Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-02
FACTS AND FIGURES THAT STARTLE
 THE TAXPAYER OF YAYAPAI COUNTY

cia condition as it conronts him today and will reasonably and nteigeny face to face with the absolute facts that apparent he will become astounded the magnitude of the of money that eXacted from him annually and well will he be supeed in the disposition of the
 In the assessed valuation of all property Ill Yavaa1 county up O6O S and the the county de- tereom this year through the payer reaches the total of S23S 7O332. Of this that is be paid into the treasury Yavapai county year. will be deducted for the Territorial levy but 95 from each SIOO of that sum- leaving balance be directly and specifically applied for county purposes of $2IoOOo
 This first named that to be borne by the payer n 1904 the situation that conronts him today and from which he cannot escape Besides this there is associated the above the payment of the road and the poll tax and the special school leves all ot which combined increase the above total by many thousands of dollars than shown. All the htful IS the duty of the tax payer to be considered accordingly.
 The assessed valuation of all property Yavapai county for 1904 index of financial stability and pared with former years there shown material increase in certain avenues-he payer. But years roll around and the assessed valuation o property gradually Craws upward nConroveTibe fact that county expenditures likewise travel hand in hand n dsbursng the money of the people. There seems to no redress wthstandg this magnificent valuation of nearly six million of dollars there escape from the iron clad that permanently fixed four per and which the payer annually substantaes by contributing practically quarter of million of dollars In other words, assessed val uaon yearly climbs and reaches another high mark does the standard remain arbitrarily crysalzed in the official barometer at four per cent It will not away and likelihood under present rules of official life of being disturbed The burden of the people in hold ing up this principle of downright exacon IS all the
 
 make 1t
 Laying aside the question of partisan principle and taking into consideration tAe official qualification of servants and particularly the board of supervisors has stood for the past years, the payer only becoming uneasy and restless but well alarmed and ouspoken. They see redress because s and they know it. principle that be lived up and srenuousy fol- lowed Ill the handling of their money It proven the past and 1t will be eXemped in the future. The n- creased valuation of the present year substantate this be ef and than that the old iron clad tax rate of four per cent emphatically proves it. There Is avenue by which this question can be evaded.
 During the years of 1903 and 1904 the system of official management has been consistently and runously fol- lowed out by the supervisors received wholesome vena ton n the high handed and unjust discrimination between the rich and the poorhe avorsm of the board of super donating the United Verde fourteen thousand dollars of the struggling and honest payers money The rotten ulcer o the county poor farm also broke loose that carries the stigma that official methods lax say the least The installing of hot air heater in the house to nearly $5,OoO of the payers money useless and exavagant adjunct The expenditure of $8Ooo of the peoples money that dsspaed the pub lie plaza and thousaads of dollars that reached per scnal channels through official avoritsm. We do be- eve the board of supervisors have acted corrupt They have been unduy negligent and subservent to the welfare of every except the payer that f. nanciay yoked Ill devotion to his countrys support The renzled finance that Yavapai has been crucied with in partisan channels should be repudiated Instead na ca that IS be consistently sluced with established rights of class against another the benefcen method of equality to all should prevail
 In the interest of the public good and of partisan duty the board of supervisors should be cleaned The political principles o this democratic board have been tested success1vey and d1sastrousy Rerenchment motto of democracy Let them live up that principle and observe the following
 First-Eect board of supervisors in opposition part isan principle that has prevailed for years the financial dscred of every business interest Yavapai county It has been proven and why again tolerate it. Avenues of material service utility whatever have created drain away the dollars the subservent tax payer and the endorsed only the will 1t be persisted in The roll of 1904 and the hacneyed four per rate again is before you Men demanded the broad plane of duty the connving that the greedy corporation crawls under.
 Second-Eect business to the legislature who are