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Show 'N f THE CITIZEN 4 stitution which gives him authority to do what he has done. The ordinary person probably cannot properly and correctly translate the section. If. this law can be defied, then what kind of laws have we in Utah ? Jensen has shown by his act that he is a dangerous man to have and to hold in office. People can teach their children religion at home. If they want their children taught religion they will send them to a private and religious school. Of course the buildings are only to be used for religious meetings after school hours, but it would not be long before some sanctimonious professor would be feeding the children the religion he thought was best for them. ,We refuse to pay taxes for religious instructors and to religious schools, and it is about time the people were waking up in this state and took a determined stand in this matter. Does Dr. Jensen think for a moment that people will come to Utah to have religion preached to their children in public schools? The commercial club may advertise this state to the ends of the earth in every possible way, but it will never get results with several Dr. Jensens hanging around who place themselves above all law and order. School houses have been used for several years for other purposes than education. The big question is, have the taxpayers paid the expenses in conducting meetings, etc.? No wonder our school bills are so high! It costs money, especially in the winter, to run school houses on extra time. If meetings are held, there must be heat ; if in the evenings, there must be light, and probably overtime for janitor services. Who pays for all this? SMOKE SCREEN. In ten years our public debt has thribled in volume against a very slight increase of population, if any to speak of. The people of Utah owe $52,394,000. Pretty soon the bondholders will dictate the policy of the state. In order to pay off this present debt, every man, woman and child residing in the state would have to dig down for $116 to pay the bill. The bonding business in Utah has been so good that we have at the present time about ten bonding people to one we had ten years ago, and of course these people must live, and in order to live, politicians must issue bonds. If anything, we have been very reckless in our bond issues. For many years it was a matter of business for each incoming administration to issue one or two or more million dollar issues, sometimes in greater amounts, to take care of much needed improvements. Then only part of the money ever gets to the improvements. A great deal of it is generally spent in preliminary plans and arrangements, such as surveying, investigations, etc. American government for the past ten years has been a fashion government. That is, wre have tried and are trying every new idea any reformer puts out. We must follow the style, as it were. Some one started a commission form of government and we had to follow the leader. The taxpayers were told that the new government would reduce taxes but instead, like all other experiments, it has not only increased about ten times in cost over the old council, but it has provided us with the best political machinery in the history of the country. And yet we are not satisfied. We have men in the City and County building right now who dream of the manager form Look out for that of government, another promised reduction. gun it sure is loaded with dynamite. The manager takes over the reins and is the whole show. Not two or three rings, just one ring, and the manager occupies the center. Of course, to make a financial success, the manager is vested with power to hire and fire for the sake of promised efficiency. Well, with one man in power, you good taxpayers can guess the rest. The trouble is that the people never hold, or have not held in the past, officeholders responsible for promises made. Officials have gone ahead and plunged the city, county or state into debt without fan-dangl- ed consulting the people. It is not all the official's fault either, matters have come up involving large sums of money, the general have taken little or no interest, and today the peoplj reaping the benefits of their drowsy attitudes. In fact the holder and politician who could step out on the political platforj tell the natives that he ought to be elected because he has the most money for improvements has appeared to be the favr He is a good spender and thats what the people like, but they ft wake up to the fact that the politician is spending your money not his. In spending money recklessly we have one fine example. not been so long ago when some live wire discovered smoke ct ing out of a Salt Lake chimney. Why not make the smoke ft instead of black? The people are white, why. not the smoke? city commission fell in line with the scheme because it was protL that if the people would spend $15,000 or $20,000 a year for tJJ ito advice, we would have no smoke. We have got the advice, but we still have the smoke. Marl olil the people wonder if those who get paid for this service are note ica cience stricken when they receive their pay checks. It is just such expensive farces as this which drains our trea; The people save their money in order that the politicians Save your money for a rainy day is often spend it for them. gested to the spendthrift, but who can remember the day when a tician refused to deplete the money bag to father some pet sc the smoke nuisance for instance. cit-i- j Ijl MONEY ESCAPES TAXES. There is now before congress an amendment to the federal ta stitution which provides for taxing the income from future issue state and municipal bonds, by the federal government. It also vides that states may tax the incomes from future issues of ment bonds that are owned within their borders. In plain Ek this means that the income derived from bonds, in of being tax-fre- e as in the past, would hereafter be subject to: tion in the same manner as income earned in any way whatsor Commenting on necessity for doing away with in order to encourage the investment and loaning of capital in ductive enterprise and agriculture, E. D. Chassell, secretary rf Ja Farm Mortgage Bankers Association of America, says : Wealthy individuals subject to a federal income tax of I cent to 58 per cent are buying 5 per cent, 5j per cent and 6 per tax-fre- e securities now, at par ; or at a very slight advance. in the possession of a person recer per cent security, an income of a million dollars a year yields him as much net is as a taxable security paying an annual interest rate of 11 pertf For the past five years great difficulty has been cxperieP1 in obtaining capital for railroads, for industrial or development poses, for the reason that the wealthy owners of such capital investments. That conditi laying their wealth away in tax-fre- e dec grow worse and worse as the years go by and each year the for government aid will become stronger and stronger ; securities. lured away into tax-fre- e More than a billion dollars is now diverted every yean bonds. This is a kni e that agriculture and business to tax-fre- e i. both ways. It deprives industry of the needed capital mdit heavier taxes upon agriculture and business. If that lea'; is st? will t by the passage of the amendment, agriculture and busines as never before. gov1 tax-exem- pt tax-exemp- t! o: tax-exem- pt, A mu FEEDING THE LIONS. hit The lions in the zoological gardens must be fed frish stated periods or they perish for lack of nourishment. The same principle applies to the managers of city olitic rcpla municipal machine must have new blocks of voters to i losses. When a city like Seattle, Detroit, or San Francisco takes l |