Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-06
rAs PRsscorr CRUSADE


 Prescott comes to the fore in a timely movement to rectify grievous mistakes made through the improper use of the initiative and referendum te election It is proposed to deliver to legislature the signatures of fifteen per cent of the electors of Arzdna pet- ton calling for special election upon the repeal of the socaled Mothers Pension bin and the elimination of objectionable features in the Prohibition Act
 Prescott has taken the lead but the legons of electors must come forward to the support of the leader The movement deserves hearty support Prescotts appeal for organized enor in every county in the State should meet with prompt acquiesceuce. Cochse county must not be lageard in the cause It is none early for our local leaders to get busy NOW aud cooperate with Prescott
 There are few questions which do not contain two sides The Mothers Pension Bin is of these few. It is utterly lacking in benedcieut purpose Its en iorcemeut would amount to brutal practices Its most vital germ is maeyolent as affecting the socia' order and society must cast out the furtherance of self protection Arizona has no intention of shirkng hc responsibility of caring for the aged and the suffering who fall within her borders although different inter preaton placed her attitude by the outside world which has the passage of the merercious pen sion measure Cast 1t out, Join with Prescott in ac complaining the overthrow!
 Special election treatmeIt for me weak features of the prohibition act however may well give to tbe electorate Yet few will gainsay Chat there is need of it. As it is written upon the statute books today it is un tenable if its provisions were enforced literally. The best that its defenders can claim it is that u mean. less than it says
 The liquor interests, according to assurances from Prescott are not behind the eHort to carfy the act Nothing is more certain than that the people of Arzona would not tolerate any attempt upset the popular yer dict against the ndscrminate sale of alcoholic beverage in the State Nothing is more certain than that the prn cipe proclaimed in the act must be maintained The proposal to submit the act to special election may wei be taken to mean that conservative thinkers in Auzon' are convinced that the principle contained in the measur iepordized by ts unnecessarily drastic demands Ar zona may well take warning from the experience O Alabama which voted itself SO dry that the lid warped under the pressure of public dsapprova and the stat reverted into a condition Of alcoholic swamDiness.
 We believe that the people of Arizona meant thi when they voted for prohibition: that vending of liquor must cease that the saloons must close and keep closed that subterfugos whereby alcoholic beverages could secured must not be countenanced We do not beliey that Che people of Arizona are in sympathy with mes sure which prohibits the use of acoho for WedciHa sacerdoal or other purposes distinct from employmer beverage.
 Until it is evident that Che principle of prohibition attacked there is no reason for the "drys' Co becom alarmed oyer the proposed reconsideration of the met sure Unjustiaed alarm would inevitably have the ene' of imperillug the good intentions of the Prescott err esders If is a more generous view which has it th' they appeal to the electors of Arizona with clean hes and therefor lofty motives Wherefor; Yale' Preseo'