Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-23
MAIN ST. PETITION
 HAS BEEN AMENDED
SOCIAL CIRCLE THAT PRETENDS
 TO BE HOLIER THAN THOU.
copy Of Petition Is Refused Reporter, But RevieV. Man Is Allowed to Read lt-Main Street Will Stake It's Chances on Two Different Sites, Likewise Brewery Gulch.


 Likewise Brewery Gulch.
 The Main street social circle, at the head of the movement for the removal of the post office to that business thor oughfare. are gathering in small sets. and with uplifted hands are thankful that they are not like other people. It resembles a kind of "Holier Than Thou" congregation, and the. Brewery Gulch crowd, when they meet the smart set of Main street and vicinity, should pass on the other side lest they give Offense.
 As stated in the Review yesterday morning the petition circulators are hard at work at s4.O0 per day, and their instructions are to get signatures race, color, or previous condition of servitude is not barred.
 One of these petitions was shown to a Review reporter yesterday, but when asked for copy for publication it was positively denied and whisk ed out of sight. The petition shown was headed with full sheet of typewriter matter, the burden of which was that the present location of the post office W cc dA ulLN P1cSC AOA NOAACA children to visit, that it was close to the Mexican quarter of town, and that the red light district was situated at the terminus of the street known as Brewery Gulch. The petition does not go into details. It studiously avoids telling that the red light dis trict is a quarter of mile at least from the post office, and that no patron of the office is compelled to pass in that vicinity in going for their mail.
 Last night it was stated that the first petitions drawn had been chang ed and amended regarding the refer ence to the Mexican quarter, and the location of bar rooms in the vicin- ity of the post office, and that it had been worked over until it really pre- sented a respectable appearance.
 The Main street social circle appa- to become an instrument in the hands of some one who has conceived the jealous and petty idea of building up one portion of the city by tearing down another. It reminds us of the com petitor who insisted on knocking his competitors business rather than building up his own.
 The removal of the post office is proposition in which every business man is interested, and which all have a right to participate in according to his wishes in the matter Each desir- able site has the right to set up it's claims for the location; but the social circle on Main street have taken it upon themselves to cast slurs on the location of business houses in one sec tion of the town while they are notice ably silent about their own virtues.
 All this talk about women and chill dren being unable to go to the post of fee without fear of insult from habit ues of the red light district is the silli- est kind of tommy rot. Every woman and child in Bisbee, whether a resi- dent of Tombstone canyon or Brewery Gulch, is free to walk any of the streets or alleys of this city without any fear of molestation. There is a code of unwritten morals in western towns which make this possible, where men hold the respect and hon or of pure womanhood and innocent children higher than anything else on earth.
 It is ed that the gentlemen at the head of the so-called Main street movement" will back water with their insinuating and knocking" petition.
 It became known yesterday that the Main street business men would first concentrate their efforts to have the post office located in the building to be erected near the flood gate to be known as the Mills-Allen building. If this fails to meet with the approval of the department they will then offer the Allen building, which is now going up on the Odd Fellows lot and joining the residence of Walter Douglas. The Brewery Gulch contingent will insist that the post office remain where it is with increased facilities, but failing in ths they will then offer the depart ment location on the site of the Du- bacher building.
 Tn the meantime Postmaster Cassi- dy has made no demand on the depart ment for increased space, and the post office campaign may be long drawn out. It might be well for both sides to keep their eyes on the middle.