Arizona republican., 1921-12-17
Resolutions Adopted At The Close Yesterday Of
 Industrial Conference

any dams for any purposes in the state of Arizona on the Colorado river it be embodied as an underlying prin- ciple that the present and future needs of the state be guaranteed to it under such rules and regulations as will protect the people in service to be rendered and charges to be made for any power developed.
 We further recommend that all feasible proposed irrigation projects within the state receive the help and support of this organization.
 Agriculture and Live Stock
 That the people of Arizona and America will be benefited by con- serving the agricultural and live stock industries; that the successful production of agricultural and live stock products depends upon the proper financing and distribution of such products; that we sympathize with the farmers~and live stock men of Arizona and of the nation in their efforts to affect business organiza- tions for cooperative marketing of various agricultural products and live stock;
 And we recommend to the other business interests here represented that they lend their aid in bringing about a condition of cooperative busi- ness organization of agriculturists and livestock growers, to the end that all industries in the state and in the nation may be benefited and upheld by a prosperous. productive and con- tented agricultural population.
 Transportation
 Arizona is sui ering under high railroad freight rates, some of which are discriminatory m character, and the railroads, being one of the state s large industries, should cooperate with us in seeing that such rates are materially lowered and discrimina- tions removed, to the end that the producer be given fair treatment and opportunity to compete with pro- ducers of like products going to mar ket from other states and so the Arizona merchant may be able to give to Arizona consumers the benefit of such reduction.
 Taxation and Economy in Govern
 ment
 The people of this state, almost without exception, feel that the bur den of taxation to be borne by them and by the states industries Is, if not restrained, going to become unbear- able. For this condition we are our selves in considerable degree to blame, for sufficient attention to ex- peuditures of public money has not been given by the people. We too frequently forget that our state is sparsely settled and that the same item of expense borne by one of the older states is almost impossible to be borne by us.
 We, therefore, recommend that towns, cities. counties and state work under a closely compiled and economical budget system;
 That when an appropriation Is made, expenditures be kept within such appropriation;
 That great care be taken in de- termining the necessity of new com missions or boards, and that useless or duplicating ones be abolished; That an honest days work be re- 1 quired of those holding official posi- tion, and that the utmost economy having in view the needs of and wha, the people can fairly bear, be prac- ticed by those having in charge the l expenditure of public moneys: 1 And we hereby riedge ourselves | that hereafter we will. as an organi- zation and in our individual cap-