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Show WHAT A LEHI TAXPAYER TAX-PAYER JjAS TO SAY Edltpr Lohl Sun: Dcnr Sir: Doing a tax payor, thus lntorosted In public affairs, and also a roader of your paper, I would llko n little of your valuablo spaco to mako a fow comments relative to, tho City's business ns conductod by tho prosont officials. Wo havo been enduring nn administration adminis-tration of tho City's buslnoss for about eight yoars by a so-called nonpartisan non-partisan mayor and council and from what I havo obsorvod tho tltlo nonpartisan non-partisan as appllod to our prosont administration Is a mlsnomor, also, thut in so far as tho law is concorned thoy nro violators, both of tho lottor and tho spirit of tho samo. That thoy havo not had tho host in-torest in-torest of tho cltlzons nt heart Is evinced by tho unroasonablo tax levy of tho prosent year when everything Indicated Indi-cated a radical docllno In prices. I hnvo no means nt hand of knowing, but would llko to know, how much thoy will collect this year as against what was colloctod two yeara ago, and nt that tlmo things wero at tholr peak, tho farmers woro getting from fifty to sixty per cent moro for boots, hay, grain, etc., wagos andjovory thing woro higher than tho presont yot I understand thoro was money put away In tho sinking fund whllo at tho presont tlmo, according to report, ovory Cent of tho prosont tax lovy has bcon spent months boforo It could bo collected. Is not that wasto or a misappropriation of funds? What warrant In law did thoy havo to creato tho present dobt for a City Hall and Momorlal Iluldlng? I havo noticed that at other placos an election elec-tion was called for tho purposo of deciding de-ciding such question but our present Mayor and Council, swellod up by tho Importance of tholr position, has boon nnd still appear to bo a .law unto themselves, creating Jobs for thorn-solves, thorn-solves, tholr sons and relatives without with-out regard to tho public's Interest and contrary to the law thoy took oath to observe and enforce Look nt tho tax levy for tho presont year. Look at tho condition of our City strcots and tho resting place of our dead, thoy nlono are a fitting memorial to tho egotistical inefficiency of our present City officers, whllo tho monoy collected col-lected by taxation for the upkeep of streets, etc., was adequate for that purposo but not so used, and the creation of Jobs at an-excesslvo salary for members of tholr clan as Bhown thorn to bo, If not bordering on the criminal nt least to bo tnlntod with a mild form of Insanity. If you can Jutslfy yourselves como out like mon, giving good reasons for your official acts and don't send opt your sattclites to whisper upon tho street corners thnt tho other follow, It eloctod, will pull overythlng up town. Is It not a fact that ono man has as good a right to pull for his cholco or section as you Iiayo? Thon why not conflno yourselves to definite policies and buslnoss Issues? Tho bugaboo of up town and down town feeling has been tho only election Issuo for years now, nnd I think It Is high tlmo that such pottlfoglng bo dono away with and that roal buslnoss problems and Issues bo put beforo tho peoplo for tholr dlclslon. A man or a party whoso causo is Just needs no appeal to pred-Judlco pred-Judlco or tho basor Instinct of mankind. man-kind. dive us bread to eat not stones, nnd substance for support not a shadow, to tho ond that our obligations mny bo mot and Ilquldntod and our tax burden lightened and tho truo principles of sound buslnoss economy bo applied to tho administration of our municipal affairs. TAXPAYER, o |