Graham guardian., 1914-06-19

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State of any alcoholic liquors. 1t
will also prevent the importation
into the State of alcoholic liquors.
1t will mean that Arizona, the
youngest State in the Union, has
taken the lead and shown the way
for nationwide prohibition and the
curse of mankind will cease to be-
come business to allow men to
barter the souls of the weak that
they may become rich and pros
porous. ....
Local option is r farce, a subter-
fuge employed by those who are
not honestly in favor of prohibiting
the sale and use of alcoholic liquors.
1t is the means used to close the
open saloon and reserve to yourself
the right to drink all you can get
and also as a weapon OF persecution
to put one person out of business
for the benefit of friend, to cut
off the profits of one legalized under
its provisions to sell liquor that the
ther or others you wish to protect
NAV have the field to themselves
and incidentally all the profits.
Local option is the breeder of
of drunkards, criminals and hypo-
critics. 1t keeps alive the liquor
business under the semblance of
prohibition. 1t does more harm in
it's insiduous way than the open sa-
loon.
But Statewide prohibition will
change all this. No alcoholic liquors
of any kind can be manufactured
within the State, neither can they
be imported into the State. The
liquor business will be destroyed
at the root, for doctors will not dare
prescribe it for their patients and
the business will end as the profits
cease.
Recently in Washington, d. c.. a
meeting was held of the American
Society for the Study of Alcohol.
This society is composed of leading
scientists, college professors. heads
of great sanitariums and eminent
medical authorities.
The papers read on this occasion
were the highest authority in the
world on the question of the use of
alcohol, and the United State Senate,
by unanimous vote, ordered the
papers printed as a government
document. This document is known
as Senate Document, No. 48, and its
title page states that it contains the
most authoritative conclusions upon
this subject.
Recent research and chemical
analysis and the united experience
of all these eminent authorities, led
to but one conclusion and that was:
That alcoholic liquor of any kind, in
any dose, was positively injurious
to the human system. That it had
no place in therapeutics and that it
was dangerous to be employed for
any person; that it was a narcotic
poison and always, under all circum-
stances, depressent, and that there
was no purpose for which it ever
bad been employed, even for its
drug action, that some other and
better drug had not been found to
take its place.
A remarkable feature of this
document is that in l79 printed
pages, giving more than two dozen
papers and quoting one hundred au-
there is no dissenting voice. |
Practically all admitted that they |
had used liquor in the early days of |
their practice, but that they had
found by experience and new scien-
tific discoveries that they were do
ing the worse possible thing for their
patients. No medical practitioner,
who makes any pretence of being
up-to-date, will use alcoholic liquor
any more in his practice.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment for Arizona does not prevent
the use of alcohol in tinctures as a
solvent or binder for other drugs,
but does prevent the use of alcoholic
liquor as liquor under any pretense
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