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Show Why Such Great Interest? nn vn., know vhv mmfi of tho State Board of Equalization arc using money and time belong! yth" Stole of UtSi" 5 - . f.wlr pel measure, the amendment of Article 13 of the State Constitu They are not required 1 j LAV to lobby bills through the Legislature or to participate in a camP, at the expense of t! c taxpayer. Then there must be OV:::.? re sens for their activity. j There ARE other reaso - and . 31 of them are not in the amendment; some of them are OUT of ft? amendment but Ln Me present Constitution. ' J Section 11 of the Constitution contains several of the reasons; and you will not find Section 11 inthe1 amendment. ' ' This section of the Co- 'itution permits County Commissioners and County. Assessors ELECTED to you to handle LOCAL taxation. According to the men who are so busy in support of the amend. inont this is wrong. They believe the State Board of Equalization should handle ALL your taxation. tha" County Assess rs should be APPOINTED by the Board, instead of ELECTED by you; & County Commissiorcrs are not fit to have jurisdiction over local taxes and should, therefore, be' subordinate to the State Board in all tax matters; that the members of the State Board should' continue to be APPOINTED, not elected, that members of the Board should have LARGER . i. ARIES; and Section 11 must be repealed before all these things can be accomplished. J These are some of the reasons why the Board is so greatly inferos od. The Board protests its anxiety to inform the public. Then ask it to give you the exact language of the official reports in which these changes are recommended. If the Board wilL not give it to you, WE WILL. The Board and its friends have already given FOUR different reasons for their '.treat desire to haveDlF. FERING rates of taxation on various clashes of property. Don't you believe it would have been a ilood way to inform the public" if they had put tho reasons into the amendment itself? Wouldn't you like to know JUST WHAT YOU ARE VOTING ON ? The Board manifests distress because mines are being taxed on the same basis as other property. It complains that the mines are not paying as much taxes as they would be if they were paying more taxes. . , But has the Board told you why it is collecting from you for STATE PURPOSES ALONE $518,000 MORE this year than last? Where docs this extra money go? It is MORE MONEY than triple tax-ation tax-ation of mine proceeds would have yielded the State this year; more than twice as much. Why was not that $518,000 used to reduce taxes on the homes, farms, etc., about which the Board says it is so solicitous? Is part of it to be used for the further "information of the public?" Do you wish lower taxes on homes, farms and other property? Then don't give OFFICEHOLDERS any MORE money to SPEND, no matter where it comes from; even though it comes from mines. You don't reform a spendthrift by INCREASING HIS ALLOWANCE. You must CUT IT DOWN. Don't let them tell you they can't reduce your taxes without raising somebody else, because IT IS NOT TRUE. Make your public officers, high and low, WORK AT THEIR JOBS, instead ol junketing all over the country at your expense: make them discharge their USELESS HELP, who fatten on YOUR MONEY; make them get you a day's WORK for a day's wage when they spend public funds; make them OBEY THE LAW and observe their OATHS OF OFFICE. You will never get ANYBODY'S taxes REDUCED by giving the officeholders MORE TAXING POWER. This amendment may get THEM more money; it will not SAVE any for,you. If they really wished to reduce your taxes, they could have done so long ago. And they haven't done it. The Constitution is your Safeguard. YTIh "ATfY' i5H F DONT LET THEM TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU ! 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Thornton, Thomas J- " " " Chlpman kR nBMMattWiBMgMaaaiBnaaMMaBMMMaBtwTrMiwiTirgwinMMMiMM ! ,. ,,. " " ' w""""" ' , I ' POTATOES Zi WANTED I We are loading car, at American Fork, Lehi and Pleasant Grove. Get in touch with our . representative, JOHN F. CLARK. I WILL PAY SPOT GASH f THE Wm. M. ROYLANCE CO. ml v |