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Executive O1flce, SGaCe House
Phoenix, Arizona, August 10, 1881
Dear Senator Crenshaw:
''I have read with much inter
est your letter of August 10Th. ]
agree with the principles which
you advocate for relieving unem-
ployment, but some of your details
would necessitate revision.
II 90 not agree that the ma
chinery of the Highway Depart
ment should be housed in order to
do the work by hand. That ma
chnery as used does not necessar-
lily mean that less men could be
employed. We could use the ma
chinery, employ just as many men,
and the State would receive a cor
respondingly greater amount of
road work for the same money I
do not think that we would have
to resort to obsolete methods of
highway construction in order to
give our people employment. This
would not be necessary and it would
not be favorable to the State.
''The bond issue plan would ne
ceSsitate constitutional amend
ment because of our constitutional
limitations on the amount of bonds
which the State can issue.
"I agree that days pay or force
account work should be used. We
now have a law that Arizona labor
must be employed. AS you prob
ably know I initiated negotiations
with the United States Bureau of
Public Roads which resulted last
spring in this department for the
first time agreeing that we could
discriminate on highway work where
federal funds were used in favor
of Arizona citizen labor Our law
now specifies that al highway
workers must be bona fide citizens
of Arizona of at least one years
continuous residence.
IT believe that unemployment is
national problem, and should be
met in national way by the fed
eral government. The states and
Their subdivisions are handicapped
by financial and geographical linn
itations. They can cooperate of
course, but they cannot individual
ly solve the problem.
"I think that the President of
the United States long ere this
should have called Congress into
special session to inaugurate huge
program OF highway construction,
water ways improvements, public
buildings and other internal i'm
provements This, if necessary,
could be financed by government
bonds the same as the Liberty
Bonds issue was made. The fed
eral government and the federal
government alone has sufficient
financial credit to handle the situ-
alton fully and completely. 1t is
far beyond the ability of the states
to handle in my opinion.
"I think it would be infinitely
better for Congress to appropriate
money for public works to relieve
unemployment than to face the
situation which I see confronting
our country this winter when the
hardsh.ps Of cold weather are add
ed to the pangs of hunger for mil
lions of our citizens.
"Our charity organizations are
completely broken down in attempt
ing to handle the situation It is
far beyond their capacities for
meeting.
"I believe further that one of the
first acts of Congress should be to
place a proh:bitive tariff on for
eign copper, cotton, oil and asbes-
tos entering this country. This leg
islation alone would restore the
market for these basic products to
a profitable level and give employ
ment to hundreds of thousands of
our people. I do not think that a
single pound of these staples should
be imported into the United States,
so long as our domestic producers
are faced with a market for their
products that is below the cost of
production.
with kind regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
GEO. w. P. HUNT,
Governor