Arizona silver belt., 1891-09-19
TEMPERANCE. FEMALE SUFFRAGE AND
 SUNDAY oBsERyANCv.

A representative of strong minded women, of Kansas, we learn. is now in Phoenix button-holing delegates of the State convention in advocacy of water as national beverage and its hand- maids, female suffrage and observance of Sunday as Q day of rest We are also informed that there are others, plying the vocation of lobbyists in an endeavor to render cider mills, stills, brewers vats and wine-presses value less, without regard to their cost, or car ing for the inspiring tap, tho cellar or tho bar, the fountains of the mind. It is an admitted fact that brandy is filled with patriotic spirit, and the poet who quatts it writes nobly of his native land. The nautical novelist sticks tc port, and who will deny that the press and the punch-bowl are che. Its thunder and yitsperation are fourth proof spirit, occasionally rendered more palatable to those just entering upon the pro- fession by seasoning of lemon peel and water, and yet they deelaim through their columns against intem- psrance with uncompromising animosi- ty, out of respect for the ladies who oppose all mankind wetting their whis- ties with the titilating juice.
 A retrospect relating to the temper ance cause, going back to the time when whisky was ten cents per gallon, shows that the consumption of ardent spirits was not in the least diminished by reason of revenue and prohibitory laws, and will not until fairs, festivals, the Fourth of July and other national iabilees are abolished, for the reason that indulgence on those occasions is bred in the bone and whets the appe- tite for more of the exhilerating bever- age. It is now two hundred and fifty years and five months since the first anti-hquor law was enacted in Now Amsterdam, now New York, which for bade the tapping of beer during divine service, or after 10 o'clock at night under penalty of twenty five guilders, or ten dollars, for each offense. besides the forfeiture of the beer for the use of the Schout Fiscal or Attorney General, and as a consequence of repeated evasion of the law the Attorney General was seldom sober; hence the law was abolished; after which the elixir of life was perpetually on tap, and as Q conse- quence, the cheeks of the ancient bur ghers assumed healthful, ruddy glow, so unlike the blanched faces of tetotal- CTS that required cosmetics to disabuse the minds of undertakers that they were not soon to become corn to their mill.
 What is there in rye, corn or barley that rsnders their extracts subject for adgerte legislation? The agitation of total abstinence is, we have no hesita- tiol il saying, blow to tho granger who whistles OCT the lea, brushes in his grain, and produces still slop to fatten the American hog for the Ger man market. What the convention should do, and do it at once, is, by res olution, to release tho Kansas delega- ton from further attendance upon the convention, and acquaint her that if Arizonans insist upon undiluted whis- | ky as beverage, the matter will be re- { ferred to her, by letter, as well as the | all important question of female sui frage, of which she is also an ardent advocate, to grapple with.
 Sunday observance as Q day of rest. since the 18th Legislative Assembly turned out its restrictive act, applicable only to incorporated cities and certain buHness therein, is and has been qui- esoent since it's adoption, by reason of its being in conflict of the organic law. The reformatory delegation, whose henrt yearns for the happiness of man. kind should, by log-rolling cause the introduction of Q section in the yet em- bryo constitution curing the defect in the l5th's enactment, in order that all may smile when Q Sabbath appears,