The Parker post., 1914-05-09
WACE-EARNER
ON SALOONS
STATE WIDE PROHIBITION HAS
EMANATED FROM THE WORK.
ING cLASS-SALOON A MENACE
TO ALL CLASSES.

There is no class whose interests
are more concerned and whose vel
fare is more involved in the cam
Daign for the constitutional abolition
OF the liquor traffic in Arizona than
the Wage-earning class. More than
professional men, business men,
churchmen or society leaders, are
laboring men affected by the traffic
in liquor, and upon it's sale or pro-
liibition largely depends their hap
illness, health and prosperity.
From the ranks of labor is taken
the material On which the saloon
feds and thrives. Working men
even more than those persons whose
iFHs have been spent in studying
realize the extent to which the liq-
.lmr business has become woven int
the social and industrial fabric of this
country. penetrating their private
lives, permeating the factory, the
home, the school, in fact, becoming
SO much Of working. factor in
their daily existence that they can
not escape it for a moment, because
of the omnipresence of it's tempta-
tons and influences and effects.
There are those who themselves
are hopeless victims of the drink
habit; there are those who drink but
could abstain were it made diff
cult to secure; there are those who
drink only occasionally, and those
who never taste intoxicating bever-
ages, but all of those classes possess
and must needs recognize a common
interest in the problem. and its So
luton is of benefit to the last named
class as surely as to the first.
For years workingmen have
watched the spasmodic, inharmo-
nious efforts at solution put forth
by Temperance" and prohibition
forces with their many varying ideas
and methods, and a large percentage
have vainly hoped that at last, by
some strange development, the end
would be achieved. But only partial
success has been attained. Now,
however, there is being prosecuted
movement which has for it's OBJ
ject the final disposition of the
menace of liquor-the absolute pro-
hibition of the sale, trade and manu-
facture OF Intoxicating beverages of
any sort for whatever purpose in the
state of Arizona. 1t has emanated
from the working class and has been
accorded by those other groups and
forces a support amazing in it's
solidarity, harmony and cooperation
such support as never before in
portion of society to any mOvemer,
designed to benefit the working
class. Surely this is movement
OF startingly immense proportions.
and its results, if it is to be success
full, will be most sweeping and thor
Ough.
1t is one which should be accord
ed the moral support of every labor
ing man in the state The legisla-
ton which it is designed to bring
about admits of no compromise. 1t
does not provide for regulation, or
local option; it does not permit drug
stores to dispense liquor, or physi-
clans to prescribe it, or hotels to
serve it in dining rooms, or any
other of those compromising pro-
visions which SO often have been
tried, only to have their fallacy
proven in each instance, thereby
creating an adverse sentiment to-
ward the whole movement and thus
retarding seriously the anti-liquor
crusade.
Hundreds OF wage workers in this
state will sign the initiatory petition
now in circulation for this amend
ment. and hundreds more will vote
for it next fall. And why not? Why
should not every enfranchised labor
ing man in Arizona cast a vote for
himself in the coming election? And
truly a vote for this amendment is
a vote for himself
There is not one who can cOnsis-
tently, truthfully claim that his con
ditions of life are better because OF
the saloon, or that has environments
are more desirable with the saloon
than without it. No wage-earner
can show wherein he or his family
is better or more warmly clad, or
their food of better quality, or their
home life more pleasant, or his work