Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-02
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Sunday Morning, January 2, 1916.
ARlzoNA,s YEAR OF PROHIBITION


 Arizona appears in the list of dry states to which newspapers throughout the land calling attention be- cause of the growth of the nationwide movement to close saloons destroy Iegalized TRAFFIC in liquor The New Year happily finds additional states em blazoned on the roster.
 Thoughtless men and women in this State especially zealots who in their faith shout satisfied just be cause the name Arizona appears the honor scroll are contributing deception which is calculated to work material injury the which they espoused Would it not be and honorable to proclaim to the world that Arizona is not recogn tion for services to humanity which she has not per formed?
 Arizona is dry state only. Arizona s in fact, an incorporate state, Enough of hypocracy!
 The opportunity to enroll truthfuly the unchal- lenged roster of deserved slipping out of the hands of those lpon whom the responsibility rests
 Arizona is contributing false pretenses when she permits her name to be heralded broadcast as being among the standardbearers of temperance. Prohibition in Arizona has not prohibited Those persons err we believe who harmful the publication of in formation calling attention conditions which actually exist Tie Review has intention of decrying the la bors of temperance workers according to lights we enlisted equvocaly in the of keeping saloons closed and in advocating and all meas ures which will promote real temperance
 The Review acclams the progress made during the past year as result of the abolition saloon in Ar- The benefits great but with the benefits has been permitted introduction of terrible evil which believe wholly unnecessary should be per. mitted to longer the accredited posi- ton of Arizona as qualified member of that growing
 
 have been raised
 Only the incomplete statistics at hand of year under socalled prohibition in Arizona Bu taking several of the important communities ex amples it would that the record is damnable. The Douglas dispatch publishes this in its yesterdays issue The following from the city court docket offered for perusal of the public without, comment
 Number of arrests December, 1914. 59; fol drunkenness, IS; fines collected, s4S.
 Number of arrests December, 1915. 65; for drunkenness, SEQ; fines collected, s111.
 This does include any military prisoners, who handled by the provost guard and military court" Under the heading "Prohibition Law Appears Farcca Unusual Number Intoxicated Arrested" the Record chronicles the wretched conditions pre- vaing in Globe and Miami The Review believes that all the publicity necessary to conditions in the Warren District contained in of December 25 in which related the large number of and brief description of disordery here just before Christmas. The Prescott JournaMner comments follows: No oneis opposed the present idotic prohibition law than way to get rid of such law is strictly obsrve it and strictly enforce it, if it is legal abortion" Phoenix and Tucson newspapers have the complaint report in their communication Arizona prohibition" does pro hibit
 We thus find that evil conditions rife throughout the stae No locality has enjoyed such should from the closing of saloons localities unable .o enforcement on account of iniquities of present prohibition" amendment. With the exception of Idaho Arizona the only the states the which ignores personal erty. And Idaho permits the liquors medicinal and saeramental purposes Arizona class by herself a victim of legislative stupidity
 proudly among those which banshed the sa looms and the evils attending legazed TRAFFIC in li- quor Actually. Arizona has proved during her year prohibition" that she is false herself to the which she elected sponsor utterly unworthy of place the roster of those states known to tie world shining examples the temperance movement