The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-10-07
AUTHORIZATION
LEAGUE MAKES An
APPEAL TO CITIZENS
NONRESIDENT WISE MAN

reasons advanced and arguments used
in support Of continuing the regula-
ton of the liquor traffic by the method
of licensing the open saloon have re-
Trained from singing mud or using
expressions that would reflect unfa-
vorably upon any person who advance
cd opposite views on the issue and
have acknowledged the right of any
person to entertain and urge opposing
ideas with the hope that ill-feeling and
animosity might be kept down and II
is still the desire of the so-called vets
to eliminate and keep out personal
animosities from the campaign, real
izing as they do that the hatred and
/ bitterness that is often engendered in
/ such contests results in demoralizing
J the social and business interests Of
the town or city wherein the contest
is waged.
Not until the communication from q
former official, (by appointment and
never by election by the people), of
this city, had either party to the con-
troversty made use of disparaging
statements, but according to the views
are inferentially lunatics and all who
oppose arguments to his bald state
ments are characterized as silly"
AS rule this word is seldom used ex-
cept by those whose vocabularies are
extremely limited and whose powers
Of expression are likewise handicap.
ped by inability TO think accurately.
From afar Off beneath the shadows
Of the mighty Oregon forests near
where the majestic Columbia sweeps
along bearing its many waters to the
Western Ocean, comes the prophetic
utterances Of this one time city OIL
cial. Without advancing any reason
whatever, he advises the voters Of Tr-
cumcari to change from the open sa-
loon well regulated and with sufficient
laws and ordinances TO regulate, 10 "A
system SO devious and so hidden that
the police authority is often powerless
to protect the public against its evil
and diabolical consequences, and also
to a system, which at this time our
; state laws are wholly inadequate to
cope with.
Like many others who have pre-
!, pared articles for publication in favor
of prohibiting the sale of liquors by
/ local option, the well meaning, but
mind befogged former city official,
places much emphasis upon the ex-
penses caused the state or county in
J, prosecuting offences, the causes Of
which are attributed to the sale of in
7 toxicants by the open and regularly
: licensed saloon. Will some Of those
who have utilized so much time and
effort in procuring the statistics show
l. ing the cost of prosecuting crimes al
legged to have been attributed to intox-
icants, not also obtain some statistics
y from local option states showing the
enpenses caused them by prosecuting
j. bootieggers. Would IL not have been
fairer TO the tax payers Of this City
IL they would publish the expense OF
Is some county or state in prosecuting
q the offences alleged to have been eaus
ed by intoxicants and then for the
"a same county and state and for ths
a same period Of time the expenses 81
caused by prosecuting bootleggers ana
II jOintists? That Is If the state ha6
once had open saloons and then adopt
e, ed state wide prohibition, or local op
ton.
n Possibly some one will say, "Wh!
the county would collect sufficient fine
of by convicting the bootleggers to pa!
W the cost of prosecution How often
ss let us ask, does such an individual pa,
fine assessed against him? Not onl,
does the taxpayer have to defray tn
%, expenses of his prosecution, but Il
IS, more than half of the cases, and thi
percentage Is too low, he has TO pa
the board bill while the bootlegger
ie' laying out his fine or serving his ja
sentence.
II local option has been such par
se' acea for the prevention Of crime
Oregon as the gentleman would hay
et US believe, to what cause does he n
tribute the murder of the warden {
ir, the State Penitentiary and the KILN
nd of the convict who murdered him
the officers sent to apprehend the sla!
an er? Possibly the article was write
as before this double tragedy occurre
'rs or our wise counselor would have to-
us that IL was due to the fact that Il
rn' City of Portland has open saloons.
na' II Ia barely possible that there Al
ds. still living in this city some who w
nd remember that this self-same orac
once advised the people that they cou
Ter pay s65,OO0 for n $4,000 water sy
tenn and operate II by making the chi
OF of police the superintendent Of the W
. ter works and thus run the syste
not without additional expense to the ci
Ing and at the same time the city deri
iad the revenue from water rents.
IN II Is also probable that few W
nm remember that at the same time he
MS vised the taxpayers that the estima
ons of S0K .OOO was sufficient 10 purcha
his the system and to put up the wat
ent tower, and there are probably tho
ng: who may know this estimate was ma
OF by those who based the figuring up
the information of those who desii