Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-29
AN ARIZONA TEMPERANCE LEADER

Under the caption, 'Iemperance m Arl1oha' AH' l Review of recent issue commented the proposed liquor amendment to the Arizona constitution and de- porod the fact that the of temperance which The Review unqualhedly endorses menaced by the ir rational and untenable measures promulgated by the authors of the amendment The Identity of the authors is not as generally known is the test of the amend itself which has been received with expressions of regret by an true friends of temperance in this State
 1t has been charged that the Royal Arch drafted the measure We are 10th to believe this because it would mean either that the sooaued leaders of tenn perance in Arizona have permitted themselves be in ezcusaby hoodwinked or that they have shamelessly betrayed the friends of temperance in the interest of political blacklegs.
 It seems incouceiyable that righteous could commit themselves to legislative extremes which court defeat of their righteous purposes It seems inconcey able that conscientious advocates of temperance would father an act which insults halowed institutions of th, Catholic and Episcopal churches. If the amendment is adopted it would place the celebration of high in the Catholic churches of Arizona under the ban. would make illegal the observance of holy communion in Episcopal and perhaps other churches. It would sume to invade those homes in Arizona where temper ance is observed inherent folly would throttle tho good it possesses These only few of the which led The Review state that those who vote for the amendment win comprise census of the fools Of Arizona
 In Mondays Arizona Republican under the column used as an open forum for debating statewide prohbi uon G F. Rnchart of he prohibition forces of Arizona writes as follows:
 'Last Fridays issue of the Bsbee Review affords ample evidence of lhe fact that usually editor of that newspaper must have been entertaining pro nouucod crouch He found fault with the temperance forces Of Arizona The Review is published in Brewery Gulch the hollhoe of an Arizona, made SO by the saloons line this sulch sides Breathing the atmosphere of this locality the editor of The Review looks lightly the criminal record he is helping to make Blood stains not very red after all Murder only copy his newspaper and it happens too often to merit sensational heads. The wife of the victim can faint he stand without disturbing his serene com posture. The enormous expense Of crime in Cochise county, appalling in it's magnitude occasions no alarm to him. It takes the editor Of The Review two couuns to vent his spleen against the temperance forces of tho State of Arizona"
 At risk of tiring our readers We reprint that par of the editorial to which Mr. Rinehart takes exception and for which We arc accused of "ventng our spleen"
 "Throughout Che Union there is a growing and poten sentiment in of temperance Hostility toward tha which is baolm and pernicious in the liquor tramc il pronounced. The people of the United States an aroused they have been for many years over an single issue The intelligence of the entire country Ina been awakened to an evil whose eradication has b, come a universal demand Even the co-caIIed drinkn man'-as disunguished from the drunkard-s aIisnc with the temperance movement He is not only vii ing but eager to aid a cause which will remove wha is dsrepuable from the liquor tradic concerns bot consumer and producer His support is pledged on th assumption that temperance win be exercised in drarn laws He has fear for his personal rights if ten perate methods pursued. The yrity of the ten peranco movement is increased in those states whic have adopted woman suaerage. The states which al proving themselves most enlightened are those whic are taking an active interest in the question ABIzoN IS ONE OF THESE
 But to Che confusion of the citizens of Arizona wi arc honestly n favor of such supervision of the Iqu
 ramc as win remedy immediate evils and lead to ever uaI aud actual temperance Arizona proposes to wn into her statutes a law win defeat the whoesor ends which are sought
 Fanatics on liquor legislation have preempted ( roles which should be hled by sane and competent m amendment which, if adopted would hold Arizona
 to scom and successfully invite wholesale conten for and consequent breaking the laws These fanatics