Arizona republican., 1916-09-06
PHOENIX HEARS
 TUCSON TALENT
At Closing Meeting of Sun day School Association, Strong Speeches In Favor of the Pending Prohibit tion Amendment

| Song, was enjoyed.
 l There were at least a thousand jn terested listeners, and the stadium
 was taxed to it's utmost capacity. l 'irady Gammage, general secretary
 Of the Temperance Federation of Ari-
 zona. was the first speaker on the program, ne said in part, When VIC passed the amendment for prohibition
 two wears ago, we intended that it's provision was for the excluding Of i liquor from this state. That's what
 we voted for and that's what we
 thought We had. We knew what We
 wanted. and went to the polls and voted for it. and were congratulating ourselves that our right of franchise had brought us victory. which was
 the fact. and did obtain for about one year.
 Daring the first year of prohibi-
 ton IF Arizona, the people coul6 hardly believe that the good times
 thinking that they were living in
 some Elsyian Age of the past. wher
 srch thing as a bootlegger was as
 much curiosity as chicken with ! teeth. This condition was remarked
 by all classes of people in our state
 Business men all over the state could | hardly realize that the people who had been slow in paying their bills
 were the same ones who were now giving larger orders and paying cash | for tie same. Every one in the state
 seemed to rejoice but the saloon men and the bartender And in Tucson, I
 can name you several saloon men who said they were glad it had como
 as it did. Does that look as though
 our state was going to the dogs as
 Bernard of Tucson said it was?
 These good times obtained until
 about the first of this year, when the supreme court of Arizona rendered decision that liquor could be intro duced into the state for personal
 use" This decision was a blow to
 the people of this state from which they have not yet recovered. and
 from which they will not recover until on the seventh of November
 when they will go to the polls an(
 bury the liquor traffic like the oli
 woman said she would bury the devil
 and that is. with his face down. sc
 that if he began to scratch. the more
 he scratched tSe deeper he would
 get Personal use acts unequally.
 The man who brings a suit case
 full of booze into town from Fl Paso
 and is put in jail is not any worst than the Fellow with little mors money. ard little more respect
 ability. who brings in trunk full and gets off because he says he cal afford that much for his persona. use. Was any booze or beer ever put
 into the world for any other thar
 personal use? The fellow that tell: , us that his personal liberty is assailec
 should remember that this country
 does not know personal liberty. thia
 is a country of civil liberty and .
 man has no more right to do things
 that interfere with another mans
 rights, than he has to go into his
 home and take possession of all there
 in. My personal liberty ends jus
 where your nose begins. There is
 not a law on our statute books thai
 does not interfere with some ones
 personal liberty. in fact you will find
 that there will be times when you
 will be prohibited from being at thf
 bedside of your loved ones. but this law looks 70 the welfare of humanity and not to your personal view in the matter.
 "The prohibition amendment as now framed. WEI absolutely meet the Webb Kenyon law. The amendment was framed by several of the best r lawyers in Arizona. who are positive ' that there will be no chance tc puncture it with another decision. as the present law has heen treated. 7 When they gay that prohibition does not prohibit, who is to blame Is 1t the officers of the law, or is Il I the petty criminal and cheap rascal P better known as the bootlegger, who 9 plys his nefarious trade usually 1T r the hack alley. or boot-black stand. ol S like in Tucson, more unseemly places
 Because the law prohibiting mur' der and stealing and gambling 1! aI a hi0it. shall we say to repeal the law and let us murder and steal ant l gamble for our own personal use | There is not a sane person in thl | state who would listen to such m | of reasoning, then why is the pro Il hibition law not enforced the same a Il all other laws are? The cities H Phoenix, Tucson. Prescott and Flag H staff, were never in better flnancla III condition than now. The pusines HI r1en of Phoenix know that they ar III pcelling more of their commodity tha H theN' diG two years ago, and say SC III Tn Tucson. the building record 10 III July and August shows up greate HI than for any corresponding period 1 III it's history At Prescott, there hay HI been more people there to spend thel II vacation this summer than in an H previous year. Flagstaff says tn III same. lIl1t tOelf Suliiliiei oc"Soi ii. II passed with more people enjoying th H advantages offered there than at an II previous time And the thing tha must not be forgotten is, that theS III cities have not had this great increas III in their prosperity because they coul III hold out to the tourist that the N could get aeer and booze there. N These places have not had to at II vertise that their climate was d' II pendent on the amount of rum II beer contained in town. Did you II to either place for the booze vt III could get there? No you didn't. al III no one else did. Therefore, Arizor Ii ;s still good. clean place to sper III your vacation |lf The local option amendment whit III will be on the ballot for your consl' II eration. is one of the most delusl |II fakes that was ever placed peio HI the voters of any community IL |ll a work of art, in it's line. About U HI same kind of art as was Steila HI the San Francisco exposition. HI The success of the local optl lIt measure will mean return or | HI open saloon, and to a condition I lll worse than we have ever had in Al HI zona. If you will say that you wa |Il beer and whiskey aristocracy HI take the place of a decent communl HI to raise yonr children in. and T HI spectablc place to entertain yo HI friends when they come here to HI the great benefit of the best clima HI urder the sur, just you vote Tor | III local option measure and you'll wa III up some fine morning to find HI saloon. full-grown, next door to v HI My last appeal to yoU is to De su