Arizona republican., 1916-10-20
LIQUOR INTERESTS
 ACTIVE GAMMACE
BY F. A. COFFIN

The liquor interests are planning a surprise for the temperance forces and it will pay every temperance advocate Co awaken Go the situation, according to Grady Gammage, general secretary of the Arizona Dry Federation, who spoke last night before a large crowd at the Sevenih-day Adventist camp meeting at Sixth avenue and Washington street
 The liquor forces are lying low now" said Alr. Gammage. but they intend at the last moment to make a strenuous attempt to deceive the voters. They are planning to issue cards containing the amendments as they will appear on the ballot, counterfeiting the Dry Fed eration cards.
 Be careful about voting. and be sure Co place your x at No. l04 Yes in order to vote for prohibition. Also place an x at No 109, No in order to vote against local option. It is just as important to vote against the local op- tion amendment as to vote in favor of prohibition. because every time you fail Co vote against local option, you are in fact voting in favor of it.
 Liquor men say prohibition doesn't prohibit but in Phoenix during the last wet year there were 4750 arrests of all kinds. The first dry year there were only TOO arrests for all crimes, q re- duction of 5000. The last wet year there were 2600 arrests for drunken ness alone in Phoenix. but only PA ar rests for drunkenness the first dry year. Taking the state as a whole, drunkenness was reduced 90 per cent the first year after prohibition came here.
 Counties that have prosecuted the blind pigs have paid all expenses for N Las ury as result of the fines imposed. Ina Cochise county they spent S22O0 in gathering evidence against bootleggers and collected over S5000 in fines from them. In Gila county they had $500 surplus in their treasury at one time. some other counties have shown about Inc same results.
 w hat has moved the liquor interests to cry cut for the sanctity of the home when there is not force under the Stars and Stripes that has disturbed fhc sanctity of the home more than the liquor traffic This proposed amendment says nothing about search and seizure. There is a law upon ouI statute books prohibiting the posses sion of stolen property or opium. Raid lng of homes Is as likely to occur under those statutes as under this one.
 "l met a man who told me sac story about the death of baby be. cause they could not get liquor for it ! told him he should remember the thousands of babies who are doomed before they ever reach the world, no because they have touched ,iqucr bu because somebody else has. Investi gation by a noted physician of 1000 school children showed that 90 per cen of the weak minded ones were childrei of drinking parents. Yet some vii complain that prohibition invades thei personal rights
 siast year illicit liquor was sold il more blind pigs in Los Angeles than il Arizona. Saloons are the breeding places of blind pigs When they hav' Co pay a heavy license, the saloons arr known to have an organized system o buotleggers to sell liquor illegally. t' help pay the license of the legalize place.
 We are informed by the liquor out fit before we pass the prohibition iay that they intend to violate it. We ar face to face with a set of defiant erin incls. The liquor people are the onl. ones in America who dare to defy tn law before it is passed. Do we intpn'