Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-11
Much Discussion Among Bus mess Men Relative to the Statement That States Are Passing Fragrant Laws.
EIGHTY PERCENT ACT
 SAID TO BE TARGET
Declares Laws Such as Ari- zonas Recent Election h. voked Are More Danger of
 War Than Other Activities.

There was much discussion in the Warren District yesterday on the statement of ex-president William II. Taft. relative to the assumption Of congress Of power to prevent states from violating bylaws of the United States or from other lawless activities which are violations or treaties Of the sovereign with for eign countries. The application of the discussion was on the lately en- acted eighty percent bill" of this state.
 While there was no ponderous be- lief that the passing of the bill will lead to such complications as eX- president Taft suggests, there was unanimous opinion expressed on the streets and elsewhere that the new statute Is very much in conflict with the treaties of the country with Italy and ohers of the foreign powers, and that the severe complications are npt to arise before the bill becomes an active law in this state.
 Mr Tafts statement was:
 The only real possibility of war forsee is wanton. reckless, wick ed willingness on the part of a mar TOW section of the country to gratify racial prejudice and class hatred by fragrant breach of treaty rights in the form Of state law or by lawles5 yiolence.'
 While no state was directly point ed out in the statements of the eX- president as having passed such laws as be refers to. there is little doubt in the minds of many in this district that Arizona and some of the initiat- ed laws, especially the eighty per cent bill, the blacklist and mothers pension bills, passed in the last cleo ton. were uppermost in the mind Of the speaker. In statements common ly heard yesterday, Taft was given much credit for his discernment Of the far reaching results which some of the late laws of this state are sure to have.
 The eighty per cent bill. it is point ed out is admittedly passed by the labor classes and organizations Of the state to "gratify racial prejudice In the literature accompanying the bin in the state prospectus and pre- pared in support of the bill by tho labor element of Phoenix they state they would exclude by the measure from the state of Arizona, "a majori ty Of them (foreigners) who have nc intention of ever becoming citizens in the land of their temporary adop ton" Class hatred is also admitted in mild form by the labor writer wh' prepared the appeal in the prospeC tus when he refers to discrimination of Arizona corporations against nat ive-born citizens.
 Business men of the district yes terday stated that they are convince that the class legislation and hatre shown in he bill are wholly incOmpa ibla with clauses of not only th fttutes of the United States, but wit treaties of he United States with pra ucally every foreign nation on th globe. and that the appeals of th Bisboe subjects of Italy and Englan will lead immediately Secretary State Bryan has had an opportunit of studying the act, to internation' difficulties or to an abrogation of th late attempt of Arizona labor to e clude foreign labor from the state.