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