Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-09
CHANGES FOUND BY
 ARIZONA VISITOR
 UNDER DRY REGIME
Philadelphia Official Tells of Max ing a Tour of the State and Discovering Wonderful re- forms Since Wet Defeat.

nose m NONtu WllN tue dNtNal AdNN0 will doubtless be interested in the following extravagant and fulsome article published receitly in the Phi. ladelphia North American:
 Three months of prohibition have made Arizona a new state. This ig the assertion of Director Ported of the department of public safety, who has just returned from a trip of sey- eral weeks in the west
 The directors spent two weeks in Arizona He interviews business E,cn and officials, from the sheriff aud police to the governor. What he learned from these men and what he brought back to relate in Philadelphia forms one of the biggets arguments for prohibition that even came into wet" territory.
 Crime has decreased marvelously and business has improved all in three months. Before the voters Of the state dealt booze it's death blow project was under way to build new jail in Maricopa county Nov there are so few prisoners in the olo jail that a part Of the building Is be- ing used to store county records, and. .he project to erect a new one has been abandoned
 Arizona citizens told Director Por' ter another incident and arguments oil similar character.
 From Sheriff Jefferson Davis Ad- Ta@ @f. fg14 Phoeiix is the capital the director iays. CT learned that prior to January ! the arrests for all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors in the city aver aged 90 per day Since January }, under prohibition the total number of arrests up Co the .prerent time has not reached 80. There has not been single murder committed since Jan uary ].
 "A prominent business man in PhOe- nix told me that at a meeting of the board of trade it was reported that conditions since January l were 90 per cent better than they have even been, and that in spite of the general depression business conditions.
 Prom a large baker l learned that for the first time in his business ca reer had he been able to dispose of every loaf Of bread on Saturday night From the banker 10 the conlec- tioner. every one had sInething to tell me of the wonderful change the first of the year had brought
 Governor Hunt of Arizona gave me the lollowing in Arizona convicts are required 10 work on the highways Crime has fallen off since January l ] 50 per cent, and il these conditions continue during The balance of Che ] year, We will have no conyicts to wor,, on the roads,
 "Thon l learned ol two different ways a strike was handled, one be ] fore and the other. after January i At Globe, during the latter part oi ! the year 1914 strike occurred among the copper miners, where 15,- 1 UOO are employed. Assaults, mur. 1 ders, shooting, etc., were the order of the day The strike, after much disorder and difficulty. was finally l settled, only to break out again early ! in 1915. The authorities tell me that this last strike was settled promptly 1 without even the slightest scmblance of disorder
 "In the cities and towns the build i iugs formerly occupied by saloons are beirrN made over for other lines of trade In the lumber and mining camps the For Rent sign is conspi- cuous. Even in the districts where water can not be had under any cir i cumstances and where red eye was always on tap, the saloons have shut up shop and the barkeeper is now busily herding sheep on the mesas.
 Sheriff Adams of Maricopa coun . ty, in reply to my query as Co what he thought of Che new law, replied ! Finest thing that ever happened in this state. Do you know, suh he is a Texan by birth and spent many . years of his life hunting down law. less Indians Arizona is now ready !. Go take its place among the great states of the nation The cutting out of red eye has made a most marvel ous change in our country Why. VIC . haven't had a murder since the law went into effect We have not had tc arrest a man for drunkenness, either,
 Governor Hunt, whom | met in Fish Greek canyon, while en route to . Roosevelt dam, was loud in his praise of the new conditions But, goyer nor, said, how will the state make mp for the loss of revenue which thc wiping out of saloons will occasion Q
 'The governor looked me oyei quizzically and said: Just think for a moment Consider the expenses that every prisoner is to the public There is the time of the sheriff oI the police in making the arrest the expense incident to his indictment the jury trial the district attorney and, finally, if convicted. the expense Of his incarceration lt is a drain or the community The man might be out earning an honest living for him self and those dependent upon him,
 By cutting the number of arrests in half as we have already done ", are saving money This saving 1T