LOCAL OPTION “ TRICKERY.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1001, 13 May 1909, Page 21

LOCAL OPTION “ TRICKERY.”

They beat us for vigor of expression in the great United States; or else the circumstances of their situation call for stronger language. Speaking in the Senate House, Idaho (U.S.A.), on the Local Option Bill, Senator Macbeth said: —“This is the first time I have ever seen a bill attacked, the authors of which did not dare to enter a word in its defence. The bill is a trick, breathing political dishonesty and unconstitutionality at every pore, a make-believe, a ibotch, a makeshift, a subterfuge, conceived in a spirit of intolerance, bom when the star of hypocrisy was at its zenith, and foisted upon a credulous public as a political sop with the fact well known by its authors that it will not est local option law.” We doubt if now make the charge against the majority that it is not enacting an honest localoptionlaw.” We doubt if ever a more finely-balanced collection of words was ever put together to describe the true inwardness of a confiscatory measure.