Arizona republican., 1898-05-26
AS TO BLOCK Al.

When rogues fall out just men get
 thelr dues. When the close proxim-
 ity to an election time causes few
 politicians to turn reformers then the real interests of the people are made
 to suffer
 Anything in the shape of a reforma-
 t1on having for it's object the true
 meaning of the term, the interests of
 the people, will never meet with oppo-
 sltion from the people. When a so-
 called reformatory fit strikes in at
 source which heretofore vouchsafed
 but scanty recognition to reform of
 any kind, and from which source here
 tofore reform has always found its sturdiest antagonist, then the people,
 the respectable element of society, do
 we'll to scrutinize the efforts carefully.
 Today we are brought face to face
 with question that will not down. It
 has puzzled the world for numberless years to know just how best to handle it. Phoenix is not the first to discov- CT it, and neither the Gazette nor the second assistant district attorney of Maricopa county may lay claim to first discovery. It has agitated the cities Of the world, and today we have but to point to the larger cities to show a condition concerning the "social evil :, resulting from experience purchased dearly after long continued war against not only the evil itself but principally against the element inst now bobbing up it's head here in o,,r city.
 In nearly every large city in this country today this evil is recognized as an infectious disease, and the prin- ciple of quarantine prevails with ref erence to it. That principle is today conceded to be the only successful treatment possible of application which results in preventing the spread | of the evil and in obviating the nause- ousness of it's public Haunting from | all quarters and from every direction. 1
 That principle Phoenix adopted a | few years ago, and while we are bound ] to admit that it has not accomplished 1 all that it might if the regulations were more strictly applied, we know that it has done away with the awful effects attending the scattered habi- ,ation of the class it is sought to reach.
 And now come these terribly-in- earnest reformers in an effort to do what? Simply, when all is told and ended, to champion the social evil l, pack to a condition independent of aw, independent of legal regulation 'r restriction. back to an independ- nee of location of habitation, so that lelther citizen nor stranger may lnow when he or she rents a house in l respectable part of town who or what the neighbor is or may be. Men m the pay roll of the half world" ould not better subserve it's interest han these sudden reformers.
 Perhaps the present location of the vii is an unfortunate selection, No oubt owners of adjacent property sui CT by deterioration of values. Yet II this, and even much more in the lature of adverse argument cannot nd will not excuse the lifting of the quarantine. Fasten tightly the regu- ations you now have Make more egulations and see to their enforce nent. Build your high board fence md put on the police sentry at the gate. Do anything, the people beg, ather than turn loose these creatures with glanders and ticks among the healthy herds of humanity. |
 We give fair warning to the reform 1T with a political ambition egging jim on in this matter, that "execra- ion" will be the only cry heard by Jim on the day the ballots are cast n which he seeks to rise by the favor If the people