Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-06
FEMALES GAN NJ MOREfREQuENT
 SALOONS
Law Went Into Effect Yester- day-Women Who Own Sa- looms Gan Not Run Them Says Bisbee Lawyer.

The law .forbiddfRg the sale ot liquor or refreshments to women in saloons, or the presence or lettering of women in or about places where liquors are sold under license. e1- cept hotels, went into effect yesterday and Bisbee officers are on the qni xive to see that the law is observed.
 Throughout the territory yesterday marked the end of the Amazon, whose presence has given Arizona such an unsavory reputation It is estimated that by reason of the law going into effect. more than two hundred women in Arizona will be missed from their usual haunts by frequenters Of the places where they were wont to be seen
 The operation of the law will partic- ularly effect the bawdy house keep CTS, who will lose much in the way Of income from the bar sales to the wo- men and their male admirers.
 In Douglas and one or two other places in Arizona, there is a possibil- ity that they will fight the constitu- tionality of the law, but Sheriff White has delivered his Ultimatum to the effect that he will under no circum- stances countenance the presence of women in saloons of any class. ASo it would seem that those who have in <Iicated a disposition to make a test case of the law will have ample op- portunity-
 It will be interesting to watch the stand taken by the officers in the
 1 ArFs1F the saloons in which they work. The attorney general of Arizona and Dis tEict Attorney Morrison of Yayaph county, have given it as their opin- ion that women who own saloons are entitled to conduct them personally. In this connection the opinion of a well known prominent attorney of Bisbee is interesting. He takes a view opposite to Attorney General Clark and Morrison, and if his view is upheld by the court, it is goodbye even to the female owners of liquor establishments and bawdy houses where liquor is sold. His opinion follows:
 Mir. Morrison is evidently in error in 'sustaining' the attorney general, when he says:
 Under the law prohibiting wo- men In saloons, believe that women who oTn the saloons can run them and not be held guilty of breaking the law.
 Tn Yavapai county it happens that there are three or four saloons run by widows who make their living in that manner and support their chill dren.
 My opinion has been asked, and I believe that strictly construing the law. these women who own the sa- looms can work in them under the new law as they have under the old.
 -The law prohibits any person or owner from permitting women to work or loiter in saloons. The law grants the right of women to engage in any business in which a man can engage These two things taken to- gether would indicate that women who own saloons can work in them. D
 The law doss not grant the right to women to engage in any business in which a man may engage. It has been expressly held that women may constitutionally be barred from oc- equations that are subject to license
 Bradweli vs. Illinois I6 Wal. 13O Inre Lockwood 154 U. S. He.
 The argument that the law which prevents women as owners or other wise from working in a saloon, IS an abridgment of the privileges and i'm. munities of citizens and denies those whose employment is prohibited the equal protection of the laws, because 1t prohibits a citizen conducting a lawful business is without force. The keeping of a saloon where intoxicat, ing liquors may be sold Is not mat ter of absolute right. The subject has always been considered as wholly within the police power of the iegis- psata aar2spc s9 psss sI ~ .2IplEI