Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-14
TELLS WHY ARIZONA SHOULD NOT ALIGN
 WITH PROHIBITION
A. 8. BuCkman Gives His Views on the Way to Deal With
 the Liquor Problem.

Editor Review lt is clear to those who have given the liquor traffic care ful study that Prohibition is not the remedy We have had Prohibition by individuals and by Wards-the proht bition of liquor selling within three hundred feet from a church or school house--and we are not startled with any decline in the amount of liquor consumed
 Kansas is held up as the state where Prohibition has worked and has ac- complished great things after at least twenty-five years of trial
 Isn't it great fact that the dis cussion and agitation on the liquor question at every election since the adoption of Prohibition has had more to do with the present conditions in Kansas, than the Prohibition law?
 Isn't 1t also fact that the liquor traffic could be eliminated much quicker and more satisfactory by di- vorcing the traffic from politics and its influence upon the educational forces Of government? ] maintain that Prohibition has never prohibited and never will and why we should fall over each other in a wild effort to obtain a thing that is more trou5le than forty eats, when we can get gccd results with ver5 little effort and no trouble at all
 Prohibition has always been an un- welcomed guest in every state that has invited her to come in. and while she may be all right if she stays twenty five years the fact sull remains she does not feel at all at home and the servants make her life miserable and and she goes around more dead than alive.
 am told that you cannot separate the term Prohibition from the liquor t.atiic. that it does not make any dil- ference what you want to do. or how you want Co do it if you interfere with this traffic in the least possible way you are called a Prombiuonist and whatever you try to do is Prohi- bition
 Here is where the press could be of great service, instead of defending the traffic in a roundabout way by sayiug Prohibition doesn't prohibit the press could say, regulation does not regulate" Suppose we stop try ing to prohibit and try to regulate it and take its influence away from the government, the press and the church. and leave it standing alone with not a friend with any more in huence that tramp?
 One of the best ways 90 divorce .iL from the goyernmeut is to elect 10 office men whom it does not want and better still, elect a political party that it fights l heard a mayor say once that either the liquor traffic would get Out of politics or get our of the nation" We say. when the traffic is put out of politics. out of the press and out of the postonice, it will be out of the nation and grave diggers will be in order and no law win be necessary prohibiting it's man uiacture and sale.' As this question as very live issue ] am sure your paper could be Of great service to the public if you could give both sides 10 the controversy.
 am not afraid of Prohibition, but ] am hungry for something and the people are in the same fiz we are like hungry tramps who are offered cold potatoes when they want a Tbone steak-we take the potatoes and hope and pray for the steak
 A. R. BUCHANAN