Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-07-26
MR.. COINS REMEDY

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Mr.. Cohn, of 23S East Washington
street, enters the lists and takes up
the cudgel in behalf of the saloon.
He laments that the reformers are
running the world. They are mental
1 y pe.verse and their arguments con-
torted. They hamper and handicap
the progress of the world They are
themselves the greatest drawbacks
to the advancement of society.
All this comes under the head of
important. if true" But it is not
true. On the contrary the very re-
verse is true 1t is the reaction
aries like Mr.. Cohn who have OBJ
structed the progress of the world.
II is they who operate as the barna-
cles on the ship of progress. 1t is
they who cruelty the worlds greatest
reformers. 1t is they who cruelty the
worlds greatest reforme-s. 1t is they
who nail to the cross the worlds
saviors and taunt their victims with
vinegar.
Mr.. Cohn comes forward now with
vinegar in this the great crisis in
Arizona. When the good people of
this state are trying to solve the
liquor question upon its merits; when
there is but one of two possible
methods of doing it-either absolute
prohibition or an eight-year undis
turbed reign of the saloon in every
wet precinct in the state-here comes
Mr.. Cohn with the suggestion of an
treating law as a remedy,
God pity the man who offers vine
gar when the state is so badly in
need Of water, just pure water. God
pity the man who seeks to becloud
the issue. to divert attention from
the real situation by directing atten-
ton to something that can in no
way contribute to the settlement of
the question that will be settled one
way or the other in November
When Mr. Cohn knows enough
about the issue to discuss it he will
find that there are two amendments
proposed to the constitution and
one or the other is going to carry
1t will be either the statewide dry
amendment which goes to the root of
the matter, or it will be the eight
yea amendment of the vets that de-
lays the settlement eight years more
Why does Mr.. Cohn intervene after
the issues are closed and the case has
gone to trial? Thus does Mr.. Cohn
cut himself out of court.
When Mr.. Cohn learns something
about the question he will learn that
the reformers are the moving spirits
of the world. We would still have
been in the middle of the dark ages,
full of men like M. Cohn. Mr.. COhn
has yet to learn that the question of
personal liberty is settled He is
living in past age. The things
! that are alive to him long have been
catalogued and labelled and are now
on the musty shelves of our muse
| ums and interesting only as the
| mementoes of our progress toward a
higher civilization. Why does not
Mr.. Cohn advocate slavery as a live
+, issue? Why does he not suggest
| that regulation will settle the slavery
question? The slavery question is
| just as much alive as is the ques-
| ton of personal liberty" that NJ.
Cohn injects into the arena now.
| The supreme court of the United
States and the supreme courts of
twenty two states have decided the
question of personal liberty. There
is no such thing Mr.. Cohn is living
in land of civil liberty and the
sooner he forgets his notions of an
archy the better it will be for him
The doctrine of personal liberty is
the doctrine of. anarchy. 1t is at
enmity with society 1t contravenes
every principle upon which our gov
p, ernmental institutions are founded.
The statewide dry amendment
simply stops the sale of alcoholic
court says: There is no inherent