ganization. The bill introduced in Illinois is a sample. fanatical minds wholly incapable of grasping the fund- Anti-Saloon League and are gotten up with the in- The crop of bills dealing with the liquor question Local option in its proper sense is something that mittees of the legislatures plenty of work. option bill. season. From all the States bills are reported by the ing, nothing more than local self-government, and as where. In most cases they represent the efforts of the score. If all these bills were to be read and considered, is near to the American heart. It is, properly speak- The "Fake" Local Option Bill of the Anti-Saloon there will be enough left to give the respective com- majority are the product of ignorant and frequently It masquerades under the captivating title of a local likely that many will be seriously considered, as the as well as legislator. A genuine local option bill there would be no time for anything else. It is not amentals of this complicated matter. But even so, such appeals strongly to the mind of the average voter So-called local option bills are to the fore every- League. (February, 1907.) sincerity characteristic of the productions of that or- The Rule of "Not Too Much" seems to be uncommonly big the present legislative