Mohave County miner., 1914-10-31
Referendum And Other Petitions.

Tuesday will be found many measures
that will have to be considered by the
voters of this State. Among these is
the prohibitory amendment to the con-
stitution. This is a bad measure, no
matter from what angle it is consider
ed. Arizona has need Of every class
of business and, it would be poor policy
at this time to drive out licensed
saloons and install the professional
bootlegger. Law and order can be
maintained much more readily under
the license system than under system
that will build up the blind pigs, blind
tigers and a horde of bootlegging
uudergrade people. We know that a
high license system of control would be
the best that could be installed in Ari-
iona, as it would cut out the dives and
allow only moderate drinking.
Another measure that ranks as one of
the rankest on the ballot is that under
the appellation of the "MOthers Pen
sion Bill" This measure proposes to
cut out the county farms and hospitals
and put the INDECENT under the State
Board of Control. This State board is
to allow each INDECENT the munifcent
sum of fifteen dollars per month, in
lieu of the present medical and other
care received at the hospitals and farms
of the counties. Think of the poor fell
lows in the county hospital of Mohave
county having to subsist on fifteen dol
lars per month, crippled, infirm, far
past the three score and ten, and un-
able to take any part in their own care.
While the bill may have been initiated
with the best of intention, it is meas
ure that was given little thought and
the humane people of Arizona should
vote it down.
The Miami County bill is another of
those measures in which one man pro-
poses to steal a county and is asking
the whole state to take part in the
larceny. Miami county would comprise
but one-siXteenth of the county of ella,
but it would take away one-half of its
taxable property. And why should the
people who believe in home rule give
assent to such proposition, and boom
the real estate of the owner of Miami
county. 1t is proposition rotten to
the core and we hope the people of Ari-
iona will give it its eternal quietus.
We are not at this in favor of an ap-
preparation for the San Francisco or
San Diego expositions, for the reason
that we can use all the money at the
disposal of the state for our own in
ternal improvements and to give en-
ployment to the thousands of idle men
that the Europeanwar has thrown out
of employment. Had an appropriation
been made during the last session of
the legislature it might have been all
right, but conditions have changed too
materially to allow of it now. Then
the State was in most prosperous con-
dition, but now thousands of men are
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in search of work and we want them
cared for.
Measure 1O4-1O5, which has for it's
object the issuance of 5000, COOS for
the building of good roads. while being
Objectionable for it's manner of being
brought into life, is commendable for
the work proposed to be done. If it
carries it will give employment to
several thousand men for year or two
and give to the State system of good
roads. We are for it for that reason.
We want every man at work in Ari-
IONA at good wage, and this APP
preparation will do it. The policy of
the administration is for the building
of good roads and the employment of
the many thousands of idle men, citi-
zens of the State. The vote of all
should go for this measure.
Measure 3O2-3O3 is the three cent
fare bill. This is the same measure
that the courts decided adversely last
year. The power of regulating the
railroads is in the hands of the Corpora
tod Commission and it is foolish to
take this power away from it, or to at
tempt to make laws that the courts
will repudiate. Today the people are
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