Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — IT WON’T WORK. [ARTICLE]

IT WON’T WORK.

Mr. B. F. Watson, an Indianapolis lawyer and legal author, has written to the Phalanx, the Prohibition organ, to the effect that there cannot be a county unit and a township unit at the same time. He therefore declares that the enactment of a local option law for the county would necessarily destroy the township unit for remonstrance, and that if a county should vote wet it would be wet all over Commenting on this statement the Columbia City Post says: ‘‘All of which is clearly apparent to the man of average intelligence. If a vote is to be taken by counties and the county goes wet, it is wet, thoroughly wet, without a dry corner in it. Two-thirds of the townships of Allen county a fie dry because the people want them so. Should a county election be called and the county go wet. which it would on account of the city of Fort Wayne, the people of these dry townships would lose all they have gained by the remonstrance law. It is foolish to say that when a county speaks as a unit, a part of the county may then speak otherwise." Surely it must be apparent by now that the Democratic plan is the only real temperance proposal before the people.