Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-30
WANTS UNITY IN THE COUNTY, BUT MUST BE
 TIE DOUGLAS WAY
Dispatch Wants Warren Dis trict 10 Stand by Them When They Have Always Stabbed the District in the Back on Every Occasion.

The Douglas Dispatch, in an edt torIal in it's issue of Friday morning, April 26th, attempts to criticize the Rev.ew, because II has taken excep- tion to the stopping of the working of Doctleggers on the county roads by the
 Douglas Welfare League or the Purity
 Squad, as it has been named by the
 balance oi the county as well as by
 a number of the citizens of the Shelter
 City The editorial is headed, "A Lit tie Unity in Cochise, Please" It then
 goes on and states that the Review
 mas leaned away from the facts in re-
 citing m items of news that have ap- peaIed nom time to time in regard
 10 the bootleggers being worked on
 the road, and then reprints an article
 from the Review of last Wednesday in
 which the Review stated that on ac-
 count of the greed of Douglas that the
 work on the paved road between there
 and here was liable to be held up by
 others on account of the actions of the
 Douglas Purity Squads stand. It then
 proceeded to roast the Review staff
 and urges that they read up. and that
 tho S500,0O0 had to be spent on the
 various roads of the county. If the
 editor or the Dispatch had not been
 asleep for the past few months he
 would have read long article in the
 Review of its issue of April 7th, in
 which the terms of the bond issue and
 the work that was called for by the
 bond sale were gone into thoroughly
 and in detail The article was printed
 at that tima because a Douglas paper
 had stated in it's editorial columns that
 there was S500,000 now available for use of the paved road between Doug
 las and Pisbee and that the balance
 of the county roads would t'e fixed
 later" The same article had state ment iron. the members of the County
 Highway Commission stating that the
 S5OO,O00 available was to be distrib- uted throughout the county on the roads as bpdgeted by the commission
 in the call for the bond issue. The language used by them was to the point so as to recall the impression
 that had been made by the Douglas
 paper that all the money was to be spent on that one road.
 Tka Dispatch editorial then says: "Douglas and the Werren District practically compose fOur-fifths of the county. Their interests are identical" When ill the history of Douglas has that community offered in one ins- tance to help the Warren District? h. stead they have always tried to hand it to the Warren District. When the Borderland route was first opened, the Douglas chamber of commerce went on record against Bisbee being on the route and advised all tourists going through to turn off below Lowell and
 go via Hereford and in fact, had number of signs printed and had them placed along the route giving the di- rections and not even mentioning Bis bee. When the county seat matter came up. Douglas sent s. w. Mccall and Jack Sparks to Phoenix to lobby for the bill and had it passed, so that no town in the Warren District, out side of Bisbee, which was incorporated, could get in on the location of the county seat, and then they had the nerve to ask the Warren District Con- mercial Club to pay half of the ex- penses, but it was not done. Douglas then threw in with the Wilcox citizens and advised them to start county division proposition, SO that the county would be divided, and promised to sup port that measure if they would sup port Douglas in getting the county seat when they knew that the Warren District had no chance to get in on the deaf They fell down on this also.
 A few days ago the Warren District Commercial Club asked the Douglas Welfare League to withdraw their ob- worked on the road. they absolutely refused.
 Now that the rest of the county has taken all interest in the matter and sees that through the action of the Douglas Welfare League. road matters are being held up. they have taken the stand that Douglas will have to fight for what she gets Of course Bisbee and the Warren District suffers, be- cause the paving of the road between here and there is being delayed and the Warren District is made to suffer this loss on account of the action of the Douglas Purity Squad. The quick CT the road is finished to Tombstone, l the Quockar work will be started on other parts of the county and this de- lay on the part of not working the bootleggers is making the balance of the taxpayers in the county sore. be- cause they realize that as soon as the Bisbee- Tombstone State highway IS completed. that much sooner will a force of prisoners and bootleggers be
 put to V ork on other roads. Douglas and it's Welfare League are delaying this work. There are now in the coun-
 ty jail some ten or fifteen men that could be Tut to work but for the stand
 of the Purity Squad.
 The Dispatch truthfully says, Re flection will make it clear that the completion of this paved road will be a powerful influence in determining
 the decision of the Bankhead pathflnd- CTS. sto whether that road shall traverse the Borderland route through
 Douglas and Bisbee." How much
 more so. that the cOmp'1tion of the road to Tombstone. which has already
 been started and which can be finished within a few months. if sufficient men are kep; at work? The county will thon have that nuch more tO show