The Rule of "Not Too Much/' standing up in favor of local option, that is to say, the slightest doubt that the anti-saloon people would say that the municipalities cannot be trusted to regu- local option, but intend only to use this principle so Sunday liquor traffic, all the municipalities in the state far as it can aid them in the suppression of the liquor the power to control the Sunday closing of saloons, in favor of allowing any municipality and any smaller political division to decide for themselves whether or take the opposite ground and insist that it was a mat- would soon be "opened up." late the matter of the liquor traffic, but that the state not the municipality. The reason given is that the law were passed allowing any city to regulate its own cipality was in favor of suppressing the saloon while full power in regard to Sunday observance includes traffic. If a case could be imagined where the muni- must keep this question in hand. not they shall have saloons. On the other hand, they the state at large favored an open policy, there is not On the one hand, therefore, we find these people 81 The inconsistency is manifest, and it is equally evi- dent that the anti-saloon people are not in favor of true Sunday saloon is a menace to the state and that if a and that the state ought to regulate this question and