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Show - T EDITORIAL II. C. IlICKS EDITOR The Fall of Antwerp Thfrfl is indeed a pathetic side, to the fall nf Antwerp. Her history is full of scenes de- -' picting the sorrow and misfortune that have' Jiefallen her. The justiee of her defense in the recent siege was never more fully established, and a more, heroic effort was never made to defend the beautiful city against the invader.. Notwithstanding the fact that her fortifica-tion-s are 'arnorigthemost- - extensive- - in- - Hie world, they were inadequate to withstand u onslaughts of modern artillery. Antwerp is a town of great activity, and Jt& .superb quays built by Napoleon I., when it formed a prominent part of his colossal em. pire are, in times of peace, crowded with TUESDAY OCT. 13 Utah Countys Fish Hatchery IS THIS EQUAL TAXATION? . t- -. Two years ago the Democrats put into their platform thefoIlowiffgpiankr efficient titled to know of the unequal-assessme- aa.,mn tinned nt Senator Smoot has never been in the spoilsmans class. lie has been very careful as to the expenditure of public funds, and where apportionments, as the case of public buildings, have been alloted the State, he has not been one to spend the entire" amount in the neighborhood of his home. In one neighboring state, nearly went in the home -- the .entire, apportionment town of the senator,- - and a public building with work on i n the Democratic platform.) Unequal Assessment During the past two years hundreds of We- - especially condemn the fruitgrowers, farmers and business men have method and practice of making failed to receive profits on either farm or the assessment of property, in the businessbut have been forced to pay higher as being loose and fla- . county taxes-than atany.timeiiLthe history of Utah grant and not tending tbequally Write trainings xrasrthe Tesnltr-Sena- tor county. assess all properties. The poor Smoot has stood for public buildings throughman" along with persons of ordiCounty Commissioners Responsible out the entire state.. .Spanish Forks gets a new nary means bearing a greater proThe county commissioners were absolutFederal building, soon to commence, on the portion of tbe hurderva oftaxa ely responsible for the lowering of these taxes... score of that policy, and this year a further tion than that of the men and cor-o-f They are absoutely responsible "for the. raise great opportionment goes to Springville, .Utah, wealth. We 100 per cent in taxes in many great from of to, 50, for a fish hatchery. BtuLserytLasftre TsMps aosoiutely-responsib- le pledge our hOminee f or county assections " of are of 'Bonapartes gigantic plans and indefatigThey "'"Senators' askf or proper allotments iirthe sessor to personally supervise the 1 for 20 per cent raise on farm propable industry! In describing Antwerp, a not-- various appropriation- bills,' and a hard fight assessment.of all property and ed writer sys:No--eit- y erty, for they have failed to consult with the; had iq all Christendom 7 made when the appropriation for the make an equal and equitable asstate board of equalization before passing on could equal Antwerp in the Sixteenth century Interior DepartinenWvas before" the Senate.. sessment of all properties. the levies for the eoming year. Letters writin wealth and splendor. Iler merchants lived Hatcheries were not included in the list, as the " in' almost 'regar luxury) within her massive - It was ten to the county qler$?i:'''jjig the present adupon this plank that the Demogovernment Is fairlywell 'supplied with fish ministration by state officials on Shatters warehouses were precious goods from almost crats caught many voters two 'years ago, as hatcheries both east and west but somehow the ' purely business have gone for months with- cathedral,- palacea,. thc-..f armer,, andbusiness ,m an were already every landandher-super- b intermountain country has not been taken care and public buildings enriched with noble ouTrepIy'. They' h a ve had but one source of taxed as much as they thought they could oFlh tharrega'rd7''F6r'year8' SenafoF Smoor" stand.--Th- e - works of art, made her the marvel of the consultation, thatof the Democratic county promise of reduced taxation was has regarded this as a mistake and has labored ' committee. music to the ear, and they decided to take a ? world. to the end that some suitable hatchery be ; hard J hafice- .- f Do But, alas, when did sot great a treasure of Mr. : this kind want Taxpayer you . located in this state as the center of the j ' ever long escape the olutches of the despoiler t The Reduction Came? management to continue? If you do not Region. Finally success crooned his Thjt Spaniards coveted this goodly city, and Sanction the and continued presept hightaxes efforts, put he had a hard fight withthe comThe , reduction came, but only ill spo laid upon it the same cruel hand that proved netid but- - to vote for management poor you mittee having the matter in hand in the House, A few favored sons of Democracy had great a curse to all their colonies in the New World. James II. Gardner, and J, F. Bringhurst. and twice the fish hatchery item was cut out m cause .to rejoice, among them our wealthy and In the capture of Antwerp, by the Spanish men Both are and Both true. men tried are, the lower wing of the national g "Jesse Knight. Uncle in their , armyalmost as many 'living beings were de- prosperouscijtj?en, successful lives and business. private The first year the assessor acted in accordmachinery. The senior senator persistently James IIGardner has been tried in the office stroyed as there had been statues ruined in the stayed at his task and tlje appropriation was ance with the plank in the platform, the build- memorabe image breaking of ten years beof commissioner and his record was one of - made. . ings and improvements of tfie Knight Woolen fore. At that time the Spanish soldiers, drunk clean with business in but one view, object Mills were reduced from $12,000 to $5000, a . Springville easily won over all competitors with wine and bloodshed, cast off even the sem; to serve the people. J. R Bringhurst has been CO when the site was to be selected, for it reduction of $7000, or approximately per blance of humanity and played the part of known all his life for frugality and thrift cent. Another reduction of $G500 was made on advantages in fish culture that cannot defiends. The splendid city was well nigh with spendid business judgment. be a of excelled. total The senator may not have had $13,personal property, making itroyedM,rSix...millifln,jdollar9 worth of prop- in mind when working for the fish They Are Facing Defeat of 1012. On Springville erty was burned 'and five hundred marble the assessor's blotter the following notation The Democrats realize that they are facing 'niaTchrryTTiutTircerfamrdrd'rainrihf'great . MX"reM to'blaCkened mins..' Reduced temporarily on account of " fish industry-i- n mind in this state and the inter- - - . appears: defeat ignominious defeat. They are trying The object of these terrible atroeities was gold mountain region, and through the hatchery lo-inability to realize outlay in excess of mainto appeal to the people of Provo as to whether and to obtain it almost inconceivable cruelties A. of S. I. order cated in our neighboring city great good trill tenance,' by or not Provo should have a commissioner. We were committed.' , result. Federal supervision will help regulate . of Provo are not entirely devoid of justice. Did You Get Yours? In the whole history of mankind there our streams, and the right kinds of fish will be Every city, in Utah county has the right to is no sadder and more awful picture than that Mr. Farmer and Business Man: Did you planted. In a few years will grow meat of a aspire to . this honor. For years our close of the decline and wretchedness of this get a reduction on your taxes because you did choice kind that will help equalize the high neighbor, Springville, has not been given the artistic city under the not realize a, profit on your orchard, farm or , , , price of living, and put upon our tables fresh to - rule of Spain.- - In 15G8 Antwerp had a popula- VlSiiSurrrninrBncncctionoirtto-Krigfc- t fish. The fishshipped fromthe eoastyespeeial treatment as Provo. For many years Provo tion of 125,000. Since then until recently a Woolen Mills, for we are as anxious to see the ly in the warm season of the year, are not the series of misfortunes, including wars, political" has. held mills succeed "as anybody in the city; but we Let, it go elsewhere for - best.'- ... viscissitudes, revolutions and unfortunate mar-itim- e feel that the taxpayers of Utah county are en- once. Provo will not be hurt. In the streams of interthe supplying decrees, has kept it from recovering .its mountain region, much labor will result to the . former prosperity. Prior to the recent siege, city haring the hatchery besides the 'original the Neu) Is ? Action however, it was rapidly regaining its lost foroutlay in the erection of the houses for the tunes and a half century more of peace would .Since the United States is not engaged From the residents of Goshrii, Santaquin It will he a plant that will call for hatchery. ""baveiriven""if""a "chance"to'haveregarnedits-positioin wthTAmencaneIeWTirHdseTydiSru of the leading maritime city.- will pass but there will be Borne thousands of inize the war taxes which are about to" be imAnd now; this beautiful city is, again bedollars in bill for the care ot posed by Congress. sieged and much of the work of centuries dethe Springville fish hatchery. It is a great There is no chance that the taxes will stroyed. are re- asset for Utah county that has come to it in still intact, the spire of which has held the be approved by the people in a cloud of paported and our county attorney district attor the wise statesmanship of her distinguished of tha world for .centuries ancLwell triotism. Marching troops will not distract ney andcounty sheriff have shown absolutely senator. Springville jwill certainlynot deserves the eulogy of Napoleon," who comthe attention of the voters. Bands will not ,,8oon., no disposition to prosecute tie law breakers this favor. to be a of lace. means forget It it of to In it drown who to the those much that muni- piece, Michelin, pared present protests JThe county attorney of Juab county ha been hundred are a are pinched by the taxes. 7 bells, the smallest of which is eipality. appealed to and his work haB been thorough ' 16 inches in circumference, the weigh-o, largest The people will want to know why they and efficient. , ing about eight tons, and from, these there are being taxed. They will want to know A short time ago the local officers were floats out upon the air a combination pf meWho whether such ,taxes are necessary and whether called to Santaquin to assist in the control of lodious sounds scarcely surpassed iq 'Europe. they might not have been avoided by the praccases of delinquency. Young girls had been Farmers today are put to their wits ends It is hard to realize that this graceful tower tice of a little economy since the Democratic to know how to keep taken from that neighborhood early in the theyoung men in the was standing in peaceful beauty through , all party came into power. and all out The ' country, evening kept night boys were rfihr dreadful, Bernes ,of, :ra rnagetwh ieh have If thcre were any real, issues .whieb .in:- - prosecuted in Juab county and eanvictedJThe. abla to solve the.prob-- . tkakita, more jmand yet it must be solved oraTfew years will see the farms almost - completely ' - depopulated... f streets below, his att&ks on) Senator Smoot) said that he economy. And the nation is dependent upon the Today Antwerp is again in a sad plight knew 4t no law under which they could be The tariff for revenue only has proved farms. and her citizens are fleeing to foreign lands, prosecuted. It was plainly shown to him that a failure from the standpoint of a revenue Young men are leaving the farms day by heartstricken, penniless and hungry. Civilithe boys had contributed to the delinquency of Before war the had producer. began imports is again torn asunder and the greed for day because the lift is too dull for them. - - A zation "'increased amazingly but the revenue had fallen . the girls kept on the public highways all night power 6nd blood, and all the accompanying They are intelligent ambitious, full long. Finally 'the district attorney admitted off! . sorrow and destruction that follows war is and spirits, and crave a more active career. that they could he prosecuted, but the people If the new tariff cannot be defended again inflicted upon an innocent people who of Santaquin have appealed in vain for such They rush to the cities in the belief that as a revenue producer, its acceptance byany chose honor and destruction rather than fortune awaits them there. But ninety-nin- e practices to be stopped but the officers have ' f portion of the public is doubtful. Certainly slaverr. , out of every tundred become turned upon them a deaf ear. -- it cannot be shown simple cogs in the reduced the high - Srcat commercial wheel, making barely enough - Another case. of flagrant of living. Its effect on business and em is "cost negfect reportTheres tremendous relief in the statement, to keep soul and body together ed from Eureka where,' it is caimed, Sheriff and nevet issue an is the in ployment already congresof a woman writer that the American govern-men- t a dollar. saving Henroid has chickens stolen from Utah county sional 'campaign. neednt worry about an army that every : .There 1 a on storage for weeks awaiting the action of the remedy somewhere some means .. Jfy bringing forward a plan for war American girl over 15 is practiced in the use of ' exists Utah for keeping our young men on certainly county officers, but no action has been taxes, at a time when the United States is at powder, and a eall to arms is all she wants. the where taken the nation needs them. and .the farms, chickens will soon be unfit ' for t 0 . peace, the Democratic 0 party deliberately fo-- . . evidence. 7 Who can dig it out? j cuscs attention upon extravagance nd the fail- , . With the donkey andthe bull moose ram-4- , o These are some of oothe acts of ureof tho tariff for rcvenueonly,Jt suggests .efficiency paging around, the innocent bystander runs a tho present, administration. Affliction never? comes singly, This time an And the reason the . asto inquiry of risk on. .people,, great being stepped " do not need that kintf ofervice. General have not been practised and why the tariff for Carranza wants to make a tour of the OOO ' o o I United revenue only has not produced the revepue, States. ' Yep! YouJetl peace is' in right in - o oo- America sept a whole day praying for Mexico when the last dog is hung. ' Majjy of these Issues might "have been OO O - overlooked by the public if they had been left When money eomes easy it often doesn t peace, and the pesky thing lost itself in the melee the next day. " Our office devil positively r makc. , th as abstract problems but with a large protarry long. statement that a widow car talk to a grown portion of the public feeling the pinch in' the man while a girl just simply primps and' poeket-boo- k some original thinking will be. Sorae wives never save what theydi&ve and Call it, the international slaughter S done tbe Post. giggles. at others never have anything to save. polls. 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