Tombstone prospector., 1896-10-17
RALLY LAST NIGHT.
Speech of the Hon. William O.
 O'Neill.

Busky O'Nsill made his speech iasi night so . crowded house. Ha made ! . meat favorable impression through the fact that he conducted his cam pAign in . gsntlemsnls manner, as, once referring 10 sith.r ,f bis po,it-
 ical Opponents. prsssrring "a make the fight on merit and worth. His delivery was smouth and ..sy and he was accorded strict As'sr,ion by iis
 hearers. I've publish portiou oi his
 speech which covers some intsreslip pg
 isess and which was e follows:
 "sincs 1883 the total taxable pro perty Of ths territory has declined
 from $36, ,o0o, 900 to $2s, 100000. The public indebtedness increased from $s33 per capita in 1880 to s49.2s in 1890, or more than five field. The p:i.
 vats indebtedness, as sIampli6sd by
 mortgages, in the same period he'd in ersssed from 377 mo -tgsges in t11S0, representing . total indebtedness ot $S9S, ,750 so l474 in 1890, representing . total indebtedness of $2, ,348, ,5l9, on which the annual interest charged was the enormous sum of $fb5,9 ,923, or nearly $20 per capita breach voter in the territory. The rate of taxation had during the same period increased % snormously that in soms sections 1t amounted to five dollars on each one hundred dollsrs-enough to deter the coming ssttiers-while capital be- fore investing indicted on the enact msnt of laws sxempting them from such enormous payment of taxes.
 "Whils this had gone on the mineys of the territory had taken from natures treasure vaults . hundred
 millions of dollars in gold, silver and copper, while the farmers asd stock- men had produced over fifty millions of dollars' worth of animal and sgri- cultural wealth, making . total of $l50, 900 900. or more than five times all the wealth existing on the sssess- ment books of Arizona.
 Under ordinary conditions enough of this wealth should have remained q, th> savx,,1,v sn bo,> .,,.o..aa ,I > taxable property, but instead, under the existing gold standard that takes from the toilsr to give to the money trsfcker and money lender, the peo- pie of Arizona who had produced the $I50, ,OOO, 900 of gold, silver. copper, cattle, sheep, wool. barley, etc. had received barely enough to keep body and soul together. much lsss than enough to better their condi.:on.
 "Ths deserted ranch on every road side, the empty buildings on either side of grass- grown streets in chsrnei house sllence. the hundreds of men broken in hope and spirit that filled the hills of the territory bare witness of the cost in human suffering and dsgred.,ion entailed on the toiling masses by . gold standard that made the owners of gold masters of She worlds brain and muscle.
 "The disasters wrought by the de- mon situation of silver had been vide spread, sxtsnding from the Atlantic to the Pacific; AriIona had not suffered
 alone; the evidences had been perhaps more marked for the reason that for years Arizona had been neglected and treated as an outcast sister of the union e unworthy of confederation or recognition. While othe, territo- r,es had received appropriations of millions of dollsrs for the opening up oi Indian reserystions 10 settlement, for erecting capital buildings. psni.
 sentiAriee. schools, hospitais, assay ofIices, sic., and millions oi acres of land for educational, charitable, irri- eation and oths. purposes, budding homes for disabled miners. orphan
 ssylums, industrial schools, deaf and dumb institutions, schools of mining, etc, and admitted to statehood, not
 one brick had Leen placed upon another or one acre of land msds pro.
 ductive by government aid in Arizons. On the contrary military poss Af'sr , military post hsd been abandoned, and even the protecting poser of the nation had been withdrawn from the homss of its citizens, simply becauss
 in the past 0s asa of Ari- zsns hsd sought to promote the infio- sncs of political srties rather than the welfare of their own homes by the election of men to office whose only claims ts that right were that they were Republicans or Democrats-
 While the politicians he'd been able to sivs Auzous seven governors in . It. sls ever ten years. chiefly to satisfy A IL u>s,v aun1ttiona ny apita