Bisbee daily review., 1902-01-01
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 in the discussion of all public questions the REVIEW in another column pub fishes communication for "A Sub scriber" touching on the question of in- corporation.
 In his communication Subscriber" shows a lack of knowledge of the ip- corporation question and many state ments contained therein are mislead- ing and apt to confuse the property holder.
 l. The writer of this communica- tion is possessed of dire forebodings re- garding the capability of the people of Bisbee to elect good city couucil-men who would not plunge the city in debt and make the tax rate exorbitant. The REVIEW entertains no such fears. It has been our pleasure from time to time to note the sterling qualities of good citizen ship to be found in our midst. No other town in Arizona can show bet ter class of citizens and boast of more substantial, progressive and broad minded citizens than Bisbee with it's population of seven thousand souls. To doubt that Bisbee has not the ma terial from which to choose a wise city council is wasting breath on the desert air. This assumption is wrong in the beginning.
 7. The statutes of Arizona provide that the limit of city taxes for improve ments, regulations, sanitary conditions, and for conducting the city govern ment shall not exceed ONE PER CENT. This is the law. anl no city council has the power to provide for any improvements that would exceed this rate. Many Incorporation laws, and some of them very poor ones, have defaced our statutes, but the present law governing the incorporation of towns is a conservative measure that tends to hold tight rein over the city fathers. Tom bstone was incorporated under an entirely different law than the one now in force, but no ''unscru-
 
 intimates, has the power to increase the tax rate over one per cent, unless b the issue of bonds by the city fer material improvements, which would have to be done by a vote of the people.
 5. There is DO intention on the part of any one to mislead the people of Bisbee on this incorporation question. Certainly it is not the intention of this paper to do so. We have only one motive in favoridg the question and that is the betterment and upbuilding of Bisbee in systematic manner, which can only be accomplished by a united effort through the means of in corporation
 "Subscriber is materially inter- ested in the townsite proposition and asserts that from ten to twenty thou sand dollars will revert to the town of Bisbee to be spent as the people dic- tate. How are ths people to dictate how any money is to be expended ex- cept through the means of city gov ernment, and the proper appointed officers.
 1. Now as Jo townsite, wouldn't it be cheaper, quicker, more convenient for all concerned, to have this town site patent issued direct to the people through their city council. Where is all these thousands of dollars that "s2bscriber" says is going to revert back to the town coming from in the first place? Won't it come out of the pockets of the people of Bisbee, and before they get very much of it back fees, mileage, expenses, and incident. als of the probate judge will have taken on Q big elice.
 s. "Subscriber" admits that Risbee is filthy. He is right on that point, and let it be known right here tha, Bisbee, as an incorporated city, will pay no more county road tax. A street tax will be collected in its place and this money expended where it will dc She most good in our midst.
 Such statements as Subscriber ' makes is the cause of misleading people in opposition to move in the right direction.