Arizona republican., 1908-04-27

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 a market for his corn. Let the govern
 ment teach us a lesson from figures two years old. How much corn was raised in this country then? Three billion bushels. How much of it was used in making the strong drink of that year? Fifteen million bushels. What per cent is that? It is not one per cent. It is only one half of one per cent. One-half bushel Of corn i out of every one hundred bushels the
 farmer has goes into the making of whisky. 1 used to be a farmer in the Buckeye state. We used to think we were quite successful if we raised fif- teen hundred bushels of corn. If li- il QUOT had been voted out. then we would haze had seven and one-h half bushels left over for the next year.
 You could almost feed it to the pigs at one feed. and yet the saloon men will stand up and say What would the poor farmer do if he didn't sell his seven and a half bushels out of fif- teen hundred bushels?"
 But here comes a man who says
 We will not stand this. This is de- privins the individual citizen of his liberty. It is an infringement of the | iiOtiAN OA Ohi 'puhiA W iietl lS ilD- erty? Is liberty license? That is what some men will say. Some men say it is the right to do as you please. If liberty is to do what you please and you want to do one thing and I want to do another thing. we will have a sorry time of it. Liberty is not to do as you please but it is the right to do the right. It is the privilege to follow l ttriil ac rk-fn does not lead on to interfere with the rights and privileges of others. A man has no right to do evil to him self You have no right to do one thing even that flinders your own prosperity. that hampers you, and that
 damns your own soul. Here is a man in your presence, sane or insane. put ting dagger into his heart or drink
 ing dose of poison. or getting ready to jump into Q lake. You claim the right to stop him. You don't grant 10 the man the right to do as he pleases in this case. If that is good logic. I
 have not right to do as I please. Here is a man who comes and hurts
 me little. I take out pistol and
 shoot him. I have not right to do
 as please though live in a land the 
 dom. You have only right 10 do ! what is right. Listen to what the
 laws are saying. Here are the words Of two decisions. both from the United
 States supreme court: No legisla- I ture has a right to bargain away the public health: the people themselves cannot do il. much less their servants" Remember that is from the United II nd In | other decision in almost the same lan | guage: No legislature can bargain l away the public health. or the public I morals. or the public peace" If that | does not come dangerously near put l ting the United States supreme court in position that. when the question | is presented. Are the saloons consti-
 tutional or unconstitutional" it will
 be compelled to say. They are uncon-
 stitutional." truth is somewhere gone
 astray. If that time ever comes. we
 will have temperance with a ven
 geance-We will have temperance with I vengeance God hasten the day! Now. an argument or two of more ! general character. The day is past when We need to argue that the sa-
 loon is the crime producer of the
 
 : dent fact that the closing of the sa- l looms means the lessening of crime. Listen to little bit of history A lit l ! tie while ago when the earthquake p came 10 San Francisco and after the $ l earthuuake the fire. as a matter of simple safety of the people the saloons ] were closed and they closed them S tight and good, and they kept them la1A 1..r,rr irfan i'm l I.have this statement from one who = claims TO have been an observer of the q facts. they opened the saloons. This Y man says that the Monday after the |. saloons were opened there were sev- ?, enty-four arrests against four the last t Monday before. while the saloons were Il closed He says on the Friday the r first Friday on which the saloons were II open. there were seventy-two arrests | against two the preceding Friday. on t the second Monday while the saloons t were open. there were one hundred 1t and thirteen arrests reported as |. against five on the Monday two weeks = before that don't want any better n evidence that the saloon is the crime : producer was in Flagstaff few @ weeks since While there We went II a asked the sheriff How many men Q are in the jail?" He said. Twenty 1. seven How many of them are here f directly as the result of the saloons in il this town?" Fifteen What do you n think as to the character of the sa- , loon?" If there were no saloons in F this county I would soon be out of a
 job The saloons are the crime pro- o ducers of the country and let us not ! forget it for d moment. Do you want . more evidence? Here it iS. Go to the fl Kansas City Star of September II ', 1906, and you will find this statement: When Judge John T. Sims came tC fl the police court this morning and Wa:
 informed that the docket was clean , that there were no prisoners to come - before the court. he spoke as follows; Il What? Do you mean to say that 1T g this city of S5.0O0 we are getting St
 good that no arrest has been made 1T n twenty -four hours?' That is record Q breaker," or read from the Kansas - City Journal of April Is, 1907. the fol x lowing:
 "a "A Judge Without a Case.
 Police Judge John NJ Woodward O