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and Order League addressed letters to the governor of of the advocates of the pretended local option bill ad- The so-called United Societies for Local Self-Gov- the state, the lieutenant-governor, the secretary of Local Option a Pretext. forth that the proposition to give the city of Chicago local option measure at all. Other instances are elo- quent to show that the anti-alcoholists are opposed sition of this home rule measure. This bill, which is subject, the anti-saloon people at once rallied in oppo- anti-saloon people are sailing. On the floor of the ness that local option is a false flag under which the the bill of the United Societies. In this letter it is set House of Representatives during the past month, one people will exercise their option in a sense contrary state and to every member of the legislature, opposing a typical local self-government or local option meas- ure to provide home rule for Chicago in the matter ure, is opposed by them. The so-called Chicago Law mitted that it was an anti-saloon measure and not a great mass of the voters of Chicago think about this of controlling the liquor traffic. Knowing what the Late developments have proved with startling clear- ernment, of Chicago, sent to the state capital a meas- to local option whenever there is a possibility that the to the wishes of the anti-alcoholists. 80

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