Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-28
OFFICIAL YAGABONpAGE.
The InequitIes of the Present Political System. WhIskey. likeness and
 Unjust Legislation.

tion is from the pen of Dr. Paul Greg ory. of Hermosillo. written under date of January Sth:
 There IS nothing here @ yet to Te- fresh your msny resders with, ID vay oi lOod news. These cold few day, the cry of the poor comes up to us continually. We try to relieve them ss beet Ts can snd are led 10 enquire into some of the many causes of oil tbis poverty end sui tering which We hear snd zee so much of. Idleness and drink go hand in hand, both sre fruitful sources oi poverty, daarsdaii0n and disease. Tho condi- liens here are such that often those wh. would gladly toll for subsistence caunet get work. Many for want of proper suste3snce became diseased and thus struggle On until desth brings them release.
 Here. as 10 our o-n m1ch beloved United States of America, the drinking classes are . constant drain upon so- cissy. Troy give nothing HS su equivh- lent for ihcir support, but except o brood of meek and viiistef chIldreu, who in tur1 furnish IT their places numerous progeny. The tTaOsmissiou Os appehio-. pa.si"As aEd evil tender cies Teca!y, To cbsok frum guy source. On the contrary ibe meet degredcd gc- produce ;hair kind.
 These tb!ogs lesd us io Ftasa ihB. the wholesale trafiic in spiritons hquots goes oD vith ever increasing activity. The prIsons are filled with criminals ss a legitimate result. Every day we HJe sickened with the tales oi crime and horror irota diI rent parts O. tbe land, e5ery day heart broken wives end hun gry children appesi Co cur syDpathies and receive 8id, whose sBfer!ngs have come G. the rssnit Os ihe dc 1.ute habits of some husband, son Cf fs'her. All such children grown up with tIs hunger for stimulents pervading sn their being. And each generation furnishes an in- creHse in the number of those Sho by inheTi.aDce are vesk morally, mentally ard physically, and vhO thus fail back a dead weights upon society.
 Aud the sBme here, Bs n our own great nation. we have still another class o. non producers almost as fatal to pros pe.i'y Rs are the criminals. These are tLs public officials for whom places are made as Tecompense for politiosl fs- vo-a, or whose office society has out CroWp. or the duties of which are per formed by some deputy who does the work while the former gets She pay. The salaries of all our offices are entirely out of proportion either to the work they perform or Co ths salaries paid men whose ability, culture and endurance must be of the highest character in or- der to illfii the duties Of their posi- tiOns. Men who receive large sums of money annually from the public funds, and whose services are nOt needed for ,be safety and gsOd order of society, ought to be chased among the other non-prOducers, end esteemed ss yam pires who are sucking the life blood of our nations siTeIC'b. The Regi trGr of the City of New York received an ir- come annually of Sl00,0O0; and other officers n ike manner have incomes or: of all proportion to the!r duties. It matters little whether these sums come from the public funds or from the iu- dividUBls of 5Oc.ety-ihe people ore tax ed all the same, either directly, to meet the demBDd, sBd the poor, haTdworkIng man ca middle classes gre tue ones on whom the burden Ot this taxation falls.
 i1 raising money for public purposes by assessment this burden on the labor ing ciasses IS mo heavy. They are tax rd to support those vbo do DO: york urtil their own lot becomes unendurBble, and they Gre often compelled to succunb .o 70 the pTeEsure and sink even to the ranks of the pauper. If aoyone wishes to ssiisfy hims 1T of the truth Of what I say, Irefer them to two women living m tae ely of Nsw York, ghO have more personal ts1s' than sll The incorporated cnrnpanIes whose capital stock was over slSO O00OOO l you'd say here that If suy advocate of woman Futlrags wants more facts 70 sustain their arguments, les them loCk over She tax rolls of the city of New York, pr aLy other city or town iD She United States, especially in New York, and they will fud proof ID too great abundance.
 in the city of Rochester ID the year 1872, with population O, 10000 with with ts Dlhli us of dollars n trade scd msDuisctUr-, and incorporated cOmpaI- ie5 liable to assessment fos personal property together with the great wesitr that has accumulated n the hands ot
 5dividusls for more than half century. lts InnsbitHn;s were not assessed hall so much. 0r ths sum did not smouBt to as much by half, a- the assessment gs ai' st one widow women iu the toSD O' Batavia, Genes-ee county, because tne property Was ot assessed CT tecGUse they we're nnf made 10 psv
 In New York nos one hall, | will pat u still finer. not one hf,h CT more than one fifth of the prsperty in the ciiy gas tBXed, while those ladies mentioned, rsre compelled to pay Co the lat far thing. fl ell who are able to work were given employment, and compelled to snrD thaIE own liv.nR, sId he enormous sums pald to public officials were cut down to what i, absolutely earned snd required for the pubiic gUod, the great and unjust takes gouid DO! hsve to be lifted by women who have no vote uor ssy in tbe matter but simply 10 submi: tO all tEAt is put upon :hen. Then poor people might hope somedsyto OTn d home their families to be comfortably clothed and fed. The inequalities of cur great rich government, the heavy h. justice prscliceG under Its lays, puts the oppression of which tEe fathers Uf l776 o0DPlaineG of the mother county, SO fur 10 the back ground. tbas the oppression coz not be seen ID comparison then and now.
 10 wonder that tte tide of poverty sweeps down n is tracks some many deserving good people. Those who de- serve the most mske the least outcEy. They starve and die, whie the drunken, idle crowd are sheltered and fed from She pubic stCre-h0use. having shown tbat it is not lhe ve8lih oi the country which takes care of it's wards, but the bsrd-E orkinF, struggling middle class; sGC We ce also Bee bow ths numbers ot the drunken, idle and vicious are in cress 9R year by year, and 1t is s ques- ton which every phIlan;hrOpist would do well to study-this question as to bow .Ong the Bhlo-b bodied and industrious can hold out against the demands of the great army of political and corporate vampires. The poor women have policy which 1 hope they may carry into effect, portion of which policy will be She industrial and moral tTair ag in our public schools of ali ohildren-G plan by which every child should come up witb educated eyes and fingers as well as brsirs, where every child should be kr- IA c H.. -F LI