Tombstone epitaph., 1921-06-05
BEWARE OF THIS PETITION
IBenson Newsp

 canyassers who candidly admit they d, not understand it's object but who are paid wenty-five cents for each name they secure to 1.-the real ob- ject of which is 10 invoke The Refer endum on House Bill Ss of the last Legislature.
 House Bill S3 against which the un- derhand petition is directed. is de- signed to aid all the Irrigation Dis tricts of the state. by enabling the state 10 take the Irrigation Districts bonds in exchange for state bonds bearing less rate of interest. The true situation is that at the Second Special Session of the Second Arizona Legislature in 1915. by what was known as Senate Bill No. 5. and is now Chapter s of the Sessions law of tHat Stssiou ol ASA5, tuefe was pdsS-u and signed by the Governor An Act To Provide for the Organization of IT, rigation Districts; Defining Their Powers; Providing for the Levy and Collection of Taxes for District Pur- poses and Creating a Lien Upon the Real Property Thereof for Taxes As sessed and Providing for the Enforce ment ar' Collection of Such Taxes by the Sale Cs Property Assessed" and which provides for the issuance of IT, rigation District Bonds and their sale in the same manner as School District Bonds and secured in the same man. ner by d lien on all the lands of the district
 This Irrigation District Act was amended. improved and extended by an act of the Legislature Of 1917 en- titled An Act to Render Liable to Assessment for Irrigation Purposes Entered and Unentered Public Lands of the United States Within Irrigation District Boundaries to the Extent All thorized by An Act of Congress. ap- proved August II. 1916. entitled An Act to Promote Reclamation of Arid Lands and. finally by the last Legis- lature the several Irrigation Districts were made Municipal Corporations. .
 Multiplied experience has shown that there is no better security in the world than Irrigation District Bonds secured as these are. and the design of House Bill S2. against which the pc tition is directed is to give state recos- milton and really 10 secure state con trol. in the general interest of Irriga- tiontion Districts and their bonded ob- legations. Even so only compara- lively small portion of the Irrigation District Bonds can ever be taken bv the state. but il is thought perhaps enough to give timely and needed en- couragement to enterprises by Munci- pal bodies undertaken for the benefit of the whole state.
 Every section of the state is inter- ested in Irrigation and Reclamation there are tweIty-six irrigation Dis tricts yital!y concerned to have House Bill No. s3 adopted as its provisions will result in incalculable benefit to those sections now arid or but insuf.i- ciently watered.
 In what seems a most wilfully and Intentionally misleading article pub lished as an editorial" in the Gazette, published in Phoenix. but undoubtedly eminating from the headquarters of the Incorporated Mining Interests. the object of House Bill No S3 is falsely stated to be ito enable the promoters Of any PRIVATE irrigation project ...--....-.--.-to give the state their PRI. vATE : per cent bonds and receive in return a like amount of the states ; per cent bonds,'' and in that dis. honestly misleading spirit. and urged and paid for by the same hidden and sinister influences the petition against which the public is warned is being circulated.
 If people carelessly permit them. selves to be hoodwinked into signing this malieiously conceived petition they will be assisting to postpone the adoption-defeat 1t they never can of constructive measure that will 1 aid every section of the State of Ari. zoha. develop and render productive hundreds of thousands of acres of