Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-10-12
HOME RULE MEANS RUN RUL!


On the eth day of next November
the electorate OF Michigan will de
eide the most momentous question that
has or will confront our common
wealth in "A quarter of a century.
SHALL MICHIGAN ABOLISH OR
PERPETUATE THE SA l. 90 n ?
With absolute clearness that issue is
drawn. To adopt the prohibition
amendment will abolish the saloon
from Michigan forever. To adopt the
socalled Home Rule amendment will
carry the saloon into every nook and
corner, into every school district, and
voting precinct, into every city, town
and hamlet in this great state. No
eXaggeration in that assertion. For
the Wet amendment, which is falsely
STYLED "The Home Rule Amendment, >"
is so drafted that it destroys all our
present local option laws, and throws
the state wide open to the unre
strained, unimpeded, unregulated
ravages of the un-American, anarchis-
tic, law-defying, home-destroying
gregg shop. Let no one be deceived.
Let the Home Rule amendment carry,
and on the day that the law so adopted
becomes effective the saloon will open
again in Alma. 1t will open with the
full sanction of law. With all the
protection of the commonwealth of
Michigan around it. Into its doors
will walk our boys and girls, and out
of it's doors will leer the brutal, blear-
eyed. besotted drunkard. That is the
prospect that is right before us. Does
the electorate of Alma and Gratiot
county want such condition If any
voter does not want such a condition
on our streets there are three things
that he must do: /. He must register
before November eth. 1916. 2. He
must vote YES" for statewide pro-
hibitiOn. 3. He must vote NO" against
the Home Rule Amendment. If
voter does not register this fall he
cannot vote at all. If he votes for
Home Rule or neglects to vote against
il he will bring the saloon with all its
evils. with all its infamy, with all its
pollution, with all its filth, with all its
corruption back to Alma 1t will not
suffice simply TO vote for prohibition,
if you wish to keep the saloon out of
Alma. You must vote against the
Home Rule amendment. FOR EVEN
If PROHIBITION CARRIES, AND
THE HOME RULE AMENDMENT
CARRIES. THE HOME RULE
AMENDMENT WILL BECOME LAW
AND NOT PROHIBITION Does the
dry voter realize the significance of
that statement, which is perfectly cor
rect. The Home Rule amendment is
timed to become effective at a later
date than the Prohibition Amendment
And high legal authority affirms that
in the event Of both amendments car
rying the one that goes into effect
first will be the law of the state until
such time as the second amendment
shall under its terms become effective,
when the one which went into effect
first becomes null and void, and the
one that became effective last becomes
the law of the land. Important as it
is that every man who loves his home,
who loves his children, who loves his
town, who loves his state, who loves
ais country, who favors decency and
sobriety, and law and order. should
vote YES" for prohibition it is just
as important that he vote mo-
against the Home Rule amendment.
This is not a matter of religious creed
or party politics 1t is life and
death struggle for supremacy, between
the business world, the home building
men and women, the law-abiding citi-
zenship of Michigan and the brewer
saloonkeeper, the bartender. the bar
fly, the boozehoister. the spiggottwis-
tel, and the underworld denizen. Vot-
err where do you stand? Go to the
polls on the seventh day of next No
vember. For the sake of the homes
Of Michigan; for the sake of the boys
and girls of Michigan; for the sake of
the business prosperity of Michigan;
for the sake of all that is holy
and pure vote YES" FOR PROHIBf-
TON! AND mo" AGAINST THE
HOME RIFLE AMENDMENT