Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1902 — War On Saloons. [ARTICLE]

War On Saloons.

Anti-Saloon League of Indiana Starts a New Move. Advice from Indianapolis are to the effect that the Indiana AntiSaloon League, makes bold to state that it will wipe out 1,000 saloons by next Fourth of July. The plan of operation is outlined in the following Indianapolis dispatch: “At the next commissioners' courts in September I think it a conservative estimate to say that 100 saloons of Indiana will be put out of business,” said Charles J. Orbison, attorney for the League today, “We are counting on successfully remonstrating against an average of 100 a month. One thousand saloons closed up by the Fourth of July, 1903, is our goal.” This kind of death dealing received an immense impetus when the supreme court decided that one person can give another written authority to sign any and all remonstrances against applicants for saloon licenses. Attorney Orbison is of the Opinion that the legislature. learning of the workability of the remonstrance under the written authority decision of the Supreme court and of the wide use to which it is put, will not dare to interfere with existing law.