Tombstone epitaph., 1917-06-24
BOOTLEGGERS' SENTENCES

The recommendation of Governor Campbell that the board of pardons and paroles issue no more reeonenda os for the relief of persons convicted of booteggng will be given general approval Comparatively few of the booeggcIS who have had influential friends have served the for which they have been sentenced and in many the fines assessed against them have gone by the board. IL is remarkable how many of the booteggers have become victims during their incarcera ton of disease which would certainly end in death in their cells unless they released. From which We conclude that the hootcggcrS persons of extremely low vitality. much more than thieves. forgcrs and oh- classes who place themselves behind the bars
 The wholesale turning out of jail of these offenders against the constitution of the tends to make joke the constitution and n override the will of the people decidedly expressed last November IL Is an ell enlargement repeated violations of the prohibition law. IL conveys impression that it is officially hccv ed that bootcggin@ IS rather respectable breach of the law, notwithstanding it S engaged i'll only by men who have occupied the lowest levels of society.
 Bootleggin4 is profitable business if it is not in terruped It is profitable that afford to take chance of interruption and if 1t k made to appear that the interruption will cause him slight or only moderate cost inconvenience. the kind of a who would gage in that of business is encouraged to take the chance.
 A very large number of bOotlcggcrS wGo have been convicted second. third and fourth offenders. They took the chance because it involved only minimum of ultimate risk.
 If now our courts and officials will give to the law the force the intended it to have, bootlcg@ng in Ar will be broken up If such imposed with the certainty that they would he executed in full
 
 pttion of the dose. there would need be rcpttion No bOOtlegger would take the second chance and many persons inclined to bootleggng would take the first 
 The governor points out that this crime is committed with peculiar studied dcberation and that there is tiing, therefore % be sad n t., hootlcggc,S Leaf after his conviction
 All applications for pardon or parole accompan- jed by petitions signed by many respectable lawabid- ing citizens who. think. would thank the governor and the board of pardons and paroles for relieving them of signing petitions in the future. As rlc these sign either l:noE nothing about the boolegger They sign, with inward reluctance because somebody las asked them to do Tl"'c low il, tie scale of hnnaty that he is without indirect connection with the best people in his community He has friend slightly. but only slightly higher than himself That friend has stall higher friend and the line extends to the uppermost level The line frequently and generally runs an upward tOrtuOus along political linc or maybe lodge line. but anyway it upward through the whole structure of society.
 If 1t is made clear that petition in the ease Of bootlegger will be considered respectable citizens will be spared the embarrassment of attaching their names to such pettons.-Phoenix Republican.