The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-02-07
GOVERNOR SENDS MESSAGE
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 Therefore, of the s3SO,7493S addi. tional revenue, $31s,226. 59 comes from the States wealthiest inter ests, leaving the comparatively in significant sum of $62,4S2 79 to be borne by all other classes of prop erty.
 Capital Punishment.
 A year ago I recommended to the Legislature the submission of a con. stitutional amendment providing for the abolishment of capital punish lment. That recommendation I now lrepeat, and urgently request that through legislative action the peo pie of the state be afforded an op opportunity to signify their disappro val of legalized murder Present day enlightenment is crystalizine an extended and rapidly extending opposition to the taking of human life, by any means or under any pretext; practical, modern Chris tianity, independent of church or
 
 the dark ages be relegated to the limbo of the past; students of psy- chology, sociology and penology, supported by records no less than by theory and reason, are unit in agreeing that it's practice serves no good purpose, acting neither as a preventive or a deterrent of crime; the march of humanity forbids it's perpetration even as it forbids the mediaeval custom of throwing pris- oners to wild beasts to make a hol- iday, and common sense teaches | that the legalizing of it's horrors must lower rather than raise the moral conceptions and standards of a peo- pie, and breed contempt rather than respect for a law which violates ev- cry merciful instinct and gives the lie to Gods Sinaitic command, Thou shalt not kill
 While this blot remains on her statutes the progressiveism Arizona boasts is defective and weak, and halting, and I therefore urge that it be removed at the earliest possi- ble momoent
 Prisoners Respited.
 In the prison at Florence, sen fenced to death, are five men, Un- der the authority vesed in the Gov ernor, on Ocober g, 1912, I granted four of these men a respite, and to the fifth on January of the pres ent year, in order that the Legisla- ture and the people, before the dis grace of these proposed executions should come upon the State and their blighting influence to those of ficially charged with their carrying out, might have opportunity to de- clare sympathy and harmony with civilizations forward trend
 Railroad to the Gulf.
 The idea of State-owned railroad and connecting at this end with the transcontinental lines traversing Ari- zona, is one which I do not consider entirely visionary. This state in or der to gain the full advantage of the Panama Canal, and to gain free and ready entrance for it's products to the markets of the Far East,mu secure the low transportation rates which can only come with an all or practi- cally all water haul, with direct and close connection with the Gulf of California, and freedom from the ex- actions of monopolistic carriers. This is big undertaking, and I know will seem far in the future, if not quixotic, but it is worth. the most conscienti- ous thought and investigation.
 Compensation for Road Workers.
 As an incentive for good service, | as means of providing for and pro- tecting the helpless and innocent i families they have eft behind, and as a small reward to which they are just 1 ly entitled, the men who do good work on the roads, and thus perform val uable service to the State, should, in my opinion, receive a small stipend, say twenty-five cents a day. This cally to their families or placed to their credit and turned over to them upon release. Oftentimes the exist ence of such a credit, particularly in the case of men not having families, would act as a restraining influence when the temptation to attempt to es- cape would be srongest, and at all times would serve as a tangible bond an evidence of an honorable busi ness elationship-between the State md it's charge, causing the latter to 'eel his responsibility, and encourage n him a desire to live up to it |,
 Equal Suffrage.
 Arizona is now one of the States in which equal suffrage has become an accomplished fact-in which mothers md wives and sisters are accnrdad