Tombstone epitaph., 1890-01-11


 and over the signature of "Quartz- burg" has voided a mess of his bile m the columns of the Florence Enter prise, newspaper published a hun dred miles or more from Tombstone This anonymous writer, whoever he Is, by going so far to publish his lucubra- tions, exhibits q consideration for the feelings of our people that is truly touching; and they are published Tn paper that has limited circulation m this county. True, our taxes are very high and many minimizing people blame our present Board of Supervis- ors for il, but that they are not en- tirelv. to blame is evidenced by the re- port of the last grand jury, which Is generally conceded by our citizens to have been the best that has been sum- moned for years, and who performed their duty without fear or favor. Wben the present Board of Supervisors took office they were confronted by the fact that the finances of the county, in the language of the grand jury. had been administered in an extrava- gant and criminal manner, and the unpleasant task was before them of strengthening matters ont. IL was a question of meeting the just obliga- tions of the county, or of practical repudiation by continuing in the course pursued by their predecessors. They took the more manly and hon. orable course of providing for the payment of our debts, and call has been published for the redemption of. $23, ,000 of our bonded indebtedness, a fact which has not been noted by "Quartzburg" The EPITAPH has also been informed that the negotiation of the $6S,O00 in bonds has about been successfully completed, These two transactions will materially reduce the tax levy this year, aud in writing to outside newspapers aboutthe "Geplor- able condition Of ati;irs in Cochise county" it is tQ be. hoped the core spondents will make note of these facts; and they might also make mem. tion of the little fact tbat our county warrants sell at their face value. For fear some people may think this arti- cle has been inspired by favors re- ceived, or to be received from the Board of Supervisors, in the way of. printing contracts, we will state that the present publishers of the EPITAPH received the extravagant sum of $4S last year for publishing the proceed ings of the board for six months, and will not get a cent this year, as the printing contracts have been let to other newspapers and we do not ex- pect to receive any outside favors from them, for majority of the board has no use on earth for the EPITAPH. But this does not justify us in abusing them for performing their duty, or to be continually bowling about high taxes and hard times, which are largely the result of inertia and dry rot in any community so afflicted What the citizens of Tombstone and the county want to do is to stop moaning about hard times, throw away their yellow spectacies, through which everything takes on jsundiced ap- pearance, ''get move on" themselves, bring a pressure to bear on the Board of Supervisors that will cause them to retrench by reducing extravagant sala- ries and looping off unnecessary ex- penses, take an active part in politics | to the end that honest and competent | men may be elected tO fill the county l offices and pay more attention to the | legislative ticket. If these things be | done it is the opinion of the EPrTAPH that "hard times' and high taxes will soon be things of the past.
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 MIR. HAYWOOD, who has received1