Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-10-23

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 il reminds one of inc story of me l Oregon school master who WIS oelng
 examined as 10 his qualifications 70
 teach a pubic school. This question
 was asked him: Whaf is the shape
 oftbe earth?' He replied some
 thinks it's round and some thinks l it's square. but l teaches itround or
 square. just as the parent prefers.
 CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE AND SUPER
 ryTENDEyT or rCHLIc INsTEUc-
 TION.
 We of Arizona, having no vote Tor , Presidential candldates. are perhaps
 more interested ID those matters which are more personal to ourselves. We i have candidates for Territorial Deie-
 oates awaiting the choice Ol the peo-
 nle It is a bad habit to speak oi men
 nersonally unless yuu know them thoroughly, either hy their p'oiie
 record or otheTWi-e. l have lhe honor of only very slight personal
 acduaintance with ihe Democratic
 nominee for Delegate tO Congress and
 have never had the pleasure ot meei-
 inc the Democratic candidate for Su-
 neTintendent of Public Instruction. i know little of their records and
 therefore shall not speak or them. But the Republican candidates Tor these positions l know well. l have
 known the Republican candidate Tor | Congressional Delegate for long
 while, and to know him is to like hlm' MADISON W. STEWART
 Is q business man by vocation, silent,
 thoughtful and contemplatiye. He IS not a speaker, but a worker, an apt and living illustration of that old adagc that speech IS silver, but
 silence is golden" He has had a large experience in the affairs of men, has
 been a member of the Legislature of two Territories and the speaker Of the | Assembly of each. He is 8 fine par Iiamentarian and as good q presiding ! officer as there is in the Territory. | Above all things he is gentleman,
 a friend of the miner and an owner of
 large mining interests. He is pop uIaT wherever he Is known, and his ! popularity is only equalled by his personal influence He is q man Of spotless reputation, great energy and | personal integrity He IS trcmen- | dous worker, and n better selection for Delegate to Con -r.s7 could have | bean made.
 Associated with Alr stewart on the ticket as candidate for SJpcrinieud-
 ent of Public Instruction is
 NH. SHERMAN,
 ! Who belongs to a family ot school teachers, and who k by intuition an instructor. He is 8 polished. schol- arly man. Not perhaps man Oi affairs, and certainly not politician,
 but man who Is an enthusiastic ed- ucator, possessed of good judgment and sound common sense. supple mented by fine education. He is the very man of all men in ihe Territory for Superintendent Of Public IusiruC- ton. These are the candidates whom the Republicans throughout the diff erent counties of the Territory are asked to support, and l tell you, iei- low-citizens, they are worthy of the vote of any man.
 BCLLOS IAN.
 Aside from these candidate we have a county hcket and have put forth a platform in harmony with the declar- ations of the National Republican party. One plank iu that platform IS the cause of some discussion among the voters of the county, aUd that IS the resolution with reference to the tax on bullion. Minine is n old in- dustry upon the face Of the earth. There is none older except agriculture. The farmer was first, Gnd |" bstOre the heaving bellows had urged the fur mace, before the hammer had struck upon an anvil, before the cleaning water had flashed from an oar, before tide had hung up its scales OF gauged !. its measure, the culture of the soil !. began. But old as mining is-sec- ] Ond 10 agricultuTe-noWhere on the ! lace of the earth, SO far as 1 Can learn l except iii the State of Nevada, have l the net profits of mine been subject 1 10 q heavy tax like the one now Im- ! posed by the laws of Arizona, and in 1 Nevada the tax was one quarter Of l one per cent. instead of two per cent. ] In fact, did you eve: hear Of tax l upon the net proceeds of an iron mine in Missouri, or coal mine, or ] an oll we'll in Pennsylvania, or @ lead ! mine in Illinois or Wisconsin, or ! copper mine at Lake Superior? Did ! you ever hear of a farmer paying a l tax upon the net proceeds of the eggs 1 laid by his hens, or upon the butter ! made from his cows SuppOsing a ] wagon manufactory should be cstab- l lished in this town today you would ! levy q tax upon the real estate, the | manufaCtorY, the machinery used ln l the building of the wagons, the trucks | and animals used in thc trahspoTta- ! tiOn of material; but would you levy ! tax of two, four, six or ten dollars ! upon every wagon sold tO the farmers ! along the san Pejro2 IL is clear that | this kind of tax, then, l.
 IN THE NATURE OF AN INCOME TAN, ! And should only be resorted 10 for 1, good reasons, Mines, however. are ! Of uncertain and variable value and l therefore difficult of taxation. The ! truth is, there seems to be no just way ! ot taxing a mine unless you tax the [ net proceeds of the bullion product | dt itdSt lulS sGtllo lO bt lllC bt1t " tf ] We should not forget while taxing the | mining product that not one mine in ! ten thousand can have net product ] to be taxed without the expenditure ] of from S75,00O 10 $300,009 iq machin- ! cry and improvements. These i'm | provemeuts and machinery are all l taxed. Every paying mine adds this | much to the assessment roll of the | county. You can tax the mill hoist ] ing-works, all the buildings, the ! machinery, the wagons and mules ! used in transportation of ore, wood, ! etc., etc. Most paying mines are in- ! corporated and the stock is taxable ! If the stock of mine pays a tax, and ]. the net proceeds pay tax. that 1 is double taxation, and is unfair ! Some of the advocates oi this tax. as l, 1t stands upon the statute book, say . that everything grown in the country . or manufactured here is used here,