Arizona republican., 1914-10-19

berty, he said, was one of the stock 1 arguments against prohibition. But this argument had been put forward by men whose supposed personal l- berty was being attacked. MT. Will kinson said that he had talked with men who had been drunkards and re- formed; men who drank moderately yet, and men who thought that they could drink without danger but they were not scared at the prospect of being deprived of their personal li- berty. They were going to vote dry. He had also talked with men who are now drunkards and they too were going to vote dry in self defense. In the name of personal liberty, the sa- looms were now trying to keep these men bound slaves to the habit of strong drink
 ! The last speaker was Dwight B. Heard who said that the one question before the voters of Arizona this fall was the vital question. There was no use to try to throw sand in the air and obscure it. The issue was clear cut and it devolved upon every man to make his position on this question plain. There was no place in the field , for towards and hypocr:tes.
 i Mr. Heard said that he was speaking | as q businessman who had an interest
 in the financial conditions Of the coIN-
 munity. Though he had always been , in favor of temperance he was not
 prohibitionist and not a teetotaller, but
 he believed that economically it would
 be far better for Arizona to be dry.
 T am opposed to the saloons" said i MT. Heard, ''on account of the economic waste they entail. l would suppress them to conserve human life and eff ciency l believe in conservation. 1 have been called a crank on the subject
 Of conservation. l have taken an ac- \ tive part in the movement that has
 brought about the conservation of the
 waters of the Salt River but far more
 important than the conservation of
 water or other natural resources is the
 conservation of the lives of our fellow
 men
 Leaving that out of the question: said MT Heard, the saloons cost the country a great deal more than they
 return. Their maintenance is d bad business proposition and it has been determined that they must go. He
 said that public sentiment had been | aroused With others he had spent a couple of days in the lower part of tEe | valley and had talked with 300 men anu ] women. Only two of them had ex- | pressed any sentiment in favor of the | saloons.
 | MT Heard disclaimed any purpose to | , introduce party politics into his re-
 marks but he pointed out the necessity
 of voting for men who were in sym
 pathy with the dry cause, who would
 enact the necessary legislation to give
 the amendment effect and who would | enforce it. There were such men | among the candidates of all parties Here MT. Heard read the following
 plank from the progressive state plat
 form:
 The progressive party standing as
 it does for those things that upbuilt : society, and against everything tha tears down and destroys the socia I ! order, supporting those things whicl make the individual more efficient
 and opposing those things which tent f to lessen that efficiency, working fo
 the upbuiding and encoura cement O
 all legitimate business and against an, a business that preys on the appetite , and passions of men, advocates tn e adoption of the so-called Dry Amend a ment" to the constitution of Arizona
 MT. Heard denounced the allianc e which had always existed between tn il saloons and machine politics. In con Q clusion he urged the voters to go to tn n polls on November 8 and vote for tn Q dry amendment.
 e Chairman Getsinger added: Go ou !, tomorrow nd work for the dry amend . ment; keep at work until November 3 : keep on working and then see tha , your neighbors get out and vote.' h Applause throughout the meetin n vas frequent and hearty. demonstrat
 ing keen approval of the sentiment I expressed by the speakers.
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