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The Vote Next Monday

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Day
24
Month
February
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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The great majority of the people of this county favor temperance. And the question ariscs how best [■all temperance be secured. A certain portion of the people believe that local option will do it. A certain portion believe that local option will not do it. We are forced to believe that the latter are correct. What will the vote next Monday mean? A vote in favor of prohibition, under the local option law, is a vote to encourage social clubs, where liquors can be freely had and increase secret drinking. It is a vote in favor of low grogeries. It is not intended as such but experience has shown such to be the fact. Experience proved it in Michigan under twenty yeart. of prohibition. It is proving it in Rhode Island and other states to-day. A vote against prohibition under the local option law is a vote in favor of high license, in favor of putting the saloons under legal restraints. Experience has shown that it decreases the number of saloons, that it tends to shut out low grogeries and to do away with social clubs. A vote against prohibition does not indícate that the voter wants saloons, wants t.o drink or wants drunkenness to flourish. The vote in favor of prohibition, under the local option law, is a vote to increase the county taxation one half. It is a vote to increase the city taxation one third. It is a vote in favor oí heavy taxation upon the villaares. The $500 license lavr has not yet been tried. We believe that under it there will be less saloons and less drunkenness for the lower class of saloons will be shut up. We believe that the legal restrictions under that law can be much more easily enforced than a law which prohibits entirely what a large portion of the people do not believe in prohibiting. It was a pretty good republican whom we heard ïemarking last week that if Dickinson was nominated for vice-president by the democrats, the demócrata would carry Michigan. Cleveland and Dickinson would carry New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana and Connecticut. It looks now as if the local option wave had reached its highth. Lenawee county, which gave a majority of nearly i,ooolast fall, only gave about 400 at the election Monday. It does not appear that it will carry in this county, although many republicans, who don't believe in prohibition, have expressed their determination to vote for it, on the plea that it would help their party to do so.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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