Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-22
Thursday Morning, April P, l9l5
SUCK upi SHOW FEM, LEGISLATURE!

One view frequently expressed concerning the extra session of the Legislature which tomorrow is not calculated either to inspire the members with con ddence or assuage their craving for kindly word which might be taken as symbol of public confidence tho eve of their undertakings This has it that little or no good can be expected from legislative body which so aagrany betrayed public interest repudiaed personaliy-made pledges to constituents and offended all of the moralities that should the conduct Of men to whom the public welfare had been entrusted
 The roll will be called tomorrow of an aggregation of discredited lawmakers They it and it is well hat they do know it. This is no time for saccharine words or dissembled sentiments. There are few men on the roster of either house who were not informed on their return from Phoenix last March of the low innate in which they were held as public servants They back apoogetic and whining or blatant and protesting. only to be told plain by the nome folks that neither whimper nor denial would suffice to mitigate the onenses committed by them
 Faith in the Second Legislature of is badly shaken if not utterly destroyed It is reassurinl to the taxpayers of the state to dwell the that such legislature must entrusted the duty of provid ing for the distribution of public Instead of tempatre with wefounded confidence the future of ad- mmiatrauon the commonwealth win be most uneasy un- til the grinding is concluded and the appropriation grst is delivered for scrutiny.
 The procedure is bound to be more perious because of absence safeguards provisions for which were summery dismissed at the regular session. There will be no Public Welfare Board to insist economy h expenditures Substantially the same coteric of men responsible for per capita expense of sl17G for s,atc government Arizona will at their disposal tht funds soon to be appropriated for the States upkeep There is indication that the notorious Land Commis sion and other noxous bodies abhorred by all men ex cept their sponsors can be removed Is it any wonder that citizens who are now handicapped by tax bur rembIe they contemplate the forthcoming extra session and repeat somewhat hopeIessly: Can leo pard change its spots?"
 Mo- this leopard will prove most surprising one i he works selfmposed changes but rests within the power of this Legislature to so shrink the beast hide that the spots win be less noisome and appreciab deprived their cancerous capacity for destructiyenes of public funds.
 The opportunity for the Second Legislature to vi talize those worthy which came before it dur ing the regular session will return. But this extr session presents splendid opportunity to each an, every legislator to retrieve himself from the odiu now attaching him. Each and every member cai demonstrate by voice and hostility toward gran larceny as practced in he raids on public funds UT der the circumstances it better to err on the side parsmony than contribute to the danger of continue eztrayagance State institutions might better be tcucl ed with temporary hunger than crammed with oye much spells substance
 The time will come when Arizona will be admins tered by Chief Executive other officials who, b their acts wm prove themselves entitled to public col ndance Some day, Arizona win take pride in a legis ure which is neither subservient to the whipcrackin of political overlord in ts intellectual fraity su ceptbe to the influence of factional pickering ghic prevents accomplishment
 That some day" may dawn tomorrow. Who knows Out of s admitted wretchedness the Second Legislatu in session may rise to redemption The oppo tunity is presented Arizona can do no more than sa feryenuy:
 Buck up! And show em Legisature!"