Arizona republican., 1910-07-18

our republic. Said they. England is
 responsible for this tyranny. depriving
 us of the right of life, liberty and 1 the pursuit of happiness. There fore, we have the right to abolish
 it and to institute new government, which shall seem most likely to ef- feet our safety and happiness" The government is responsible for what
 ever goes on within it's borders. It
 matters not how diabolical that L.
 censed institution may he, the gov
 ernment granting it's permit becomes q proprietor of the same. And in
 dcine so breaks it's contract with God and does violence to the charter
 of authority, granted by the citizen,
 upon the basis of tEe common good,
 which K the guaran'.C of an honest | life. that renders to every one his
 due, with injury to none.
 But it will be urged, what will you do with that all too common dis
 position toward alcoholism. narcotics
 and libertinism if you abolish the
 use of the license system of treat ment? We are very well aware that organized society claims the right to well managed licenses and permits as a safety to the common good That
 by such means this tendency may be curtailed. bounded. housed or herded within limits easily kept under sur veillance. Whether there was ever a
 time in the history of organized so- ciety when the enforcement of law was poorer remedy for dealing
 with lawIessness than protected s. T4 seems paralyzing to reason to put it so. at least. It is contradiction
 within itself. Normal reason would suggest for abuse of privilege, i'm prisonment or the loss of citizenship
 rather than the friendly support and aid of the government in such abuse
 But whatever one may claim for more primitive conditions of society. We urge with the profound belief that such methods in dealing with sins and vices of the race are become obso- lete. We propose, without fear of successful contradiction, to prove in brief form. that such methods are verify harmful, and that the licensed system" is accountable for the growth and extent of crime to a degree in finitely incalculable beyond the plan of law enforcement, which normal government would urge.
 The weakness of our license system is this: By license we throw the evil upon a commercial basis. In other words we rent out to managers the vices and weaknesses of society, and submit the whole field of crime bo the most intensive farming possible. So that moral licaaca ,f .- passion, which is by corrupted nature only intermittent and occasional. by the laws governing commercial life. is made steady and regular, and is made to increase in awful ratio It needs no argument to prove that in eliminating appetites and passions. otherwise without value, when pro- tected by license and made legal. winI become the most valuable of all com modities known to the commercial world The reason for this value lies in the fact that the victims of these vices become so abandoned to the ravishing satisfaction of sensual fires that there is no price they will not pay the licensed manager for the privilege of their qualification There can be no burden laid upon the pro- prietors of such business by a high. higher or highest license, for he has only to resort to his victim, who knows no limit in price to pay for the qualification of his appetites. even to the limit of life. A business which produces an income so sure. steady and large. when farmed out to a com petent moneymaker, will become az gressive and be pushed to it's utmost. He will enlarge the number of his victims by tens and hundreds and