Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-04-05
nAnRoAn ExEMrrIoN.

displays tendency to kick out of the traces, on ,he issues contained ia the bill exempting railroads from taxation. It's course Is evidently taken from a standpoint that We have enough railroads tnow that the $. F., r. X P. is at last assured), and
 furthermore we do not want any
 moro corporate leeches to suck and
 drain blood from the already hum
 ble taxpayer, unless they are willing
 to put up.
 It seem to be the intent of the
 article to run the woman suffrage
 aud railroad exemption propositions
 before the people in a neck and neck
 race and give the people chance
 to cut and slash, in which the rail
 road would receive just fifty per
 cent more thrusts than its runaing
 mate, or enough to make it fall
 helpless in its tracks. This is too
 bad. What is the matter with hav-
 ing the r. X 4. C. likewise entered
 in the race, just to even up the mat
 ter, and change it from an exemp- ton race to Si.0O0 per mile subsi- dy bonus. This would certainly
 draw the whole county out on the
 grounds, besides it would place
 Messrs. Hawkins, Behan and Burke
 in an impartial light before the
 vision of Courier readers, as jud ,yss.
 It is cruel in you, Colonel, when one
 glances over the course of your
 paper last fall and sees with the
 naked eye the glittering eulosies
 you passed on the democratic nomi-
 nees ''of the people and for the pao-
 pie" Have these men jumped ilpm
 under the lash, or arc they really
 representative men, whose ideas
 after leaving the sphere of your
 journalistic realm have chan gel
 after beholding progressive Pheaix.
 and desiring at the same time to
 make their own dear Prescott like
 wise prosperous, have, of course,
 jumped onto the exemption plank
 to make it teeler this way, just to
 see how it feels to be away up in
 the air for once only. Surely ii is
 distressing, but whether or not they
 will change to your views and sub
 init it to the dear people, is ques-
 tion we know not, for outside of a
 general acquaintance with these
 men of your party and choicc, we
 are not permitted to taste of their
 political secrets or their legislative
 desires. They seem to be doing
 pretty we'll though in their JcTer-
 sonian principles, for you know one
 of the first acts of the first Conti-
 mental Congress shortly after the ratification of peace, was, evea iu that day of hostility. to ex- empt British gold when they de-
 sired to use it in mills. manuilc- tures and tho like in New Jersey. This later offspring of Jefersonian democracy is doing nothing elsc ! than apeing their grand old leader, ! and if they are not doing their duty toward a democratic constituency I they are sincere enough to think that they are. In demanding ex- Mr. Hawkins argument was filled with forcible ideas, and how plain and beauteous was ;he picture he presented when the Ais soaFi legislature threw open its nndeveloped resources, away back in the i0's, for "exemOt" capital to come and reclaim the country. Di- greSsing for the time, he goes to and still further pleads his case. by stating that in 1889 that State offered any railroad exemp- r5nli it woGfd '0inIv ST-it... .s5---7. 2 an see how consistent our council nan has been, both in business jews and in political life since Phe- K has been his temporary home as
 representative of all classes of the eople of Yayapai.
 Messrs Behan and Burke are like ise inclined to travel the same [ rade, for you know there is one ' .ature of the democratic party J hIch has impressed itself on ;be q ation. Where ono good act is [ one by its party the rest take it up ld follow in the swim. This is lt natural il this ca. and it shows ? consistency which is as good as it a to be expected. We are tired of | lis old trail life. It ls too slow to /, avel on. This county in particu- r is going along at an alarmingly ow pace. People on the outside h .ok at the map to see railroad con q .ctions. and every line they see S, IS "proposed' attached to it. |, here is something wrong, evident " ], now with the times. Men or '' Ipital will not go into the desert a ke they used to in the sweet old e avs, when wood and water had .to } carried to sustain life. You have Dt. to have gilt edged cars and st class accommodations, even if iey arc to have perpetual exemp- h; Dn. The rates of taxation are too CT igh, besides there is a general hos Iity against railroads. They won't co me unless you pull them into th e to untry, particularly a country like -izona. Ii may not be just right nc say SD, but it Is the truth neys.. ro eless, in q general sense. After In } get these big corporations in of re, then we can cinch them if th ey do us.no good. Bnt keep quiet. 't's exempt them just for the fun n; it, and then we can throw that ne mocratic chestnut of "unconstitu- 'nality" on the track, and away pl, es the system. to, The Courier knows We are for the { ople just as sincerely as it is. and reT " We have logged the city at mcil tO Ina eVamnf from, ,,,,.:. nOt