The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-16
$4OO APPROPRIATION FOR
JAIL A JOKE SAYS PRESCOTT

ed fools who permitted ourselves to
be buncoed into electing just such a
bunch to run our county affairs. Ii
l had one Of them working for me
| would fire him and hire a Mohave
Indian instead. Now, | for one, am
ready to tell them to take their pa
try four hundred dollars and go plum
| tO-halifax with it. We are under no
obligations to them and don't want
any of their skimped donations of
our own money.
And listen people, they are going
to allow fifty dollars a year for TAX
ing care of this jail. Now you fellows
go back and sit down. l have been
voting the democratic ticket since
was seventeen yeors old, and some
times l voted two or three times
day, for we needed the votes down
where I came from to beat a hated
republican for Congress, who came
near getting in on account of some
democrats having too much wool III
their teeth, and am going to ask for
this job. l never felt equal to serv-
! ing my country before. | don't care
50 much for the pay, but maybe
they will send me to some conven
| tiOn Of Chiefs of Police, or good
roads, either of which ought to be
in my line if l get the job. | may
Whack the salary with you, or buy
soda pop with it but l want the hon
nor and you fellows have got to
stand for it. Some of you who have
not much self respect left can run
! for Supervisors.
| Just think of that salary. Fifty
dollars a year, Why every little old
school house in the country pays ten
dollars a month to be swept out
/ lust once a week. Of course a fellow
keeping the Jail would not have
much to do Probably carry out the
pals every morning, carry grub two
or three times a day to the inma les,
/
and he on hand at any time that
his services might be required.
Some more munificence
These Supervisors were so afraid
that they would spend some
thing at Parker, that in their extra
caution to make it impossible, they
have made their bluff ridiculous
l hope the people of Yuma wont
find this out. They might feel peeved
at the extravaganza of their "Busi-
ness Managers, and might think
the people of Parker had been flirt-
ing with their loved ones. However,
such is not the case. We set back
and let our Yuma friends name the
men, and like good democrats, we
took our medicine and awaited results.
Well, we are pretty we'll purged,
fellow democrats of Yuma, and you
are going to have to show us next
time. We are perfectly willing for
you fellows to have all the offices,
but We want value received. You
know these prediction promises
wont rattle like money in our pockets,
nor do they build roads or jails
We know this money went some
where or else it was badly managed,
and listen, not ONE DOLLAR has
! been spent on the roads at or near
Parker for over four years, until
last they did spend seventy dollars.
You know what that means. For owe
four years we haven't had a place
to put a drunk or disOrderly man,
Or for any other law breaker that
might need the cooling Influence of
a house of detention. We could not
expect a constable to sit up and
guard his prisoners and hence many
OF them were not arrested.
Now they offer us four hundred
dollars to build Jail when the re-
cords will show that their predecess-
ors could not build a very common
house, that would hold prisoners for
thousand dollars. What kind of stupid
ity would you call this?
A. S. PRESCOTT.