Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-07-08
FOURTH GRAFTON
A POLITICAL
SPEECH
(From SUNDAYS Daily)

Tx 1T a. iio HlAlNs allN AipA AlNANA NANCs
u. Young. Mayor of Phoenix, and
speaker of the day at the patriotic
exercises held in the plaza yester-
day morning from flaying and
flouting the State and National Dem
ocratic administrations. The Gov
ernor sat unmoved while his neigh
Dor from the south INDUCED in caus-
tic criticism, which in a measure
reflected on his conduct of the al
fairs of Arizona.
Referring to national and State
expenditures the mayor said.
Excessive taxation was the cause
of the making of this government
and excessive taxation is one of the
dangers threatening, its destruction
today. Our national, State and
municipal governments are top
heavy by reason of expense. This
must be rectified and great caution
must be used in this reform. The
land is filled with reformers, some
sincere and many insincere. Grant
ing their intents are pure, their
methods are dangerous. True re
form is by construction, not de
struction. Government ownership OF
railroads. telephones and telegraph
lines will be well in the future, but
not now. Mankind is yet too far
from the millennium. Our govern
mental fabric is too huge. The pay
rolls contain ten names where one
should be sufficient Government
should strictly regulate public utili-
ties. not own them, because govern
ment is teo complex now, and must
be simpli6ed"
Speaking of the administration
action in regard TO the repeal of
the free tolls bill in the Panama
canal question, the regional bank
legislation, and the presidents Mex
lean policy. Mayor Young said:
This nation will now begin to
suffer from much especially mis-
chievous and vicious legislation. The
repeal OF the free tolls bill in the
Panama canal question is too dis
tressing for a patriot to discuss. 1t
is ( long step. back toward mon
o-cL;,1 ,,o,-a-,,,aut Tbo -orr;o-, I
bank scheme is a criminal act I'M
der the guise of reform legislation
and makes liberal the worst acts
of royal financing. As nation we
stand discredited in the eyes of the
world because OF our mistakes in
our Mexican policy wherein good
red-blooded Americanism has had
to bow in shame before the mon
archial hints to the disciples of
"inocuous desuetude."
I'm strong turns. he continued:
Here is our own beloved Arizona,
we have tax law an almost dupli-
cate of the famous 170S French tax
bill which Frustrated France for an
hundred years, and nationally, we
have stultiied our greatness by our
system of taxation.
And now for fear the burdens of
the people of this wonderful young
State are not sufficiently heavy, all
the insidious logic possible to eman-
ate from selfish minds is being
put forth to the taxpayers of this
State to vote bonds amounting to
the enormous sum of $5.075000 for
good roads and the San Diego Ex-
position. No good citizen will de-
cry good roads or good farming
but the taxpayers OF this State
should realize, and know the time
is now here, if ever, to end the
voting of bonds. thus creating enor-
nous slush and political funds for
improvements which can be done in
other ways at not 10 exceed TWEEN
ty-ive per cent of the cost of such
improvements under the old-time
political ways. These are harsh
facts, but weak is the man afraid
10 express an intelligent truth.
Our internal policy is one OF
theory and complexity. Every hon
est American believes in the preser-
walton of natural resources but not
in the theoretical and expensive way
as at present urged. More men and
women in Arizona than anywhere
else are beginning to discern that
every reserve created is one step
nearer monarchy. In fact, it is
monarchial form truly copied. Re
serves stop development, destroy
individuality and palsy communities
States and nations, and you, my
friends OF Prescott, will bear out
the truth of the assertion that the
best in Arizona has not been reserv-
ed for the people but from the PEG
pie, and every reserve created. if 4