Arizona republican., 1914-10-19
WHAT PROHIBITION HAS DONE

Is there any reason to believe that Arizona will profit from statewide prohibition within the next ten years, if at all? It required a generation for Kansas to reap any benefit from it's prohibitory law, according to it's supporters, and even their claims are being constantly refuted. If it re- quired 34 years for state given over almost entirely to agriculture to il take Arizona with her mining camps, her long international boun- diary and her cosmopolitan popula- ton to make prohibition prohibit?
 What is the history of other states which now have statewide prohibit tion? Maine adopted it nearly seV- enty years ago. the first of the pro- Libition states. After political tur moi and total failure of enforcement in the cities. Maine finally sickenei of the strife, the drunkenness and the law breaking. On September IA Mayor Oakley Curtis of Portland running on democratic platform pledged to repeal statewide prohi bition and substitute for it local op ton. was elected governor of that rock ribbed republican state over Governor Hodges. republican, who mad been elected on an enforcement platform, by majority of $500. A ma ajority of the new legislature was elected on the same platform, which i had been adopted by the democrats, and Maine will soon cease to be I prohibition state. Prohibition speak CTS insist that the liquor interests was the decent people of the cities who opposed it, and the hundreds of 1 those who have grown rich operating i blind tigers who fought for prohibi- l tion in Maine.
 1 Governor Hodges tried to enforce i the law. but he could not In Bangor alone. there were 355 arrests for drunkenness within 90 days, and for time Portland led all the cities oi the country in it's percentage of in 1 toXication.
 Previous attempts to enforce the 1 law almost bankrupted the state.
 Governor Locke Craig of North Carolina has been quoted as saying that prohibition had brought prospe~- ity to his state. North Carolina paid $49 900 to the government under the income tax law, next to the lowest paid by any state in the Union. and [ Kansas was the lowest with s460 Does that indicate prosperity?
 North Carolina had a surplus in ita itreasury when it adopted prohibition five years ago. Since that time the state has borrowed to meet deficits the sum of $6OO,0O0 from two insur- ance companies and a s300.000 bond issue was authorized and sold. The last legislature voted another bond issue of s1.142. 900 for relieving ths present deficit in the treasury" and other purposes set forth in the act.
 The last legislature adopted this resolution: "TEe people of North Car olina are looking to this general ls- sembly to find way to give them a six months school term and at the same time not to cripple other state institutions. It is absolutely neces- sary for the state to raise more rev. enue.'
 In many cities of the state taxes have doubled, and yet there is noi enough to run the state decently Chapter SS. printed acts of the last legislature, says: "It appears that i may he necessary to increase the amount of taxes levied by the stat for general state purposes. and tha such an increase may leave the counties without sufficient revenues with which to pay their current nec- eSsarv expenses"
 Is there any reason to believe thai statewide prohibition will work ou differently in Arizona than in Nortl Carolina?
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