Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-26
GAZETTE TRIES TO DECEIVE.


 The Phoenix Gazette continues to bleed because the people of Arizona will take no stock of it's rawlings about the mining corporations in the terri tory. It has consistently pursued these corporations for the past two years in an attempt to manufacture populari- ty for the territorial administration, of which it is the trucking organ. In recent issue it denies that it has ever done more than insist that the mining corporations should pay their just taxes and deliberately misstates the facts when it says that Governor Kibbey deserved the credit for com polling the mine owners to pay more taxes than they ever had before. Now, this is not the fact, but the reverse is true Governor Kibbey did compel his territorial board of equlization to place an unjust valuation on the non producing mines of the territory, but it is a well known fact that this arbi- trary action was never enforced. This paper has never said that the produc- ing companies, were assessed too high on some of their claims by the terri torial board, but we contended at the time and stiI contend that there was no reason or justice in assessing one mans property for ten times what 1t was worth in order to make another man or corporation pay what should be his just proportion. The arbitrary assessments made by the territorial board at the instance of the governor was nothing more than an outrageous act of confscation of much of the non producing mining property in the ter ritory.
 The law which resulted in increas- ing the mining tax in this territory was passed at the last legislature in face Of the strenuous opposition of Governor Kibbey, who no doubt, would have vetoed the measure had it not been passed by the necessary two thirds required to carry it over the governors veto. When the Doran measure passed the house the general expectation was that it would be ve- toed; that it was not was a surprise to the supporters of the bill who knew of the strenuous fight made bX the governor, who contended that the old law should be amended.
 The editor of the Gazette knows these to be the facts and he knows of the opposition of the governor to the bullion tax law now on the. statute book, still, despite of this knowledge he would have the people of Arizona to believe that the executive was re- sponsible for it's passge.
 4 political meetingN or convention cannot be held in the territory with out the Gazette raising a howl about the corporations being in control and actuated by a desire to destroy Kib. bey: newspapers are branded as cor. poration tools because they insist on the square deal for corporations as well as for individuals. Every news paper and every individual who may | receive employment or business from
 a mining company is pilloried as be i ing in a conspiracy to pdll down the i political house of Kibbey. Take the population of Arizona supported di
 rect,y by employment or business sup
 piled by Jae mining companies away from the territory and what would be
 come of the markets for the beef grain and alfalfa produced in the Salt
 river valley? Can the Gazette answer
 this and still maintain its policy oi bounding the mining companies and
 those connected with them?
 We repeat that it would be better
 for the Gazette and other mouthers 1T
 the Salt river valley to cease theil
 everlasting and senseless yawpins about those who have done so much for the advancement and development of Arizona and for it's prosperity as any other class.
 The Gazette should not continue to attempt to deceive the people of Ari zona by asserting that Governor Kib bey is entitled to credit for inereas ing the mining tax in this territory