Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-14
A TAXPAYER
Has Word to Say About the Action of
 the City Council.

the City Council.
 EDITOR CITIZEN: Referring Co leader in the CITIZEN of the 9th instant discussing the prcpo- q action of the city council, and apo.o-isiug or rather defending their action n pledsing the city indifritely.
 desire to supplement the article referred to by few f.c;s that may have escaped the writers notice in the heat of incubation.
 lst.-Ihe city council has not con- fined itself to the issue of one note for 5000; on the contrary, notes have been issued during the last IS months Co jhe extent of some S21,OOO, ard the game has evidently no limits.
 2ad.-Tnese notes az rls iav,s. ably anticipations O. the current years in- come, the facts being that thanks to the newly invented and facile method of raising he wind, the expenses of 1885 were made to exceed the revenue by about SS9O0, aud @ f4;r calculation of this years receipts anG disbursements will show a dIfficiency Of some 5000.
 3rd.-The facile tinanciers vino operate with the city funds will doubt lesSly soon OrgaulZe their efforts in the direction Ol another authorization from Prescott to issue some more bonds to cover the new floating indchteness, and the thing will go on until some one that has something tO lose, takes hold of the financial problem and cut the municipal coat according tO the municipal cloth.
 4th. There ls nothing iu the charter authorizing the council tO create a float ing debt, on the contrary every thing therein especially prohibits this, and the grand jury not having the liberty of action or the protundity of wisdom ne- cessarIly pertaining to outsiders, have given the people who pay the pIper a chance t0 learn how the piper plays.
 9th. According to the sense tor non sense of the council as exhibited at their meeting of yesterday they are seri- Ously inclined tO play the devil in the hope of dlscOuraging the lrdnd Jury from further "persecuti m ol eminently respectable and intelligent gentlemen though perhaps funny tinalciers and peculiarly constructed patriots and pub lie servants.
 9th. SOlon having made laws for his country, extracted from the people a VOW that they would not repeal or violate | them until his return. and with this un- derstanding he sailed away for an un- limited period, distributing wisdom pro nIscOusly over the earth. So Mir. Hugh Farley has probably endeav- Ored tO initiate SOlOn in one respect, but 1t is to be regretted that he was not bound up with the rest of the city char ter in order to furnish it's readers with ! the explanation SO necessary t0 it's com prehension.
 7th.-Of course. the average taxpayer would be delighted tO learn that the city council can pledge the city's credit a; its Ovn sweet will and pleasure, and the honor ot eventually becoming the best taxed and most bankrupt c,ty in the Territory might mitigate the iuCCnveui- ! cncs Of tying up your pants with @ string in nr3a- C. s,sPvi. DtaS, uuttuus i,,l ,iIc faculty" together wiyh the ether llttie incidental evils.
 In conclusion. I earnestly recommend some people to 'go to the ant and learn from her ways to be wise"
 TAXPAYER.
 Taxpayer IS little previous in mak- ing the statement that the CITIZEN k in favor of pledging the city's credit indei- 1 initely. The facts do not justify any such statement, but as It answers the purpose of Taxpayer III order to get in his work, We allow the statement tO go without further comment at this time. | ED