Arizona republican., 1908-04-28
A REPLY TO SAN.

FIX kansan objects to what he is
 pleased to term my rosy view of Kansas in regard to prohibition and adds that no thirty years ac-
 quaintance with that state he has not
 gained any personal Knowledge favor able to the bentficient results of pro- hibitiOn, and from this, one infers that he has not gained much knowledge in
 any other direction, except in favor of
 the saloon and it's rapid strides in the country's policies; just think of a sane man taking a position opposed to de cency common sense, and every other sense, but the very lowest work de- bases. As to Oklahoma's position on the prohibition question I will refer ex- Kansan to MT. Luke A. Landrum, ex- sheriff of Ardmore, as to the effect of prohibition in that new state which has started right; realizing as all conscien- tious, progressive people do that tenn perance is strong spoke in the wheel of prosperity. The very men that fight for the saloon, and hate prohibition as they do smallpox, know as we'll as the rest of us, that theirs is the devils oc- cupatiOn, and shun gatherings of re-
 
 tender in the land but would happily give up 6 position behind the bar if something just as remunerative, with no hand labor were offered him, but being once in the rut it's hard to get out for once a bar tender man is summed except by drunkards and beer swillers-"he's nothing but a bar tender"
 =. an individual as ex-Kansan 0hanks for the eX say all real Kansans) should have observed the statistics of the city clerk of Kansas City and then fail to observe those of City Attorney Trickett of Kansas City whose veracity is un questioned, whose work in that city, is matter of record, and official, show in that the city is prosperous as never before in it's history, it's watchword-l peace, prosperity and prohibition-the three P'S that are the forerunners of the great P that spells progress. How is the difference between MT. Trickett's statistics and those of Geo. Foerschder, Jr.. city clerk, referred to by ex-Kan san to be accounted for? | Why is the whiskey ring so interest ed in the farmers just now? Why such an effort to protect the farmers from higher taxes? Is not the farmer and every other taxpayer already pay ing taxes to support institutions that are a result of drunkenness? Poor houses, idiots, asylums, insane asylums and others too numerouS\to mention. Saloons make business, a town must have saloons to prosper Who hasn't heard that statement? Just think of the prosperity, the business of town depending on the saloon for a business basis. How long would it stand? This is just as falacious as that other worn out club prohibition will not pro- hibit" with which the whiskey ring keep their besotted slaves in line. The handspring spectacle of the brute Young who went home drunk a few weeks ago and beat his wife till she had to flee from home, for protection it seems would cause every sober sen- ] sible. man in the country to vote for prohibition: such scene in the capital of Arizona! That man got ninety days in jail. as a medal for wife-beating. | The county takes the man and supports 1 him ninety days-plenty to eat andi nothing to do. Does the county sup | port the wife and children during that time? It seems the expense was tool great and the brute was pardoned: in l the state of Oregon that man would | have received fifty lashes or more on the bareback and his freedom: and another drunken spree, and more wife 1 beating, some more iashes; this is more 1 successful, and a much quicker cure for drunkenness then the Keely Cure,