Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1908 — THE BETTER PLAN. [ARTICLE]

THE BETTER PLAN.

Local option b> counties 1b & logical a*4 reasonable proposition. The cry of those who favor the Democratic ple% of local option by townships aqd wards that ,the county unit fa against local/ self-gcvernment will not hold good. It would be equally as foolfab to say that she state ■ShCwld not pass laws aff&fetliigr county go verb men t. Everjt cst£eit of k cdtftrty la IntertWtdd" In the mbral and physical welfare of every other,citizen of,the county. .It seat or In the out township. Tt>| galpqn at the county seat fa more located near hla home. When at home IS uhdbr the control and restraint of parents arid friends. He'vroyifl be ashamed ! to go In a saloon it home, bqt whefl away from home and with a crowd of congenial spirits he la often tempted to enter the satoon and contract a habit that may ruin him for life. This la, the rule and practical experience of, hundred* ' of, country *97*- toe temptation In home township, he has Fallen into the trap at the county leaf.' So it Is plain j and reasonable that the people of the "out towfiiihibß” do'have an interest—and a vltil Intbreiit- 1 -!!! the moral atmosphere of the county seat. Under the, theory ol the Democratic platform on* small ward in a city might be wet Wbß# every other ward, in the aiyS eyepr township Ip the county would go dry by an overwhelming majority. This'll 4h outrage bn majority rule. The Republican platform proraIses the better plan, local option by ootmtles. All patriotic, law- and orderlorlng people should study well this grtot problem and vote tot the party that" will give the people of a county the moat whole soses and moat benefit-; dal law*.