Arizona republican., 1920-06-23
WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 2a. 1920
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
 Huxley
Corporation Batting

constitutional amendment proposing raise the limit states bonded indebtedness are deliver ing special attacks upon The Republican, charging it with corporation batting some of them more moderately put it corporation batting n a milder form" may pass the that this very sufficient proof that the back bone of the opposition bills the desire to protect the corporations taxation for state road fund
 just deeply concerned with the charge that The Republican is in degree "corporation batter It has never been one and it has sympathy with those who haye annoyed corporations merely because they repre- great aggregations of capital We fully conscious of the great service they have rendered and still rendering Arizona. Anyone of the big mining corporations has done for the up build ing of the state than all the professional politicians, demagogues, agitators so-caled reformers who have yeped their heels. the first corporation ~ entered the territory
 Yet, the corporations have always been blameless. They respect very much like individuals We have encountered the blameless individual-the wholly free from selfishness guiltless the offense ing We expect gone heaven unless the millennium previously intervenes.
 It is notorious that the corporations generally times past taxes as possible; that they legislatures and that they indulged in other reprehensible acts practices which individuals counted them selves pretty good men doing the time though necessarily in a smaller way.
 
 concerned. is largely in the They have that they get along better by paying taxes literally and by appearing less conspicuous tcs- But naturally, (and again, individuals they resist attempts to put other taxes them, though when they have put they tactitly. at least, acknowledge the justice of them.
 We recall that it was. corporation opposition that manifested itself against the school tax bill. Tn the the mining counties (rneaning Q course, only the great mines in those counties) the injustice of taxation wealthy the less wealthy counties argued. The spokes- for the corporations (though of course not recognized mining representatves) resented the progressive movement from the situation in which each community provide it's own schools situation not far from that earlier which each family educate it's own children or let them thrive in ignorance. But have the state school fund and do think now even the mining corporations for they usually composed of reasonable and just men. like the O. would ask for restoration o county or community plan. Res gestae, the corporations ac- cept the plan of well distributed educational tages whole state.
 So, the roads a co- ordinated plan all, every section O state counties in which the great happen o be situated well for the weaker counties whose given stock raising and small farming operations susceptible development when highways have been improved rendering markets accessible.
 There is another feature of the that is by but may be O advantage that is that the interests of the mining Doratons Arizona a certain degree only temporary a way be understood not in socialist way the wealth n mineral resources state Some time the wealth in the mines under operation be gone. A quarter of century ago bad guess was made the a Bisbee be worked out They have not been, of course. but they be richer than ever but in very nature of things the time when ore can be profitably taken of those mines is true of every other mine in the world. We do not point o exhaustion is near and we hope that the mines will not come to il. for long time; hope these corporations may continue to make money they are making gen orally, good
 But inasmuch they are not adding to the wealth of the state; the contrary, removing the should they as sojourners here contribute the future of the a least as great q de gree do the industries increase the wealth O Arizona?
 They in the proposal for a state highway department contribute more, proportion atey than other industries ndividuaIs-only their though they might e unreasonabIy asked 4 pay considering that their operations in the i depletion than in accretor t states resources.
 ,. Theoretically at least. a time must come wher there will be no mining industry in Arizona; wheI the expense of government of highway improvement !. of the schools the whole public burden must b' ts borne by the industries which survive i' There are it is true other reasons put forward why the highway bill should not be enacted But t
 defend the corporations is the real purpose or the op
 ,sition The defects of the measure if there ar'
 any despite the great and painstal1ins care witl which it was prepared despite the successful eN
 .. ,f other states with practically such