Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-24
Thursday, June 24, 1915.
A CRAVEN HOUSE

A CRAVEN HOUSE.
 It is sorry condition of affairs when the newpaper' of state encounter the risk of seeming be common scods because of the necessity always writing ad. yersey on subject of first importance to the general public For nearly six months concerning the leg israure has filled the columns of the Arizona press Absence of opportunity to speak in commendaon of the legislature has been no deplored by editors than by readers
 It would be refreshing if the announcement that land legislation is now possible could be made the occasion for discourse in happy and congratulaory vein. As matter fact such treatment would merit the con- tempt of every intelligent citizen in the State. The subject which perhaps unfortunately, cannot be dismissed in silence. The lesson it contains is of too great importance.
 Tacit consent is given by the lower house to pro ceed with the drafting and adoption of land code for no other reason than that Mulfrd winsor volunteered to eace himself as candidate the commssionership In other words land legislation contains no knoy prob nems which could not been solved during the reg uar session t was not the measure you but ly person who was responsible for the delay.
 All this time. legislative progress has been baked denuaoatou has been invited upon itself by the lowe house and important affairs of state have cnored
 
 toward mere personality. The lower house canno. hope sone for its conduct by accepting land code at this late hour. Atonement is out of the question Favorable action now nothing less than confession of shameless guilt
 There is no disposition part to exploit Mulford Wnsor unfavoraby The value of the lesson contained in the affair unless the appeal it makes view cd impersonally The only value in the percept lies in the thought that assemblage Of public servants such as the lower house would so far belte their position and betray the public to dance to the piping any The lower house has been nothing less than servle and clownish. It whether Gov Hunt Mulford Wnsor played the fiddle to who's, tunes tho representatives cavorted But it does matter very seriously that the taxpayers settle the jingle bills.
 A particularly insipid banality in connection with Win sor's welcome enacement-n the absence Of suncien yruty on the part of the lower house do the enac ing Is contained in the following comment by al Arizona contemporary:
 That was a fine public spirit displayed by Chairman Winsor of the land commission yesterday afternoo when he directed his friends in the legislature sut init his official elimination rather than to mperil tn land bill"
 "Fine public spirit" ndeed True public spirit is Una which expresses itself unseldshy True public spr does not wait on personal advantage reveal itself stride into the ime-light when the possessor is almo lost in the shadow Of impeding overthrow. Our col temporary goes on to say: "A word from him CNinsoI would insure the defeat Of the conference report in th house"
 That is Hunts Winsor is admitted to lead Al zona by the nose II would if there were ume-yery recently depared-when this shameless co fession contained truth But believe the public co science has been awakened We believe that outrage public sentiment demands release from the slavery machine politics and that blind obedience to polite bosses win no longer be forthcoming
 1T an the criticisms passed the lower house sim its activities in Phoenix began, had been spoke and u left the representatives to assign yalu lion of themselves, 1t would be supplied in their ov pronouncemont that they have spent the public fund squandered the publics time and forfeited the respe which the public was eager to extend to them, by true Iins o a man when they should have tackled manfully important public measure. by submitting to humiliati bondage when freedom of action entirely with theL legislative brthught