Arizona silver belt., 1883-01-20
Saturday, January 20, 1888.
Governor Tritle's Message.

The generaly favorable criticisms which have greeted the first message to an Arizona legislature of our new Governor, are fairly we'll deserved. It is wide in it's scope, evinces thought fulness and care in its preparation, and an intimate knowledge of the wants of the Territory. If it were not for the attempt, very thinly disguised, at self-laudation which it contains, some few premature suggestions, and a use of the BELr's thunder, this paper would be unqualified in its praise of ''the. message"
 The BELT is now and always has been conservative, and in no other di- rection 30 much as in its policy con- corning legislation which would in- crease the burdens of the people. In somo of the counties of this Territory the tax levy has increased fifty per cent, and any recommendation of the !. .ss SdTdss( |l,s t only s De Excused on the score of the most urgent public necessity. The last legislature, with all its shortcomings, refused to pass bills recommended by Fremont, which involved the expenditure of nearly $250, 900, and the present legislature would do well to pattern after them in that respect. The BELT is opposed to the adoption of any extraordinary means to cause rush of immigrants to the Territory. The growth is healthy, now; rush would give us idle men who would return to their homes earnest breaches of gospel of dispar- agement. The BELT is opposed to any alteration in the judicial system of the country that involves multiplication of offices and salaries; the BELT is op- posed to any subsidies for the enlarge ment of the Yuma prison, unless it can be proven that it is the least ex- pensive policy to pursue; the BELT is opposed to the voting of $11,0O0 to pay the expenses of the fifty men who marched into Mexico and then marched back again, without doing anything more valiant than losing their arms.
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 The Governors recommendation about artesian wells is good. The BELT advocated it long before Senator Jones turned this Territory into a grazing ground for Nevada politicians. The idea of ever getting an appropri- ation from the general government, through legislative memorializing, for this or any other purposes, argues -verdancy on the part of Governor Tritle. The government needs all its money to spend on skeleton navy, and dig mud out of Jersey sloughs.
 The "message" has nineteen lines devoted to mining, and two hundred and twenty to what its author did in tanning the Indians and cowboys. Nothing is said about the re-imposi- tion of the bullion tax.
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 The BELT heartily endorses the Gov ernor when he recommends that Prof. Church should be paid back the mon- ey he expended in connection with our mineral exhibit at Denver; the con- servation of our timber lands, which are far more extensive than he has any idea of seemingly; careful legisla- tion in regard to the water in our riv- CTS; the passage of a census law which would not give county having fifteen hundred voters, twelve representa- tives, while another with over eight hundred names on its register gets only one and fraction, and the stock ing of our rivers with food fish; but it does not endorse his recommendation to provide armories, create an inspec- tor of arms, an Attornsy-General or an Adjutant-General.