help, to relieve
them of the disgrace they suffer from
the saloons of the town, Oakland is
called the "boozeville, - the drunk
ards town, the dumping town of the
| West Virginia vets. "
As Oakland suffers, every town and
citizen of Garrett county suffers. This
advertising of our county seat as a
"booze rendezvou," is enough to arouse
the righteous Indignation Of every chris
tian man and woman. Shall this co n
tjnue? Ave, increase as it is increas-
ing. In one night, on one train Y suit
case boozers left Oakland for West
Virginia. The county Jail at times
nearly filled with drunken men, picked
up on the public streets. The victims
at times robbed of their money, be it
little or much. In one case $3.50.
| Drunkenness and robbery is bad enough
but drunkenness and robbery and
Jail is the filing of the cup Of misery.
What are YOU going to Go about it,
Mr.. Voter.
IT'S UP TO YOU to decide the quos-
ton. Shall this sin continue in Garrett
county? Shall it develop more
largely? More disastrously?
What great responsibility rests up
on YOU, the Individual voter.
Realize the situation. Try to est.
mate the loss, the suffering, the awful
consequences that result from the
liquor business to our country.
Look into this question. Investigate
the subject The time is short. Il
five more days we shall cast the ballet
that will tell the story. Let these be
days of earnest prayer, earnest talk
and earnest work, by the men anC
by the women of Garrett county.
Wage an inceasing war fare agains
license during these remaining five days
from morning until night. in the home
in the store. in the church. on tn,
public highway, whenever two or tire,
1 get together, agitate the question
r Get tremendously interested and busy
1 Last week the Local Option Commit
tee mailed a copy OF the Local Option
bill to every voter in Garrett county
The Committee wanted the voter t.
read, for himself, Just what the bill
provided for, 1t is one Of the mos
clear, comprehensive bills ever otferet
in the Legislature Of MARYLAND, 1t j
Il just what Garrett county needs to pro
tect it from liquor and the liquor seller
j It's adoption means the greatest pros
perity Of Garrett county; the create
happiness of its inhabitants, men
women and children.
1t tells the man who dares to violat
the law just what ne may expect. 1t
, straight forward in its statements, s
; that the law can be enforced a@ains
the yiolators Of the oil. The bill wa
prepared and enacted for a purpose
=. and that purpose was Total Prohibuo
of the sale of liquor in Garrett county
: The bill is before you
What are YOU going 10 do about II
!, The day has come, when it is up ID go