The Arizona sentinel., 1907-01-23
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

the Twenty -fOurtn legislature covers about everything pertain ing to the territory that should be of interest to the people and is in every particular an able document. Facts are presented interestingly, and recommends tions for legislation fitting the development and changed condi- tions of Arizona are placed be- fore the legislature briefly, but forcibly and in a manner that must carry conviction of the governors honesty and sincerity of purpose.
 Governor Kibbey cites the fact that our morals are not exactly up to the desired standard and recommends certain measures leading to improved conditions in that respect. One of these is for the suppression of public gambling, regarding which we quote from the message:
 "One of the most fragrant of the evils of which there is just cause of complaint, and for the abatement of which there is an urgent demand, is public gam bling. I know of not single word that can be said in favor of gambling. It is productive of no good thing. It IS the direct and the indirect source of so much unhappiness, of despair, ef ruin, of poverty, not only of it's devotees, but of innocent, help less, despairing and neglected wives and children that it can have no claim on our indulgence. To it can be directly traced oth- CT vices and crimes, and of all the temptations of the young to evil and crime, gambling is the most insidious. We neglect a plain duty, about which there can be no honest difference ot opinion, if we do not at once re- move the evils and the tempta, tions of pu bile gambling.
 "I therefore recommend to you that you enact law repeating the provisions licensing gambling and making it unlawful for any person to maintain, conduct ol permit gambling in any public place, or in or about any place where intoxicating liquors are sold, dispensed or permitted to be drank, or in any other place 50 maintain, conduct or permit such gambling for the purpose of gain or hire and for any per son to gamble in any of sait places.
 Legislation is also recommend ed prohibiting the frequenting or employment of women or girl: in saloons 'or other place. where intoxicating liquors ar' sold"
 Relating to saloon restriction' the governor recommends thu enactment of "a law requiring all vendors of intoxicating Ii euors that are to be drank upol the premises where sold, to clos their places of business and t refrain from selling or dispens ing such liquors between tn hours of twelve o'clock midnigh and five o'clock a. m., of weel days, and during all of Sundays
 The message calls attention t' the tobacco evil and its Seriou effects upon the young as fol lows
 ''The ill effects of the use c tobacco upon immature yout must have impressed itself upo even the casual observer. Tn cigarette boy" may be instantl known by his sallow complexion by bis stunted development, an by his untitness for either stud or work. That the victim of tn vice cannot be brought to SC that he is blasting all his hope of future usefulness or iniiuenC renders his situation the mol pitiful. He should be disabuse of his notion that it is manly smoke, and as other efforts, any have been made, to abrids or correct the vice have failed recommend the enactment of
 law fOrhiddinU the sale of tOba