Arizona republican., 1914-10-18
A Dishonest Document

states, put in circulation by the tax commission whether privately paid for printed the public expense do know, purports to give facts concerning and territorial taxes The circular intended support the claims of the members of the state administration from the governor down, that it has cost less to run the public institutions, other than schools under state administration than under the last year of territorial government. By suppression of certain vital facts, the cir cular is intended to deceive voters.
 The institutions mentioned the state prison Ike insane asylum and the state industrial school The following is taken from the circular Total appropriation Penal Infirrnary, Charitable
 Correctional and Industrial Institutions .
 Divided follows:
 Prison
 1911-12 1s12-1S 1913-14 1s14-15
 SliO,OOOoO s s4,OOOOO 2O25COO 9O,OOOOO ~ ~ sc.eocoo ssooooo 4sooooo 100000 Pioneers Home
 ... 1a,7OoOO 55OooO 125oooo
 126,oOO.Oo 95,OoOOO 1157OoOo 11sooOoo
 
 s2SsOOoOO $22S7OoOOO s1sl45COO s2s2,5OOoo Levy necessary to raise above
 O292 0162 O.05 0.064
 If the compiers these figures had desired be honest toward the voters they would have suppressed the very important that of the levy of sl4O00O the prison 1911-12, $70.000 used but carried to the first year of the state administration for which levy of s94,- GOO was made leaving available that year for the prison $l6iO00 Probably all of this not used for the year, 1913-4. levy of only s2O, e5c was made that and what left from the previous year was pretty well consumed for this year a levy of $90oOO is made. Assuming that all the money available for the prison this will Ee used We will have annual average expendi- by the present administration of $91417 against S7o,ooo for the last year of territorial government.
 We hesitate reproach the state administra- ton for extravaganza in the management of the prison We admit that there has been marked and even startling increase of crime within ihe last three years and that the population of the prison has been greatly augmented, partly by the accumulation of condemned murderers partly by the of paroled convcts after the commission of crimes, and by the course of the admins- traitor which has rendered foster crime.
 Likewise, the circular is dishonest in the pre- sentaton of figures relating to the asylum. Other wse it would have shown that of the levy of s126,- rou for 1911-12. only s66,OOO used the balance, Sso0O0 being carried to be added to a levy of S95.O0O in 1912-15 The state levy for 1913-14 was SIl5,7OO and for the present year, $l16O00. Thus, see that the actual expenditures for the asylum the last year territorial government was S66000, while assuming that the whole levy for the present year will be expended, the average annual expendi for the asylum by the present administration has been nearly twice great, $12S,S33.
 The tax commission found it impossible to jusgle with the figures of the reform school and they could not be safely falsified. So see that the expense of conducting that school increased from s2o.OO0 in 1911-12 $26,0O0 in 191213 to the levy of Si3,O0O 1913-4 to the levy of $44000 the present year. We may add that the reform school was never well and wisely and humanely man government that reform school was ever more miseraby mismanaged than that of Arizona has been during the last two years of the state administration
 Taking the aggregate cost of conducting these three institutions for the years given and crediting amounts shown by the books of the auditor to have been carried over to the levy of the first year Of the state administration, find the figures to be- 1sIl-12 expenditures, $156,000; 1912-13 levy. $22S- 700 plus carried over $3O000, total, $35S700; 19l3 n levy, s1S445O present levy $262,500. Therefore, administration of $267SS3 for these three nstitu- tions against S156,OO0 the last year of terri toria government In fairness to the state adminis- tration there should be deducted from the states average annual expenditures s9 9O0 the Pioneers home which does not figure in the territorial levy as given above. This would leave the states age $257,9S3