Tombstone daily epitaph., 1889-11-09
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letter at Benson:
 Your correspondent, in his last com
 munication to you, did not misappre-
 hend the popular temper of the peo-
 pie of Cochise county in regard to
 their taxes. His first cry of distress
 has created sensation, and is being
 largely discussed everywhere. The
 situation is critical and the people are
 not mincing their words in criticising l our county financiers who themselves
 have little or no taxes tO pay. The Star
 Is to be congratulated on being the 1 vehicle of expression oi the common : feeling of an outraged community As
 this Territory has advanced, step by step, to a higher plane of civilization the Star has always been found fight ing wrong in every form. and keeping | jealous eve on the actions of its public servants Ii is it therefore that every attention should Joe called through its columns to the extrayag- ance aud incapacity oi the Board of Supervisors of CoChise County. Nox has no grievance with ihis Board, save public one. In his individual deal ings with is members he has always been most kindly treated The pres ent assessment Of his property is just one. and was made with his ap- provsl and that of his business asso- ciates. For six years. during which period he has been doing business in the county, he has paid his taxes with ont complaint. In private life he en- tertains towards the supervisors noth- ing but friendly feelings. But friend ship should not he allowed to smother criticism of their official acts, so long d. they bear the stamp of incapacity and extravaganza. What higher privilege does the American citizen possess than the right to criticise ;he conduct oi those whom he elects to office Nor Is the writer. as the Prospector states. grant owner. nor has he the least expectation of being one. II he was So unlucky as to own a grant il is dii ficult to see why, for this reason, i'm proper motives should he attributed to him for daring to criticise our lords and masters, the Board of Supervisors Vox might, with equal justice, attribute the silence of the Tombstone press, on the subject of the squandering of the peoples money, to the fact that they are present and prospective benef. charles in the disbursement of county funds; that severe criticism of the public acts of those who create no trihing part of their present or pros pective incomes might be the saving of of the limb of the tree they are sitting upon, the suppression of ex trsvagance in profitable contracts for county printing, the killing of the goose that lays the golden egg, and thus launch accusation and cast re- flection without grounds and without end. Vox has, however, too high an estimate of the purpose and characte- of the Editors of the Prospector and EPrTAPH to do them such rank in justice. He rather seeks their assist ance in protecting our grievously op- pressed people from further extravag- ance on the part Of the public trustees of their hard earned money. For as the Star so aptly says Now is the season to investigate as to where the peoples money Is going" For in stance, we all vant to know from what code of either in morality and in equity as well as by what law the Board of Supervisors have derived the right tn make lately an appropriation to build a fence to enclose private graveyard here at Benson. Vox has asked many friends and has not seen the man yet who wants 10 be buried in this Benson graveyard. Could there be a more shameless piece of folly than this in squandering the money of the poor tax ridden people of Co chisef This is also but one single
 straw of the extravaganza which shows
 the way the wind is blowing that is
 accumulating an annual tax of four dollars and one quarter of a cent on
 every hundred dollars worth of prop erty in this county. A tax that means ' in the end confiscation and utter ruin,