Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-17
EPES RANDOLPH GIVES
 OPINION OF TAX EATERS
(From Thursdays Daily.)

The following letter is taken from
 Dunbar's Weekly:
 John Dunbar, Esq. Phoenix, Ariz.
 My dear Mir. Dunbar: I enclose a
 clipping from Dunbar's Weekly of
 date December 26 1914. The advice yon give in this editorial is absolute
 ly unsound. You are generally fair;
 this time you are most unfair because
 the very things you say that the kid
 glove corporation bosses" Gas you
 term those of us who are managing
 the corporations of Arizona) should do, we have done and are doing Your
 description of us, too, 1 fear, is little misleading. 1 don't recognize myself as the kid glove" kind and 1 must say, in justice to my friend, Raw hide" Jimmy Douglas, that he never looked much that way to me. How ever, that is by the way.
 If you mean by an animated Amer ican citizen" a man who despises the dGmagogue the tax-eater, the chronic office seeker and the man, too, who expresses himself to that effect open ly, loudly and on all occasions, it then seems to mic that I fill that bill, as do also some of the other gentlemen whom you name, and if you can tell me how l can make any more noise along those lines than I have made and l am making, 1 shall be very grateful. As proof that l have done all to protect the property in my charge, l am going to insist that you read few papers which I am enclos- ing you, and when you have read them, send them back, because they are a part of my record. I could send you forty times as many papers as l do send, but fear by the time that you shall have read those that I do send, you will have had reading enough.
 The first legislature of the good state of Arizona passed certain bills, some six in number, calculated to de prive the Arizona railroads in the az gregate of $950,000 per annum. Not one of these bills added one dollar to the income of single soul then living in Arizona and could not do so, except the three-cent fare bill The railroads took advantage of the ref erendum and referred these bills to the voters. Twenty thousand pam phlets were published by Us describ- ing these bills and these were mailed to individual voters. l hand you one of the pamphlets-please read it. In addition to this we published the rail road side of this question in every paper in Arizona, two papers in Cali fornia that are read in Arizona and one i'll Texas that is read in Arizona: we paid regular advertising rates for these publications. If I remember correctly, newspaper that you had charge of at that time received some | $750 for carrying our advertisement, | q hand you copies of some of these advertisements.) In addition to this, we employed one, of the most lucid | public speakers in Arizona-a man who is well known in the state; we sent to San Francisco for the man in charge of the publicity bureau of the Southern Pacific at that time. who | is one of the most forceful and clean cut speakers in the United States Gin cidentally, I will say he is now prac- ticing law and ca rning about $35.OOO a year). These two gentlemen then stumped this stale for three full spoke to every audience that would listen to them, rode in automo- piles and talked to the farmers. ex- our side of the question; we hired comfortable halls, employed brass bands tol draw audiences to '