Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-19
DIPPED THE LEAKS.
u Method of Reducing Taxa Business View of the Pub
 Ifc Situation

s<s< z-.A Business View of the Pub
 z& lie Situation
 BUEBABA, April II 20
 IG8&eK ENTERPRISE In 1885 and 18e6 <<j1z> neople were so aroused by the gre4t 6s<z<)en imposed upon them by ta ~ 5nghout all the Territories thatzHlzz&< meetings were convened to ree5!1<<e upon some plan to stop the dxffaSagance and lavishness of the public funds, the peoples money. It was then that the public document, No. ]! !59 ts1led the Harrison Act, was adopted by all the Territories in the United States and sent to congress and passed that was thought sufficient to control fHtir affairs. Other bills were adopted Hy the people in the counties and gel t3 the legislatures but like the ol1e sent from Tucson, after it reacIsed Hescott it was so remodeled and a51en1ied; so changed that there were no more than three lines in the whole hiiI when passed as adopted by the ped45te, therefore the lavish ex- pehditure has continued as the fol- lowinkzsfatement will show:
 Ia Iie year 1887 all the bonded in- debfedness of Pima county was re- bonded and the floating indebtedness consisting of warrants were also bond ed, amounting to $250,O00, at 7 per cent, in1erest these bonds are not pay able on Remand but are payable 15 years after date or ill A. D. 1902. Now what good will any bonding act passed b5 congress or by any other legisla latire body do in reducing the rate of intexest2 We cannot call in the bonds 6ntil they are due and warrants that have been issued since the liar rison act was passed have been illegal ly isslle1 Therefore they are null and void and cannot be bonded; if they were ths bonds would be illegal This has been tried by almost every county and has failed in each in stance
 The only way to remedy this em- barfassment is to cut down the ex- penses as individuals, firms, and com panies cut down their expenses when they are becoming involved in debt by expenses exceeding their incomes If all individual, railway company, or ai1y firm, are paying two dollars per day, amounting to ffty-six dollars per month, or three dollars per day amounting to seyenty-eight dollars per mnnthpr nine hundred and thirty-six dollars per year, and their expenses are exceeding their income they cut the saIaries down to $1.80 per day or tc &2 go per day and when their income EwH n6tpay such wages they then re
 Idce them to $1.50 or $250 per day amounting to $39.00 per month ol
 468sper year for the one class, and $68 per fmonth or $828 per year fol the ether class and they reduce dowr fheir forces 10 the lowest minimum by N1ieH She work can be accomplished
 NhsW public affairs are carried or upon the same principle we will hay, nd tfoable with burdensome tax, nol bbankrapting indebtedness.
 M Then the Sherif's salary is reduced to like salary of persons doing equa !, 6ef<iee for individuals or firms; whel rec0rler's, treasurer's and collector I < salaries are reduced to the same tha
 bsskeepers and collectors get for tn,
 eame amount of service from rail
 foadst stores, and other business firms 3and when the assessors, clerks of tn
 hoard of supervisors, district attorneys
 coslnty physicians and such other oi l iieers IS are employed less than thre
 months of the year draw reasonabl
 three months salary and no more, tn
 taxpayers can then pay the man wh : labors more salary and the publi s finance will not bankrupt them an n the country will prosper.
 7 Cow PUNCHER.