Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-29
rHE 30 PER CENT clrlzeNsHIp LAW

THE 80 PER CENT CITIZENSHIP LAW
 Close estimates show that there are In Arizona 7SO qualified male nauralborn citizens over the age of 6 years Of this number onethird or 1392O engaged in business for themselves This 27S6O wage earners who voters or natvebom citizens Thus under the 80 citizenship law would possible for the various industries the state to ploy 34,s2O men and There are now 675OO in the state the 80 percent law makes
 possible to employ but 34S2O of them 326SO men now employed give up their jobs As many of these men thus disqualified for have families and homes paid for they will have sacrifice their homes and leave the state Many others depend on todays wage
 for tomorrow's support for themselves and families Hence, this law will create want and suffering among this class and many would, no doubt become charges of the state and objects of charity Any law that denies to any sober honest and competent man the right to earn living for himself family and dwell in peace in our state is vicious law and should be overwhelm ingy defeated
 Then to bring the effects of this 80 percent citizen ship law closer home. A canvass made by one of the largest mining companies the Warren District shows
 that S5 percent of it's men are native born citizens or qualified electors" Under conditions prevailing last July just before European war started the percentage become i've then 5000 men would have had to quit Regardless of their long residence in the camp or their quafca- tons as miners the law If you not voter or native born citizen get If there be any thing commendable in the principle of citizenship law it should have consideration But certainly the very least such law could propose would be to give all non citizens within the chance to become citizens If such law be right in principle let it carry proviso making effective the end of three years after enact ment so both the laborng man and the employer of labor will have time prepare the change The law now proposed is revoIuonary-wi better the condition of no class of men, but rather will work untold injury and hardship the wage earner and industries of the state.
 And the industries of the will not calmly sit down and their enterprises wrecked by the operation of such law The only who could be brought into the state and put to work nayebon citizens Any other citizen of the United States though voter in an other state could not work here without living in the state one year preceding election The occupation statistics of the 1910 show that the only states having majority of their wage earners naveborn olt @ens are the Southern states where there is large num- Der Of natiyebon wage earners of the negro race The negro has proved fairly satisfactory as coal miner and no doubt could be used if necessary in the copper mines of this state. The importation of 2OOO nagros into the Warren District the place of the men who lose their jobs under the proposed law, or one thousand into Douglas to take jobs of the men denied right to continue working the smelters would cer. tainy not better conditions any. Yet this would be the only source from which labor could be immediately re- cruited win the electorate of this state vote to put such law upon the statute books2 By all means NO. Not if they realize the consequences.