At length the people became so aroused that the lawmakers at Topeka came to understand that something must be done in the way of temperance legislation; and they gave us a local option law.

But crafty politicians obtained that cities of the first and second class should be exempted.

This was nothing but mockery.
The cities were the very places where the law was most needed, for men from the country went into the city and there they encountered their old enemy, the saloon.

And so we kept up the agitation, and demanded that the saloon should be prohibited throughout the State.

At length the pressure became so great that the politicians understood a second time that something must be yielded to the popular demand, and they tried another dodge.