Arizona republican., 1915-05-02

peace, plenty and happiness-alI to
 the credit of prohibition.
 And what do we find those who were engaged in the sale of liquor for livelihood doing. We see them changing their business fronts and going into legitimate business-busi- ness that helps to build a state in stead of destroying it. Where there was once a business hidden from the
 public by blinds and screens, now , the light has been let in through large, attractive show windows, and we can see either a fine restaurant, an elegant drug store, an inviting barber shop or an orderly pool hall, into any of which the most refined may now go without public criticism. We have fought the fight, the state is dry. and we are proud of the re- suits.
 While we are pleased with the achievements of our federation in this state, vet our work is not complete. We must turn our attention to some thing bigger-national prohibition must be our next move. Experience ! has taught us that the larger the unit the better. We have come to know that city local option is better than ward or precinct option; that county local option is better than city option; and that state wide pro hibition is far better than county prohibition, and, this being true we know that national prohibition will 1 be the ideal prohibition, and to this end we must all pledge ourselves to work individually and collectively. Precinct, ward, city. county and state temperance contests have result
 ed in good, but we are looking for something bigger and better. These contests have been educating and helpful in preparing us for the na- tionaI contest in which the liquor traf- fife will be driven from the nation. Experience taught us that while these ! local contests have been good as q means of creating sentiment prepara- tory for larger movements, yet, when successful in these smaller units. we | learned that they did not prohibit in the strict sense of the word We found that adjacent wet territory would slop over into our dry terri | tory. which. to a certain extent, would automatically become wet. not by law. but by suitcase irrigation. The history Of the liquor traffic | and that of the slave traffic has
 been and will continue to be much
 the same. They tried local option
 as a means of settling the slave question. but it didn't work The agitation continued, tnd finally a l leader came forward in the person of Abraham Lincoln. who laid down the rule in his great speech or debate with Douglas that there can be but one standard of morals in this coun- 1 try. and declared that this nation should no longer be half slave and half free. He said that, that which | is morally wrong could not be made l lawful by one state and unlawful by another. This position of Lincoln made the slave question a national issue. and raised the further question | of states rights, and on these issues | Lincoln was elected president The emancipation proclamation was writ l ten, the war was fought and won. and l the fourteenth amendment was writ l ten into the national constitution 1 The black slave was freed and now in this national movement for prohi- bition We proposed to free the drunk l en white slave from his master. the 1 saloon
 In this movement we will not only have the prohibitionists with us. but we will have behind our cause the | business men of the nation-the men | that move the world
 For years the prohibitionists have | fought the liquor traffic along senti- mental lines. and while their argl1- ments appealed to the sentiments of | men. and most every body agreed with them from the moral viewpoint. yet, they gained few recruits to their | cause. and why?
 Arguments based upon sentiment alone never stirs or moves the cold commercial world The ear of the business man has always been deaf to sentimental arguments. and long ago the prohibitionist advocates be- gan to realize that if the business 1 interest of the nation were to be at tracted to his cause facts and figures must be presented proving that the liquor traffic is national waste. and materially effects legitimate business and it's profits. These facts and figures have been dug up by men like Congressman Hobson, and the great scientists of the world. and are being presented, and the business | wotld is becoming convinced that the liquor traffic is q public waste, not | only of money but of men
 The leading scientists and phYsi- clans of the world all agree that alco- holic drink breeds disease, and is therefore injurious to health. It has been discovered that the small white corpuscles in the blood are the de- lenders of the body against germs, and when drunk and weakened by the use of alcohol these little white soldiers cannot perform their duty, and disease takes hold of the system. The economists agree that the li- quor traffic is national waste. Elm ployers of labor all testify that alco- holic indulgence destroys efficiency. Our court records prove that the saloon is the mother of crime, and the fountain head of immortality. The uperintendents of our asylums and prisons all declare that their institu ticns are kept full as a result of the licensed saloon. Educators say that int@mperance blunts the mental facul- ties, and our pulpits declare that it condemns the soul
 | Congressman Hobson in his speech