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