Arizona republican., 1908-04-27
In the May Number of Munsey's Magazine On all News Stands 10 Cents

not bad! That is not all. Listen. Be
 fore the saloons were closed, just few
 months before. a mayor was elected
 whose platlorm was profane and blas
 phemous, containing words that
 would not think of repeating. hut one
 of the statements was. The saloons
 shall run" On the llth day of De-
 cember. 1906, that mayor was busted
 from office and new election was
 held. The old parties. still dead to
 their own interests, each nominated
 d man who was in favor of the sa looms. and the people seemLG for q
 time to be helpless. What Cid they do? They said We will not stand it. We will elect our own man." Now. you know. dear friends, how hard it is for an- community to take a stand against the old parties and elect their man. They said however, We will not stand for it. and they selected pr. Gray for mayor. He was an out and out law enforcement man. What did the business men do? They put up money sufficient for the campaign. If the business men had felt the like 1 lihood that there would have been ! hard times for them. they would cer- tainly have turned their backs on the proposition. They got out an appeal signed by one hundred and fifty two of the leading business men of the
 city. to vote for pr. Gray. It worked. Dr. Gray was elected, and since that time another election has been held and the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the law-enfOrcement man. You can verify these facts. dear 1 friends if you doubt them.
 1 There is one more thing I want to
 say about this phase of the question. | Isn't manhood worth more than mann mon? If you could convince me that
 the continuance of the saloons in my beloved city meant more business I would never believe that l had a. right 1 to vote for their continuance. Man hood is worth more than mammon. ! Better keep character. at the sacrific- ] ing of business, for building material for the home and the state. and the nation than to keep success in busi-
 ness at the cost of character. I say to you this morning that in my humble | opinion. this country is making a mis- | take in catering to material things
 and forgetting the things that are moral and spiritual If the closing of the saloons in our community means 1 financial distress. let us as citizens who are more concerned for character than for gold meet that distress; if it means more taxes let us pay them: if it means less business. leT us do less business; if it means lower prices
 for our homes and our lands. let us
 sell our homes and our lands for less money: if it means that you and l. as
 followers of the King, as moral men. must endure hardness that we may
 stand for the sake of God. and home,
 and native land. let us endure the
 hardness; let us say to the saloons,
 By the grace of God We don't want
 you and you must stop
 Another argument that. l under stand. is being printed in big letters and put up in high places so that all
 can see il in the rural sections is,
 What will the poor farmer do if the
 saloons are closed?' Well. that ar gument does not fit us very we'll here We are not corn raisers in this com munity But we raise some barley, and what is true about corn is true about barley to q greater extent Oi all the arguments that child should l be able to overthrow. none could be ! more easily overthrown than the ar