Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-02
ROMANCE, THE VERY ESSENCE OF ARIZONA
 PASSES WITH 1914
First Day of State Wide Prohibit ton Experienced in Arizona; Joy PervadeS Some While SOr- row Is More Apparent.

Intermingled with sorrow on one hand. and joy on the other, the liquor sales in the state of Arizona were ab- sent yesterday. Sorrow of the real and acute kind was experienced by many, while the prohibitionists in the state realized a condition of affairs for which they have been looking and working for many years.
 Arizona has been the land of TO- mance. The east considers it yet to be tFe land of bad men and worse whiskey. Arizona has carried with it the essence of the west Its name has been linked with the true west ern spirit They have been said to be synonomous
 But with the exit of gambling in 1908 and of liquor in 1914, the shell of encircling mystery, always connect ed with the west, will have vanished into the thin haze or forgotten yes terday
 Mothers and fathers, in the desire to enforce the laws of family necess- l ity in the future. will tell their chil- dren of possible return of the days of old, when whiskey ran rank and damp in the gutters of unpaved and unregenerated streets. The future will be a retrospection upon the past when the state went dry.
 But where will the old time loafer chew his tobacco and pass the time of day with his boon companions? |? Where will the romance. so entwined with Arizona's atmosphere, find a place of vantage to hold sway until the time when the settler will have taken the land and converted it into l pasturage for a few sheep, a meadow and a dairy farm for the production of the earth's eatables
 With the passing of liquor from Arizona, many of the old landmarks will pass. The streets. in many of ! Arizonas cities and towns, will auto matically darken theSselves. The lights, the bright lights. Of a real but superficial era, will be hung with crepe The jaw of the loafer, the Ieager thirst Of the wind-blown COW puncher and the ready loan from the white man behind the bar will take Ion a different aspect They have al- ready In the face of the loafer is that picture of lonesomeness found in the face of the waif without a home In the face of the COW punch CT, the woEGerment of child at some new and inexplicable and seeming. unreasonable order. will be found.
 The face of the man-in-whte looks to the east, to the north, to the west and to the south
 He has been beaten. Through cir cumstance, many times not of his own making, he was cast into a bus, mess that the majority of voters have declared illegitmate His hand was ever rgady to give of his goods to those who needed, many times from eXcesses of which he was a party to- His business and he were banished from a stronghold considered incapa ble Of falling before the hosts of pro hibition.
 His path, like those of his many friends and business associates. will lead afar. To wet places will he wander The line of drouth has fol lowed him, west, west, and may nov swing back and include the other points of the compass He has been beaten in Arizona and with him goes many remembrances of old-time days old-time people and the paint on the face Of the state-liquor