Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-23

AttLU1d De1lfNS tuat tnt miutnS So porations and the railroad companies were running the territory. whereas they are now and always have been the bone, the sinew and marrow of it's industrial life: the Arizona nation alists and Ainsworth and Fitch charge that the mining corporations dominate the vote of their employees and force the election of officials who serve them and not the people: it is hardly nee essary for this paper to make denial of such silly rot as the thousands of men employed by the mining com panies of Cochfse county know that such an intimation is bold. barefaced lie.
 Admitting, for the sake of argument only. that the corporations are con trolling public matters In Arizona. how could the joining of Arizona and New Mexico into one state remedy such a condition. If the mining and railroad companies can control the highly in- telligent vote of this territory what would prevent them from controlling the ignorant Mexican vote of New Mexico which is boiled by the thou sands in every election at ss per vote. The argument that joint statehood would in any way effect the corpora tions so far as elections are concern ed is the si,liest of all the joint state hood claptrap yet put before the peo- pie of Arizona.
 The vote of every election in Ari- zona is guarded by the secrecy of the Australian ballot: when a man goes
 e is beyond the influence of any com pany or individual and he votes for whom he pleases with the assurance that it is secret forever unless he sees fit to voluntarily divulge it.
 In New Mexico the ballot is an open one and the voter may be given his ballot and watched until he deposits 1t in the ballot box; certainly this sys- tenn would be the most favorable for those who desired to control election results by any sort of intimidation. With this system of voting how could joint statehood result in the purified ton of the elections in Arizona. or what promise would there be for less sning the influence of employers over their employees.
 Whether the corporations have di rected the making of laws of Arizona or whether the laws have come from the people of Arizona in no way con. nected with corporations the fact re, mains that the governmental condi tions in Arizona are far superior to the government in New Mexico; we have a school system equal to that of any state in the union; we have an election law that safeguards the abso lute freedom of every individual in the exercise of his elective franchise no matter what the jointure demagogues may say about corporation control we have an eight-hoIr law in Arizona which applies to every man employed under ground in any mine; we have avs which guarantee that when the people elect a man to office he cannot he disturbed until proven guilty of nal. 'easance in his official position-in New Mexico the governor is given the
 power to remove any county official
 n his own motion and on the result of his own Investigation.
 So far as taxation Is concerned we iznow that the tax burden is much lighter in Arizona than New Mexico; 'n Arizona OUT territorial rate is 75 cents and in New Mexico the rate is s1.55, a little more than double what we pay in Arizona In Arizona min ing property and railroad property is assessed for more than it is in New Mexico.
 As said few days ago the most sontemptible and pueriIe argument of the Ainsworth crowd is that the vote Sof the shepherds and farmers of New Mexico is needed to counter. .act and overcome the boss ridden vote of mining camps of this territory. We have large farm
 ng settlements ir. Arizona, but We find farmers and miners all standing to- gether in Arizona fer the progress of the territory; they are all alike satis- fled with present conditions; their taxes are being rapidly decreased every year. their children are being 2ducated in the best schools to be yound in the west, products of the soil and labor command the highest price md wages are good in every indus t-iaI pursf1if