Tombstone epitaph., 1896-10-18
RALLY LAST NIGHT.
Speech of the Hon. William o.
 O'Neill.

Busky ONsill made his speech las
 night so . crowded houss. Fl. mad,
 . msst favorable impression ahrougt
 the fact that he cnaductsd his cam.
 paign in . gsntlemanlv manner, re,
 once referring to either of bis polit-
 icsl opponents. prsisrriny to make
 the fight on merit and worth. Hi,
 delivery WAS smooth and easy and he
 wss accorded strict attention by his
 hearers. We publish portion of his
 spseoh which covers soms in tsresiins |
 facts and which was As iollows:
 Since 1883 the total taxable pro-
 perty Of the territory has declined
 from $36, ,oOo, 900 to BPS 900 900. The
 public indebtedness increased from
 $9.33 per cApi,a in 1880 to s49.2s in
 1890, or more than five field. The pri.
 vats indebtedness, as examplised by
 mortgages, in the same period had in-
 crsssed from BIT mortgages in tl1S0,
 representing . total indebtedness ot
 $s9s,750 to l474 in 1890, representing
 . total indebtedness of $2, ,3zS, ,5l9, on
 which the annual interest charged was
 the enormous sum of e255,923, or
 nearly $2O per capita for each voter
 iu the territory. The rate Of taxation
 had during the same period increased
 60 snormously that in come sections
 1t amounted to five dollars on each
 one hundred dollars-enough to deter
 the coming ssttler--whils capital be- fore investing insistsd on the enset- mont of laws exempsing them from such enormous payment of taxes.
 "while shis he'd gone on the miners of the territory had taken from natures tres.urs vaults . hundred millions Of dollsrs in gold, silve. and copper, while the farmers and stock men had produced over fifty millions of dollsrs' worth Of animal and agri- cultural wealth, making . total Of $l50, DOC. LOO. or more than five times all the wealth existing on the assess. ment books of Arizona.
 Under ordinary conditions enough of this wealth should have remained in the territory to have increased tLe taxable property, but instssd, under the existing gold stAndard that takss from the toilsr to give to the money trafcker and money lender, the pso- pie of Arizons who had produced the IJo.OOO,0O0 of gold, silver, copper, cattle. sheep, wool. barley, etc.. had received barely enough so keep body and soul together. much less than enough to better their condition.
 "Ths deserted ranch on every road. side, the empty buildings On either side | o! grass- grown streets in charnel house silence, the hundreds f men broken in hope and spirit that filled | the hills of shs territory bare witnsss of the cost in human suffering and entsi!ed on the toiling i mAsses by . gold standard that made the owners of gold masters of the worlds brain and muscle.
 "Ths disassers wrought by the de- m monstization of silver had been vide 1 spread. sxtsnding frsD the Atlantic to | the Pacific: AriIons had not suffered alone; the evidences had been perhaps I moro marked for the reason that for ! ysars Arizona had been neglected and treated as an outcsst sIstsr of the union As unworthy of consideration or recognition. While other tsrrito- riss had received appropriations of millions of dollars for the opening up oi Indian reserystions to ssstlemsnt, for erecting capital buildings, psni. | schools, hospitals, assay o&ees, etc., and millions oi acres of | isnd for educational, charitable, irri- gstion and other purposes, budding ! homes for disabled minsrs, orphan asyluuns, iodusssial sohools, desf and dumb instisusions, sohsols ei mising, etc., and admitted to ststebsod, not one brick had teen placed upon ar other or one aess of land msds pre-. doctivs by eovernneLt aid in Arizona. On the contrary military poet sf'sr post had been sbandoned, .nd even the protecting rosSr of the nstioa he'd been withdrawn from the housss d its citisens, simply becauss in the past i.0s osa sf Ari- Eons had sought to promote the ipfu- ,ncs of political Tssties rather than he welfare of their own homss by the ,aseeiss of men to ofice whose only ,isims- ts that right were shss shsy were Republicans or D~noorsts. While ti,a politie,Sus hsi boen able 0