Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21
The ' HAVE nevsT Criminal doubted hat Record. x the relation of


 strong drink to crime and of the lighter wines and beer to crime would, as indicated by the police statistics in every land, show much to the advantage Of the latter as against the former. That the brewers of our country have to answer for an overplus of low dives set up by them where liquors as well as beer are sold, is true enough. On this point Adolphus Busch himself spoke in no uncertain terms less than year ago. But this is an in eident which does not affect the argument in favor of the vinous and malt fluids.
 Washington, though himself dis tiller, was of this opinion. Jeffer- son, who had seen more of the world -assuredly more Of the European woYld-than Washington, went the length Of making a strenuous effort to introduce wine and beer to Vir- ginia by offering bonus to the vintncrs and brewers who would come and try the experiment. Not until the Germans arrived in great numbers, however, did the beer in dustry prosper.
 Touching this relation of drink to crime, as revealed by the police rec ords, am permitted by Consul Gen eral Peters to make the following quotation from the latest data com piled by him:
 The statistics Of arrests for all causes will give some idea of the effect of beer on crime. although it does not necessarily follow that the crime was directly the result of beer. On the contrary the per centage of intoxieatiOn which influenced crime possibly was very small indeed, the percentage of arrests for all causes in comparison with the population was very small and decreasing in a remark able manner from 1901, when there were 9.334 arrests with population of 4l3s- 255 to 1907, with population Of o3s,- 9S3, and only 3,sS3 arrests for all Inebriety Is not a crime in Munich nor will one be arrested for it unless connected with some other cause which
 
 There are times, the present is one of them, when beer called ~SaivatOr' Is brewed this beer is double the strength or ordinary beer and much desired by the people. Only a certain amount of this is brewed and generally consumed in two or three weeks During this time there Is a certain amount of in- toXicati0n among the people. but not of .. violent character as that produced by alcoholic drink.
 The following table of arrests will ak Nn Haaas .sT rfrr-r aNu 1901 there were .9.S34 arrests 1902 there were .s,536 arrests 1903 there were -.....-...9 .9,015 arrests 1904 there were --.........S .S.eu1 arrests leua there were -bsslF arrests 1906 there werc. .5.5sz arrests 1907 there were 3.Ss3 arrests n 1901 Munich had . population Of 413.235, in 1907 J3s,gS3, while in 1910 595,053. The statistics of arrests for that year. ] regret tO say, I have not as yet received. But it VIII, dare say. maintain the average of the above figures
 These figures are tolerably con elusive in telling their own story. They completely refute the pleas of the American prohibitionists, who, as l said, make no discrimination and allow no distinctions One and all, they are incorporate in waat they call their temperance, a single glass, according to their philosophy, being the first mile-post on the road to perditiOn, glass of beer, or a glass of wine, and glass of grog, one and the same.
 They take their stand upon total abstinence, which is their right But, not content with adopting it for themselves, they seek to force it by law upon their neighbors. It is i'm possible to reason with such . spirit It is of the very essence of cespot- ism. Gratifed with respect to in