Arizona republican., 1920-12-20
OPPONENTS IF BONDS TRY NEW
 LINE OF ATTACK
Mlsstatements Feature Pro- paganda Issued By 'Coun- clP-Arguments Are Too Weak To Fool Public

The handful of men who have in the past opposed every measure for the good of Maricopa county. are once again engaged in the hopeless task of trying to stop the march of progress! These men have gone to the expense of printing cards in which, under the anonymous title of Council of De- fense," they attack the plans for com pletion of Maricopa county's highway system, and the voting of highway bonds on December 31.
 No one would take issue with these men. if their arguments were hon estly conceived, no one objects to their putting forth their views. if these tons.
 But what the people of Maricopa county do object to. is to have dished up To them number of deliberate falsehoods. The men who are oppos- Ing the good roads are evidently los Ing sight of Lincoln's great truth. that you cannot fool all the people all the time.
 It is interesting to dissect the claims made by the handful of well known opponents of county improve ments who make up this self -consti- tuted Council of Defense The word self constituted" is used advisedly for the Council" certainly was never appointed by the people of Maricopa county
 A Series of Misstatements
 The first claim made by this self created council deals with the matter of the proposed second bond issue carrying one-half per cent more in- terest than the first bond issue. or six per cent interest instead of 51k per cent. And then these gentlemen make the bald statement that this difference of one-half per cent amounts to s5Oo.0O0 on the bond issue of $4,500,0O0. Tho public can say whether or not this statement is an insult to it's intelligence. Since when ft one-half per cent of $4 4500, ,000.00 equal to $500, 100000? This statement of the Council" is merely in keeping with the general run of argument set forth by calamity howlers
 Following this peculiar sum fin arithmetic, the Council" deliberately and gratitously insults the people of Maricopa county by inferring that they are taX-dodgers. It evidently means nothing to the "Council' that 1t is doing irreparable harm to the credit of Maricopa county as a whole. and to every man, woman and child in the county fin particular.
 Having thus delivered a stab in the htlh OA lDe anu us DeODl6, lHt little handful of men go one step fur ther.
 They actually throw out the dis graceful hint that the people of Mar icopa county have not fulfilled their obligations to the national govern ment in regard to the Roosevelt dam project, and the inference is therefore left wide open that the government at Washington is ready to foreclose on the people of this valleyl
 What Is the MotiVe7
 Really, one is tempted to ask, what Is the purpose of these gentlemen in thus publicly attempting to discredit the value of our county investments. and the producing and earning power of our people?
 The falsehoods set forth by the Council" are so infinitely damaging. they seem so deliberately designed to drive capital and investments out of the Salt River valley, that one ques- tions whether these statements are only made in the course of the "Coun- cil's" campaign against the good roads bonds. or whether there is not some other motive behind this campaign of calumny.
 The self-styled and self created Council of Defense next goes on to say that the bonds already sold win be sufficient to build some trunk lines. It is evident that these .argu- mentative gentlemen are not a bit fn- terested in the fate of the individual farmer whose land will not happen to adjoin some trunk lines" that may or may not be built out of the insuffi- cient funds supplied by the first bond issue. Incidentally, there's no need to remind the public that these funds of the first bond issue are not avail able. since they are still tied up in