Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1905 — Wide Scope of Moore Bill. [ARTICLE]

Wide Scope of Moore Bill.

Early this winter this paper pointed out as one feature i i whioh the Nicholson law eipeoially needed improving in order to give the people that measure of local option which they were justly demanding, was to give entire population of places like Rensselaer the rig ht to remonstrate, as one body, aad not to confine this right to ward limits, We pointed out that all the people of Rensselaer for instance, and the surrounding country, were just as vitally interested the question of having saloons in the First Ward «s t e people of that ward, themselves Yet as the law was.-ro rnat'er bov greatntay have been the popular majority egainst saloons in the comunieuity in general, yet while the friends of saloons could pe*euade, buy, bulldoze or coloniz; enough voters in that ward to

make a bhre m r .j -rity, just so long I were the temperance people po^ie*-! less to effectually epposn salo >ns i here- The interest of tin peop’o I of Rensselaer, an;l lerge’y of I Marion township, area unit, and , thav ought have the rig it lo act ! H 3 a unit on this saloon question. This right whs asked of the Legisature ar.d wt believe the law as it now stands fully cone d s tint I right. The bill gives the right to reraonstrate against individual applicants and also against ad saloons. And it cot only gives wards in oiti-s suoh right t > remonstrate, but also giv.'S the entire township, i .eluding any city or C'riea, ni such township the right to r aooris rate, the opening paragraph of the Moore b U reads as follows: r* • * If three day a her re anv regular so sion * f the B isrd of Com mis sinners of any county, a rem list: ai.c-i in writing, signed by a m joritv of the leg*! voters Vs an township or ward in anv city s to ate I in i-aid c unty. shall be fiilel with the auditor of the ooon'y i gainst the granting of a I cense to any applicant or against stub granting to all applicants * * *lt shall be unlawful thereafter for such Board

of Commissioners to grant license to any such applicant therefor during the p riod of two years from the date of filling of such remonstrance; or if such remonstrance shall be against all applicants then it shall be unlawful for said commissioners to grant a license to sny applicant therefor during a period of two years from the date of the filling of such remonstrance against all applicants. That this law do?s so give entire townships in which cities are situated the right to remonstrate, is the view taken also by the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, and they are already preparing for an anti-saloon campaign, on that basis, as soon as the Moore bill goes into effeot, on proalematicn of the governor.