Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — Blanket Remonstrances Circulating. [ARTICLE]

Blanket Remonstrances Circulating.

In accordance with a plan put on foot several weeks ago in boost of the churches of Rensselaer, blanket remonstrances against saloons are now being circulated in all the wards of the town. These remonstanoes confer upon a certain person named in each, a power of attorney to affix the signer’s name to a remonstrance against every saloon license application that may be made, within two years. They are thus not directed against any particular saloon keeper, but against all saloons. To a considerable extent this is the local option principle. This present movement, it is proper here to state, has no connection with a spite remonstrance that was talked of, by some disappointed politicians, a few days after the election, because certain saloon keepers were alleged to have voted in a certain way. This present movement is being pushed by people who are against saloons on principle, and not only in accordance with the movement started in the churches, as above stated, but in accordance with a general movement all over the state originated and organized by the State Anti-Saloon League.