Bisbee daily review., 1914-09-06
DEMANDS THAT DRINK TRAFFIC IN BISBEE
 BE KEPT IN BOUNDS

The following communication has been received by The Review which gladly publishes 1t.
 J'he cold-hlooded murder of E. IT. 1 Strickland and the suicide of his slay- er should cause every right-tbipkiRs person to pause and consider if some. hing cannot be done to put stop 10 or at least lessen the numerous crimee such as have been committed in the Warren district. for which booze has been to blame. Those who have lived in this community for number of years will have no trouble in calling to mind an appall- ing list of crimes that have been per petrated by men who were crazed with drink.
 The writer was personally ac- ! quainted with Tom Arnold - had 1 known him intimately for a number of years Arnold having worked as miner at the Gardner Shaft while l was foreman. He was a loud-mouthed. cOnceited, boastful fellow, but withall a peaceable, hard working man. If he liked one, he was generous to a fault When drinking he was not the same man; liquor seemed to make him as treacherous and murderously inclined as a man-eating tiger. He had threatened the lives of several men here myself included and was nearly always armed For years he had been a source of trouble tu the local officers none of whom liked him and an more or less feared him. he being known among them as Moon shine Tom
 And yet a man like Arnold, known 10 be half-crazed and with a mania for threatening peoples lives, can se- cure all the booze he wants from prac- tically any and every saloon in the district, and no questions asked-es- pecially by the saloon-keepers. Most saloon men claim that they do not want the trade of the habitual drunk ard or that of the periodical booze fighter but it is common sight to see the worst drunkards here reel. ing through the doors Of the most pre-. tentious saloons. Business is notor. iously cold-blooded. Most men are in , the game for what they can make. and the dollars of all men look alike. During my residence in Bisbee ! have often remarked how free from certain kinds of crimes this cOmmu- nity has been: hold-ups robberies burglaries. and the like are corpara lively rare. This is to be wondered at owing to local conditions and the nearness to the International border But crimes due to booze are innumer.
 able; murder, suicide, wire-beating and the lesser ones that follow in \ their wake are constantly occurring and yet little is done to stop them. l hold no brief for the prohibition
 movement and do not believe abso
 lute prohibition possible. especially \ in mining community Neither do ] question normal mans right to take a drink of liquor but l do question
 his right to take ten. Nor do I aues tion the legal right of the saloon keep
 CT 10 sell a man one drink or a dog en. but ] do question his moral right to sell man enough of the stuff tc cause that man to become a menace
 to society l do believe that the day is not far distant when long suffer
 ing public will insist that the part played by liquor in these crimes must cease and that a strict regulation ot all saloons must be had-their nun Der reduced to the minimum ant every effort made to see that they , live up to the spirit as well as the letter of the law
 And while We are insisting that the