Arizona republican., 1901-02-06
A communication has been received

at this office from the Republican COP
 respondent at Scotts- THROWING dale, a suburban resort OFF inhabited by many ex- RESPONSE cellent and intelligent BILITY. people. and SO far as We
 know. by none who are neither excellent nor intelligent. Scests- dale, on account of its peculiarly healthful surroundings. has attracted large number of people of culture and wealth. The community is. We judge, from the correspondence received from there from time 10 time, pervaded by a strong religious and moral sentiment. Especial attention Is paid to education al affairs. and altogether Scottsdale Is to the Salt River Valley, or We may say to Arizona. what Boston Is to. or rather used to be, to New England. We have therefore come to be interested in what transpires at Scottsdale to a greater extent. perhaps. than in the happen ings of any other adjacent community.
  meeting which in the absence Of more sober term we may call n publications or better still ratification of the act cf congress in eliminating the army canteen clause from the army reorgan- ization bill in which We all enjoy a feel ing of satisfaction at having parted company from the liquor traffic even though as some suppose We put aside the besy' of two policies presented for our choice. According to the report there were two speakers at that meet ing. Chaplain Scott and Prof Blount.
 It appears that Chaplain Seott's ad- dress was reminiscent of his long life at army posts. He is not quoted in Genunciation of the canteen but he told why army officers generally favored 1t. It Is presumed there,ore that he said that drinking was a vice among sol diers that could not be suppressed. but 1t could be controlled to a certain ex- tent by the canteen. whose liquors, though harmful as all liquors are. are more nearly harmless than those of the doggery which will be established just outside the army reservation. The cam teen was bad, but the doggery is worse. The only good thing about the canteen was that the doggery could not thrive in its vicinity. Now tha; 1t Is out of the way army officers expect to be en- compassed about by doggeries which they cannca control and that drunken ness at the army posts will be greatly increased. It is true that the depress- Ing influence of the canteen upon the private liquor trade Is so we'll under stood that lobby of liquor dealers supplemented the efforts of our ex- ton while the fate Of the canteen was trembling in the balance. We do not know, but we presume that our friend Chaplain Scott dispassionately touched upon all these matters In his address. I We confess. however, that we are | more deeply interested in the remarks | of Prof. Blount. who. in the language | of the Republican correspondent; 1 pointed out the cause for thanksgiving 1 in the fact that congress in obedience l to the demands of the people has freed | our government from all responsibility | for liquor drinking in the army. If s5.diers drink strong drink now in the l army they have to go off the reserva- ton to seek It. Thus we seem to have washed our | hands of the whole matter and ceased to be our brothers keepers. We can hardly believe that Prof. Blount's | meaning was quite caugh. by the cor respondent, for he surely would not be thankful that the soldier should be freed from whatever restraint had hitherto been exercised for his own good and thrown into the mercIless clutch of the divekeeper on the outer edge of the reservation, He surely would not desire to throw off a ''re- sponsibility" for the partial protection of weak soldier from the wolves which walt outside the reservation He would not refuse to control an appetite because he could not destroy 1t.
 Sin cannot always be avoided In the work of salvation and we sometimes have to descend to depths to raise men up whom we cannot raise from above. ---
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