Show wherein he lie the editor s column on things tint thit okame or Din delme him i while the county commissio neris were trying to cut the tax levy to five give the people a little relief the city council and both school boards tacked on a hulo little more burden it do the people of price much good to have the county commissioners reduce the tax levy when the city council and two school boards boost the levies for their use the green river dispatch says carao cargo tite tito ore is being belag mined twelve miles from green river that brings in the denver market 1000 per ton that beats a gold mine about ag to 1 sugar prices advanced a hundred in two days last week as the result of war the housewife who has not enough sugar to put up her fruit will no doubt agree with general shermans definition of war some of those chamber of commerce people who were afraid of offending the city council by asking that body to resume operation of the light plant have bave no such scruples when it comes to telling the county commissioners what to do eh the news believes if the county commissioners have wasted any money at all it was in hiring deputies for certain county officials who spend more ore of their time in traveling and looking after private business than that in the service of the county attorney 0 C nelson should be fired out of the lawyers union called the bar association he turned back into the county treasury that was appropriated to prosecute the case against sheriff kelter which I 1 b vory unethical the news is told sixty two of the seventysix seventy six tax payers who voted on tho question of bonding green river for an electric light and power plant in favor of ho the bonds it is to be hoped that when the plant is bu lt it the taxpayers will have too much civic pride to give givs it away e 11 the lining of a chauffeur some ten days since for speeding within the city limits has not stopped this dangerous practice as drivers of both autos and motorcycles fracture the 15 mile limit daily and a number of chauffeurs drive at night without lights which is unlawful if the commissioners wasted the money they spent in prosecuting lawbreakers do you call it when the city council goes to the supreme court MI public expense to ei evade ade complying with a law regarding the leasing of publicly owned utilities like the light plant but that is a horse of another color it costs tho the ers era 5 mills on the dollar to support the county high school while the general levy for county purposes is limited by law to 5 milk mills out of this 5 mills the corn com missioner missi must pay salaries keep up the roads and meet a dozen and one ono other expenses including a por tion of the tho district court costs the federal government has a commission at work investigating charges that tho the anaconda copper mining company controls the courts of butte mont the charges were nvere made by a former city attorney who says the company is in the habit of finding good positions for judges after they leave tho the bench the utah fuel company way not actually control the courts of utah but it has been known to giro give a job to at least one district judge after he had left the bench beach the tendency to make corporations t ons pay a more equitable proportion of the taxes necessary to run city county and national governments is becoming more pronounced just last week the commissioners of salt lake county upheld the county assessor asse sor in raising the assessment of the bingham garfield railroad notwithstanding the owners of the road protested the assessment it appears that carbon is not the only county in utah in which the corporations hate to pay their share of the taxes some of those european smart alech alecks who sneered at president wil ison sons ss watching and waiting policy in the mexican Alex ican muddle will III probably wish before they get through with their war that they had done a little watching and waiting before plunging their countries into a war that will cripple them for 50 years to come it is easy enough to start a war but general sherman far wron arons when he said war is hell just keep your eyes on woodrow wilson and see if he show better judgment all along than bis his critics have shown warrants issued by their predecessor predecessors I 1 to tho the amount of they have without raising taxes built more roads during the first 3 ear of their administration than were ever built in calbon county in a year without the tho issuance of bonds in addition to tho the money thea the collected and turned over to the state roid road commission under the 5 mill levy for last year they also allowed several thousand dollars of county funds to be expended on roads by the state road commission if this were all tho the present county y commissioners had bad done the new news believes they should be forgiven if they had thrown the they are accused of wasting ing into the river but they did not waste the money and this is IF not all they have done by making the coal companies pay a more equitable tax on their town sites they have added almost 00 to the valuation of the county and expected by this means to bo be able to reduce the levies considerably but were partially prevented from so doing by the state board of equalization reducing tho the valuation on the output of thi thoi mines TT the if it ee commissioners did their part but those higher up undid it for them at the beginning of the term of the present board jan 1 1913 county warrants were ere selling at 60 to on the dollar any bank in carbon county will now pay cents on the dollar for any issued by randolph sharp and hamilton the news is mighty proud of the record made by commissioners randolp sharp and hamilton and this his ie in the only reason it has gone to the be trouble of noticing the attack made by the official organ ot of the law break ers of carbon county believing lieving Ee that all laws on the statutes should either be enforced or repealed the commissioners have themselves attempted to keep within the law and they have spent some public money in trying to make other people respect the laws if the people of carbon county do not want the laws enforced let them say so at the november election by defeating the progressive ticket for real all believe in law enforcement equal opportunity to all and special privileges to none the advocate under its present bandi handicap cap of gang control does not approve of law enforcement in all cases which may account for its hostility to three of the best commissioners carbon county ever had the news will have more to say during the tho camp campaign dign concerning the record of the present board and it is quite probable that before the campaign is over the advocate editors will be sick and tired of quoting figures according to an article in the green river dispatch the people of that section of emery county are well pleased with the services rendered by farm demonstrator stewart the sentiment ia in carbon county ilso the news learns however that several disgruntled emery county politicians are trying boget to get mr stewards stewarts scalp claiming he has spends too much time is in carbon coudry to offset this claim mr stewart stewarts records show that he spends more time in emery than in carbon soui county aty biting you gentlemen already european nations are taking up volunteer collections to take tako care of their poor and the war has ha just Is it possible this war was started to reduce the population that is likely to be tho the only benefit to the working people to accrue a from the war and those who survive will have to pay the taxes |