Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
MR.. WRIGHT WRONG

Mr.. John B. Wright of Tucson, Sec
rotary of the o-called Arizona Self
Government league, the cats-paW Sc
lected to take Royal Arch chestnuts
out of the fire, in his article Sunday
morning opens up the liquor question
just as we would have him do it.
With his difference with Hon. Eu-
gene Chafin we have nothing to do.
Chafin is abundantly able to take care
of himself; but Mr.. Wright, much to
my delight, has brought me into the
controversy and here is my answer:
An argument unanswerable, a fact
established becomes to the wet advo
cate an appeal to passion" and ''hyster-
zeal denunciation" and as such Mr..
Wright dismisses them. Thus his task
becomes easy, but he prefers to send
his argument by mail with the stamp
money of the salOonkeepers of Arizona
rather than to meet his opponent on
the stump.
The absence of Mr.. Wright from
Tucson need not deter him for mo-
ment from his fun. for l will be in
Tucson next Sunday and Mr.. Wright
can be accommodated on the grounds
he has stated, he to, defend his eight
year amendment, l to defend the state
wide dry amendment.
l will promise in advance that l will
deal in nothing but logic and facts
and here and now authorize the chair
man to call me down the first time l
resort to ''fanaticism" l know how
fanaticism gets on the nerves of the
man who attempts to defend the liquor
traffic
Mr.. Wright's confession that he is
for the liquor traffic because it is legal
and that he will be against it as soon
as 1t becomes illegal is one of the most
pitiable confessions of moral weakness
have ever known. According to this
logic of Mr.. Wright no reform could
ever be accomplished in a world of
Wrights.
Slavery was once legal and if all men
had been Wrights we would have had
slavery yet. but thank God for Abra-
ham Lincoln who was opposed to it
when it was legal.
The men who oppose wrong nave
been the saviors of the world. All the
law on the statute books cannot make
wrong right although they can and do
make Mr.. Wright wrong.
Mr.. Wright is wrong about the boot
Ieggers being on our side. Not boot
logger on earth but opposes prohibit
ton unless he has some Royal Arch
1T
| tend to be against it. Under prohibit
| ton he is an outlaw and pursued and
| fined and jailed. He hates prohibition
worse than the devil hates holy water
and no one knows this better than Mr.
| Wright.
There are more bootleggers in New
York City and Chicago than in all the
| prohibition states in this union. They
thrive only under the license system
! There are more than 400 bootleggers
| in the wet state of Arizona, far more
than would be possible under prohibi-
ton. Under the license system they
| the not disturbed No one is concerned
whether they sell or not, for if they
did not the saloons would.
| MT. oHdliH Is llShl "iich ne pi"hu
Mr.. Wright's circular as tissue o.
lies. 1t is nothing else. 1t states ovel
Mr.. Wrghts signature mo member Of
The League is engaged in OF connected
in any manner with the liquor bust
ness"
Mr. Wright must have known, or i
he did not ne has no excuse for no
| ha
majority of the names of vice prcsi
| dents of the League are either directl.
or indirectly connected with the liquo
business.
If Mr. Wright will confine his argu
ment to the Taxpayers circular ISSUED
by myself. he will find himsel
swamped with the most resistless ant