The Arizona champion., 1890-10-25
Total reduction
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Not content with this sweeping and indefensi5le outrage upon the taxpayers # Yuvapai county, to whom you now have the assurance to look for assist ance to a position where their interests may again be jeopardized by your favoritism to wealthy corpora tions; your board met again in August 1889, md by your vote, and with yNur con- sent and approval, holding, as you did, in trust, the interests of the people of Tavapai county, you reduced the ass essment of the A. E p. railroad from Sl, l,389,79403 to S1, ITO, 484. a differ 3nce of Sl9,2l005, aggregate reduo- sion of S470,250.S0 It is but fair for me to state that the Board of Equali- zation for 1888, according to the con solidated statement of their proceed ings on file in the office of the Board If Supervisors, claim to have stricken S5l, 537 from the assessment of the Central Arizona Railroad, but a singu- lar fact in this connectioh is, that the seperate returns, which the law requir- es shall be made of railroads, cannot be found. However. will admit, for the sake of argument, that the above reduction was actually made by the Board. The records still show that through your actions the railroads of this county were favored to the extent yf S4lS,693.80--a reduction which am mJunts to nearly one-tenth of the en- tire assessment of t,iis county.
 Truly, your honorable boad scorned to trihe with matters of such trivial consideration as the interests of thc people you were supposed to represent. You threw away. the thousands froil the hirth-right of the people with the prodigate recklessness of a reprobate scion of royalty, you placed at the mercy of corporation cOrmcrants tie ,acred trusts with which you were in, e.ted. Yet, in the face of these facts--in the sober contemplatton of the enormous sums you voted to be added to the laboring classes with the consciousness that everyone whose sui fra5e you now solicit may read; for himself the truth of. ghese charges 9n the public record, you cause the servile tool who writes for you to proclaim that the facts are not what they appear on the record, but as they issue from your mouth.
 Your letter erroneou' y states that there had been no valuation fixed upon these roads until the June meeting oi your board, when they were assessed tt Sl,8l2,97405. Perhaps you will have the profound man of learning, who writes for you, explain for you how he arrived at such conclus; on, IS by no combination of figures as they appear on the records, can this iresuit be obtained. For your own informa tion, 1 will state that the valuation you really did place on the roads ir June 1889, was $I,738,824.05, wAicl sum you reduced to Sl, ,5I9, ,6l4 at you, August meeting, as Nave before stat ed. It was hardly to be wondered at however, that you are perplsxed and oewiIdeled in contemplation of such 8 record.
 Does the fact that the Democratic Board of Supervisors of this county ac cepted d comp omise of the railroad taxes make your actions in first reduc ing them any the less cuipablel Nc On the contrary your responsibility was thereGy increased, as it Was 1T view of your action that the county board, took example. You paved. the way for them. Since when, Mir. Low ry, have you accepted the pernicious doctrine that two wrongs make one