Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-11-25
TIE NEW CONSTITUTION.
Why It should No, Re Adopted.

sion or amendment. No proposi'
 tion in it, ne matter how obnoxiou:
 it may be, or what injury it may in
 fiict upon the public, or the private
 inherent rights of individuals, can
 be altered or amended in les
 period than five years.
 It completely ignores the crime
 of polygamy, when it is well
 known fact that the Mormon vote
 is the balance of power in Arizona,
 and that the members of that faitl
 regard their church as the suprem,
 power, and everything else in state
 or local government as secondary
 This condition of things will surely
 pre- 1t the admission of the Stat,
 by ongrass, and should the consti-
 tction be adopted as it n w stands
 in this regard. it will prevent the
 admission of our State for many
 yeas. Congress and tue sentiment
 of every State in the Union is unani.
 mously opp sed to the crime oi
 polygamy, and the whole nation will
 be against Ariz"das admission un-
 tit large majority of our people
 shall show exclusively that they
 are e4.ucato. up to decent stan,l-
 a-d as against the crime.
 " its provisions a little ring of
 officials as eacl, county seat have
 power t. create as many deputies as they please and fix their salaries, to
 be paid by the taxpayers. This
 makes possible the organization of
 paytisan aad boodie rings through out the Sil.e, all expenses to be
 paid y icxa ion. No such power es this shoal,. eve be placed in the
 han ls of ary party.
 In it's p29s'sions fof subsidies it
 is made au rasy matter for nontax- payiag vo'ecs to place a tax up to the limit If the law, Lpon all taxa ble prope"ty, whenever desired. This reu,lecs 1t easy for ths schem- CTS ju any piece of jobbesy 10 rob ihe taxpayers, an.l the la.,er have no power to protect themselves. Tho Importing nf a few transient no saxpa.siog voters can bring this rpi .bc.y upOp those who pay the taxes n any city or county in the Stae. California is now suffering in conseqrcacc of such job', cry, and Arizona will surely be in a like fix should thc Sta,e be admitted under this iniquitous constitution.
 The rocument in question is framed entirely in the interest of the capitalist or monopolies as against ae farne.s, miners, labor ing class. auI especially the tax payer. Many an, long were the interviews between some of the f,drc1s of h's constitution aud the manipulate $ of the various eorpo- ratiops before i.s irrigating and clauses were arranged so as to ,ully satisfy ;he monopOlists and a. the same 'ime conceal as much ss possible he clutch Of the tyraut uDon he throat of every laboring iodus'"y within he proposed State under i provisions. Mess,s. Hogg, Stea' x Debour may organize a ditch company. By importing few laborers aad rsing heir votes, the taxpayers sh.il be compelled to pay foi making the ditch. Then Messrs. H ogg, Steal x Dobour, who, perhaps, had not a dollar to begin with, will occupy fine office and every man who uses their property in water. to Day tlem zen dollars for the right to take trink of their "property." and in addition he must pay for every trink he takes of their property" This IS not an exaggeratiCn.
 With our present public ,lebt of B. ),030, the additional taxation It ary to run the machinery of he new state, to which must De 'dded the less of the S36,003 paid by government to run the territory and he operations of monopolists, cor or individual capitalists, 'rovide.. for and protested by this ], institution it is easy to see what must be the inevitable result. Should he state le admitted under this con there is nothing but finan- ;al ruin, bankruptcy, or. that most isSraceful of all liquidations ~ re- udiati n, in store for Arizona.
 Und the provisions of this new all the waters of the erritory are declared property" nd the right of individuals or cor orations to appropriate and acquire l his ''pr 'pcrty" and to sell and lease | ne same for all irrigation, stock, eneficial or .'omestic purposes" is specially declarHd to be a right that shall never be denied" Instead of taking the canal companies com lon carriers who may receive just nd reasonable c ,mpe' sation for lrrying the waters where they may 3 needed, the waser itself Is de- ared a property, ani as such be- ,mes a stock in trade just the same ! that of any merchant or ,'ealer in her commodities. Now apply the lies that govern such commodities this property in water. Ifyou go to a store and take anything you ed with ut paying for the same, :. matter how great your necessity. 'u are, in the eyes of the law, q lief. So 1t Is under this coEstitu- on felony for any one to take a ink of water from one f these tches or even from the ri1er above cir sources, unless the one ho inks has bought the water, The irsty traveller or prcspoctor who ay cross an arid desert mus. not ( ke drink or fill his canteen a len ,
 reaches one of these ditches. '(o ist not water his h rses ortake , for his camp cookery un- | IS he has purchasel the wa CT. If
 does this he is guilty of lirc ny { d subject to prosecut' 'n for his I me by the owncfs of this prop | y." Can any reasonable intelli- t nt voter favor sach a monstrous c quity as this! h There is some prospect of future a -ial navigation. Air is used frr c wing wind iaills and in compressed t m for running machinery. It is a o constantly used for breathing \ rDOSes Oar constitution makers l n