Arizona republican., 1914-07-16
AFTER INFORMATION

Josef Schwcrtner, a saloon keeper To- cated at Wilcox, Arizona, is in search of information. and we know of no one who needs it worse. In circular bearing date of February 18th, he asked a great many questions, ending up with the statement T only ask for information how to solve all these problems"
 MT. Schwertner should not worry his brain about solving problems. It is his business to make them for some one else to solve.
 He starts out by recounting the in vestment in breweries and distilleries. and the amount of revenue paid by the liquor interests and feels that these will al! be a total loss in case of na- | tional prohibition.
 As MT. Schwertner has recently is sued another circular under date of June 22, 1914, in which he took partic ular pains to prove that more liquor was sold under prohibition than under 1 license. he has solved his own prob 1 lem.
 l If prohibition does not prohibit, then every distillery and brewery and win cry will be needed to supply the booze. l National prohibition is only possi- bility in the future, and it has nothing whatever to do with the dry campaign in Arizona; and Mir Schwertner is crossing bridges several years before he gets to them. Again all of these | breWeries and distilleries will be need ed to manufacture denatured alcohol and grapejuice, and thereby become a blessing instead of a curse.
 MT Schwertner is under the impres- sion that he is helping pay the govern ment revenue He does not know that he does not pay a cent of it. Every penny of these revenues comes out of the pockets of his victims who are on the opposite side of the bar from MT Schwertner
 These fellows who pay the revenue would get rich if they would not have to pay MT Schwertner, and others ot his kind. over s2,O0O, 100000 more than the revenue; in other words if the men who drink would pay the revenue to the tax collector instead of paying it tc the saloonkeeper they could pay every cent of revenue that they pay today and then put over 5000, 0,000,O00 in theil pockets.
 MT Schwertner need not worry abou any shortage of revenue in the citie: and counties, because. when he is re- moved. his patrons will supply the rev enues just the same as they do now and save money doing it.
 Mir. Schwertner says he is a citizer
 of the United States, and we are glaC of this assurance because we nigh
 have been led to infer from his name that he is foreigner. There are sev- eral kinds of citizens of the United
 States: There are those that are her, for the country's good, and there arc those who are here for the country's
 harm. Three citizens of the United States recently blew themselves into mince meat in New York. by the pre-
 mature explosion of bomb that they
 had made to destroy some one else, SC
 that the mere fact of mans being
 citizen of the United States prove.
 nothing
 | MT. SchwertnerS concern for the un
 employed cannot be more than skil
 deep. He has done. and is doing all h, can to increase the army of the unem
 ployed He has done and is doing al
 he can to put his customers out of
 job. He has been increasing the arm, or the unemployed and is in no shap,
 to weep any tears over the fate o
 those who are engaged in the liquo
 business when they are out of a job