Arizona republican., 1913-02-04

day, and common sense teaches that |
 the legalizing of it's horrors must | lower rather than raise standards | of people. and breed contempt | | rather than respect for law which | l violates every merciful instinct and |
 gives the lie to Gods Sinaitic com l
 mand, Thou shalt not kill Revenue and Taxation. 1 As it has been from the beginning | 1 of organized government in all the
 states of the union and all the coun- | | tries of the world, revenue and tax
 ation form one of the chief bones of | contention in Arizona. There are
 widely differing views as to the re- | responsibilities of citizens occupying distinctive spheEeS, and the propor- 1 tiOn of taXation'S burden represent ing their true and proper share but of all schemes and theories and syS
 tems the keynote is equality. In or der that the tax commission may | work to the best advantage, un- hampered by embarrassing and con- fusing restrictions and conditions, l
 recommend that it be given the wid-
 est possible powers, and while the ad Valorem system of taxation issin
 vogue in Arizona, I recommend that the tax commission be clothed with
 full authority and discretion to de-
 termine, by such means as seem to it best, the true value of all proper
 tv of whatever class or character or location, and to assess the same, in- , dependent of or contrary to the views or actions of county assessors l d. liua a Election l..
 l "The registration and primary laws 5 enacted at the last session of the
 legislature are far in advance of 2 those which preceded them, but eX- l perience has indicated some defects which now may be, and I have no doubt will be. corrected.
 Tt frequently happens that an ! elector wishing to equip himself with A certificate, as provided in chapter
 S1 of the session laws. upon which II he may vote for national and state
 officers in a county other than the . one in which he resides and in which - he is registered, cannot, without :, great inconvenience and expense .. travel to the county seat to appear f personally before the county record d CT; and as the law now stands he Is e unable to secure such certificate II q any other way. It would seem tt IF me that provision should be made q for the issuing of a certificate. prop
 erly safeguarded, by the notary pub
 lie, justice of the peace or other dep if uty registering officer, before whom the elector registers.
 Tn this connection, it should als' h be borne in mind by the legislatur ,t that there is at present no provision To of law for the printing of ballots n containing only the names of candl q dates for national and state offices r. for the use of nonresident voters g This should be done, since otherwis = there will be no way of preventin l. electors not qualified to vote fo n, county and precinct officers, iron ,- Going so, or determining whether O )f not they have done so.
 e The law permitting a resident O tt the state who is, at the rrme h st wishes to register in another state 1T to appear before a notary public O
 such state and make his registratio c- affidavit, should be extended so a D. to permit a resident of one count le in the state to appear before not T. ary public of another county an le make the required affidavit in lik in manner, for transmission to the re Dd corder of the county in which he re 1- sides and in which he wishes to b ed registered At the present time h. citizen who happens to be entirel e. out of the state may register withot l.. returning home, but if he is in an In other county of the state he cannC ne register
 on The rotary ballot provision, g re contained in the primary law. shoul e. be applied to ballots used at ger Ss eral elections. There is no doul
 that a considerable advantage en gained by candidates whose name ng alphabetically arranged, come at u no head of a list. This inequality e. advantage should be done away wit h. and the names on ballot So rotate ls' as to place each one at the top a -y equal number of t:mes. Thus sep5 'rt rate columns fir different partie i9' and all party designations eNccl Il" possibly following the name of caC ee' candidate can be done away with,
 "a they should
 GU Tn every possible way the purit
 of the ballot should be guarded al - an honest count assured. l sugge that the statutes might be strengtl a ened if the laws penaliZing 1lleg .r voters were made equally app1cf1b ,iu to those who aid, or encourage, d on rectly or indirectly, the casting ies illegal votes; and strengthened st is more if made applicable to office ,Re, of election who conspire with othe ,l- for or knowingly permit the castn ,or or counting of illegal ballots, or u
 counting of illegal ballots, or ite counting of ballots erroneously. nd - ed There is no better medicine ma