Graham guardian. [volume] (Safford, Ariz.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-08
1.-THE INsOLENCE OF OFFICE"

With Gov. McCord's Prison Com
mission for prison labor refused to
.ccept the following all-important
and the contract, it is
aid was entered into with this
provision stricken out:
"The Canal Company shall give
% the territory of Arizona a suit
.ble bond that said Canal shall be
completed"
BY striking out the above clause,
the Territory has no protection
whatever, and the interests of the
people are left to the tender mere
les of those whose whole stock in
trade is merely the selling of shares
to unsuspecting individuals, upon
the strength of labor furnished by
the Territory at the mere price of
boarding the prisoners. 1t has
been openly charged all along that
Gov. McCord would assist the
schemers in carrying out this out.
rageous plan, and his friends have
asserted as often that he would not
be party to any plan Tor leaving
the Territory unprotected. Gov.
McCord has furnished his enemies
the full proof to sustain the charges
made against him before his con-
frmation. The Territory is to re-
ceive its pay for prison labor in
shares of stock In this canal which
the Canal Company gives no as
suranoe of completing. They prom
Use edry-shares," but no "water.
shares" The Territory had bet.
ter invest in imaginary shares OF
stock in some lizard infested ar
roya, running from the basaltic
hills of Southern California into
the blistering sands of Death Val.
ley. Then there would be no de.
ception, mo disappointment. Had
the contract been written in the
puerile gibberish of idiocy, the
public would be the better of, as
"non.est.factum" could be plead
ed at once.
The political supporter of the
governor and his co-workers, at
Phoenix, announces that the APP
peal to the Supreme Court of the
U. s., taken to overthrow this con-
tract in behalf of the people will
"be dismissed" Certainly so. Nc
Cords creature, now foundering
around in the Attorney General
ship can only do the bidding of his
master who clad him officially.
There is no news in this announce
ment. AS we'll announce that the
eager calf hastens to its lowing
mother when the bars are let down
at morn. II has been thus since
creations dawn. The signing of
this infamous contract, will cause
the storm clouds to gather over the
Territory. The rule of cause and
effect is as old as humanity itself,
and effect will follow this act. The
funding of the railroad bonds of
Yavapai County is another act
against which the Democratic of
ficials of that county protest, but
with the McCord regime, they pro-
test in vain. "Tlme at last sets
all things even," but the people
should never cease to labor against
the consummation of these plans
The GUARDIAN, with many others
asks if those about the guberna
torial haunts of Phoenix intend TO
set the stage of Office for repro
duction of the tragic events OF
ancient Babylon, when official
corruption brought old Belshazzar
to tremble on that fatal night, as
his startled gaze met the hand
writing on the wall. The thonged
scourage of ancient times and the
terrible Russian knout of to-day,
have no brawny arms to swing
them in this domain, but they
should be mercilessly applied
through tongue and pen, until our
public officials shall come to feel
that they are but servants, and
not the masters of the people.
GRAHAM COUNTY offers the best
inducements, as we believe, of any