Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-11
BUCHANAN REPLIES TO ARGUMENTS MADE IN
 CIRCULAR BY "WETS"
Cochise County's Temperance Leader Takes Up in Detail the Several Claims Launch ed by Advocates of Saloons.
(BY 4. B. eucknam.)

The circular says: Tt is an insult to the manhood of the American pec- pie to be told by the sponsors of pro hibitory laws that, like the Russians, they cannot be trusted to use such beverages in moderation"
 Divorce the saloon with it's socia- bility. profit and political influence from wine, beer and 'whiskey and the great battle for temperance will be won. know of town with German population that has not had a sal oon in 36 years and we do not believe a home in the town is without beer in the cellar. but these same people voted to keep the saloon out by a vote of POI to 16. It is plain that they did not want to be imposed upon by the saloon.
 The circular says: Prohibition agitators. largely through fabulous and extravagant misrepresentation under the guise of morality. appeal only to the emotional side of human nature"
 For many years the suffering of men with delirium tremens; the bar ren home of the drunkard: divorce cases, and the awful crimes committed by culprits under the influence of drink. were the stock arguments of the temperance advocates and while their audiences would weep like children the crimes went on increasing each year by year. Only since funds have been secured to carry on the fight has the cause made it's greatest sue cess. More business is the cry of the hour All eyes are turned on the saloon which is the proven foe of busi ness progress. Labor and capital are uniting to kill the saloon.
 The circular says: Such laws (pro- hibitory) everywhere only encourage secret and excessive drinking, and all ways an unwarranted interference of personal liberty, and promote the secret sale as against the regulated and licensed traffic. What right has your neighbor to tell you what you should eat and drink?"
 It is the secret sale that makes more laws necessary. Why not fine fault with the law breaker instead of the law maker, and those who are trying to accomplish something for humanity?
 The circular says: "Whiskey, al though stronger in itself than wine or beer, is always taken in much smaller quantities, so that the greater quanti- ty of the one offsets the greater strength of the other. The temper ate use of either is not injurious, and is no more an economic waste than the use of candy, chewing gum or ice cream sodas."
 If We had the temperate use of liquor there would not be this wids- spread agitation against incorporate use. Why don't the men who have their all invested in the liquor busi- ness take a hand in the battle of re- forming the business instead of turn ing the work over to their customers.
 The circular says: Half billion dollars are invested in the liquor. brewing and allied industries. the de struction of which without compensa. ton, would mean financial panic"
 With the fortunes that have been made from the liquor business and the homes that have been destroyed to make those fortunes possible. would you now ask the children or ruined homes and ruined men who gave their all. to compensate the men who have profited by this business these many years?
 The circular says; Millions Of men who would lose employment thereby, would crowd labor in other lines Of industry and revolutionize the wage market"
 More men are kept from work by liquor traffic and more men lose their jobs every year because of the liquor