Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-21

--. ---~--'---a--asias-a-l-'.s fort should be made to trace the causes leading to the trouble
 "The outstanulng symptoms of dis order within the body human or polite, is plain and judging from the bowls of distress emanating from the taxpayers from all over the state. there Is something wrong with the circulatory system of revenue and expenditure The patient complains that the per capita tax of this state is higher than that of any other sate In Che union and Che highest that any state has ever paid She also complains that the per capita debt is higher than in any other state except one, Massachusetts and lhat her nerves have been shocked and racked for fear that this per capita debt would be multiplied by four. as a result of bond issued voted upon at the November election. Our fair patient further states that as a cunse0uence of certain constitu- uonal provisions reinforced by much nl considered and hasy legislation. her industries and railroads have been hampered and are lauguishing and that her rich relatives of the east absolutely refuse to send any more money for the development Of Ter resources. Capital. always timid. s now actually afraid
 Further the patient ayers that three years ago she was persuaded Co have her troubles prescribed for ny a commission of tax doctors and that theey reduced her taxes 45 per cent ty increasing the assessment valuation nearly 400 per cent which made her pain verse. and she begins Go suspect that these doctors are on the quack order and do not enurey dH the bul
 With this history 1t becomes at once evident that there is grave | disproportiou between the size and
 cals of our state government and l the number of people there are to pay for it
 By the auditors report we find that the per capita cost per year for each child in our schools ap proXlmates S6O. which may be com. pared with an average of S33 for ue Uniteed States and about $7 for neighnoriug state of iTezas for
 one will not risk a sudden death . 'y claiming that Texas las nc schools
 We hnd a multiplicity of com missions and CT educaticl boards Of state institutions. al expensive, and in these we find things being done on scale to which we may grow in len to twenty years but which are too much for a population of les, than quarter of a million. and g vCtul lack oJ accepted business l voeful lack of accepted business methods applied to the finances oI the state If the Southern Pacific railroad. or one of our great mines ! were managed as our states bust 1 ness Is managed they would be u ! the hands Of receivers within a year
 And the sorest spot of an ", find is the operation of our electioI 1 laws thought to be the most pro . agessiva on earth. Analysing the re . nults O, the last election We finn
 conditions under which no mrthc
 development of our state by easterl
 capital can be expected. and unde which millions oi capital now ii . vested in our industries and rai
 roads cannot operate to advantage.
 So long as tho people of a stat - are asked 10 Inform themselves ] D detail concerning all Of our legisl. P tiou and required to express then '- selves by means Of a bollot contail
 ing hundreds of names and scores \ titles to laws just SO long will bliu , voting contribute to our confusion
 As the result Of the effect (
 some of the measures passed at c
 late election there s already ten
 eucy to demand a restriction oi u
 use of the initiative and some d mand for its a5rogaion beyond q lumpose of the initiative to use tI entire electorate of the state as
 general legislature, it would be ha to believe that this step in the e1 ! uuon Of government should be ! traced now.
 And aDro.rs of the existing co utons it may not be amiss to me