Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-19
Reform w anted.
Corr. Tucson Star.)

Corr. Tucson Star.)
 MORALES, April 10th.
 EDITOR STAR Now is the proper | time for the tax payers of Pima coun- ty to take the necessary steps to pre- vent the recurrence of the large and | Wasteful expenditure of the peoples | money as shown in the printed re- port of the county expenses of 1889. l It is very simple matter if attended to, and the existing law enforced-no new ones are necessary.
 First, compel the Harrison Act to be as it was intended,-the governing law of the land-and the answer to those who say how can it be done? the response is "by cutting down the income of the office-holding class the same as the changed condition of affairs has cut down the income of the private individual.
 For instance: in regard to the sheriffs office, what is the object or sense of continuing the custom of allowing him 20 cents per mile at this late day, long after that rate per mile on stage coaches Is abandoned and the railroads have reduced their rates from ten to five cents per mile; surely | five cents per mile should be the maximum rate. Those who think it IS too low are not compelled to be can didates for that office; there will be plenty of good men for the office if its emoluments are just one-fourth what they are to-day-and of just as sober and respectable class of citizens.
 Next take the tax collector: What is the use of paying a man three per cent for collecting, when the most responsible men of the country will collect it for one per cent? and what is the use of paying an asses sor four hundred dollars ($400) per month when any number of compet- ent men can be found to perform the work for one hundred dollars ($100) per month,-and so on through the whole list of the county office hold ing class.
 1 do not advocate repudiation nor anything of the kind, but l do call for
 a halt in tl e expenditure of the peo-
 ple's money.
 I demand that the good people ol
 the county, as against the criminal class, shall rule-and it can be done whenever the people take hold of the , matter in the proper spirit. The law . abiding citizens in Pima County art ] in the minority, but they need to com l bine and demand that the laws bt obeyed-and that public office be { } public trust in fact as well as name. . It is a matter of common notoriety 5 that men are holding office in Pim: 5 County today who in private emplo, !, would command from thirty ($3O) t r fifty [$50) dollars per month and ye ] are receiving from the county abou
 five hundred ($500) dollars per month f Why should Pima or any othe t county in Arizona pay her servants : sum so out of all proportion to tn e value of their services?
 l The Board of Supervisors have it il T their power to largely control thes
 expenditures, and let them do it q
 once for the benefit of the people wh
 elected them to their places-and lik | charity let them commence at home a Reduce their per diem to a prope s figure, cut down their mileage fees ,- and those who have no mileage mak { no charge, and once having the mot T. out of their own eye they will be abl
 to see more clearly the beam (ou |, rageous charges and fees) in the eye ( 8 those whom they largely control. s The refusal of many of the citizen t of the county to pay their taxes wa e and is no mere whim, they have bee r. taxed until they can not any longe a pay, they do not have the money;- h neither is it a ruse to gain time-br ,f determination born of despair, to ?,
 sist grievous wrong.
 t. Instead of the public servant i adopting measures looking toward d retrenchment and promising the pe' 1t pie more economical administratio Y of affairs, what do we see-we see thel t. employing legal counsel to uphol IS them in what the majority believe Is be wrong and by innuendo an IS threat seeking to compel support 'f order that the property holder ma r. not escape the annoyance of an ovt
 assessment and valuation of his pro r. erty the coming year
 ii This is question vital to the il e. terest of every citizen of the count l. and it can not be put off, nor asid r. The expenses must be cut down, u t. county servants must keep house be
 ter or repudiation and all the evils tn
 follow in it's train will be upon us
 We dc. not wish to be classed as g
 alarmist but as one feeling the effec st of wrong, crying out while there 10 yet time for repair, and we would as le for a free expression of the views of g If interested. Xo