Word: optional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cent.- (b) It will eliminate nearly all the objectionable small saloons and dives.- (1) They cannot afford to pay the high tax.- (c) It will reduce the number of other drinking places.- (1) Hotels and restaurants selling liquor pay the same tax as saloons.- (d) It provides for local option in towns, but not in cities...
...trump may be turned for each hand, or the same trump may be used throughout the entire match, at the option of the players; the latter method to prevail in case of a division of opinion...
Each of the three debating societies shail elect a representative; the three so chosen shall elect three members of the Faculty, and these six shall choose three additional members from the body of graduates. This committee shall have the option each year of adding to their number not more than nine members at large, to serve on the committee for that year...
...play. The rule on a fair catch provides that after making such a catch the player must first touch the ball to the ground before running with it or passing it to another player. If he does not run with the ball he may have the option of a first down on the spot at which the ball is caught, or he may kick the ball from that spot, the opposing side not being permitted to line-up nearer than ten yards from the ball...
...present law is preferable to local option.- (a) Judgment of New York City is not so safe as that of the State.- (1) The population of N. Y. City being 80 per cent. foreign-born or children of foreign-born, is unfit to decide American excise questions: N. Y. Post, 9 Aug., '95.- (2) Saloons control the primaries, and local option would put the city government in the hands of saloon keepers entirely: Independent, 29 Aug., '95.- (b) Local Option is liable to grave abuse.- (1) In Wisconsin the town goes so far as to determine the rate of licenses...