Show THE IN TAXES I 1 biah farmer cries out against llie outrage the following communication signed by old appeared in tuesday evenings issue of the deseret news I 1 am a farmer I 1 own a farm of twenty acres and a water right of fourteen and a half acres A so called water right is two hours use of a certain portion of water per acre every fourteen days it would take me ahrea days at the present low biage of water to water one acre ofIn cern I 1 hold the water on my farm three hours less than two days so yon can see that it would take me one day and three hours more to water the acre of lacem than the time I 1 hold the water this year I 1 had eight acres of of small grain in six in wheat and two in oats I 1 paid for cutting and binding fifteen dollars in cash bemid s feeding team and men the time they were cutting it not counting anything for the use of a horse on the binder that belonged to me the grain is not threshed yet but I 1 will take sixty bushels of wheat and fifty bushels of oats for my two stacks of graci I 1 have four acres of lucern I 1 have paid or will havo to pay abolt 12 for cutting and raking 3 for help in hauling and I 1 will take 11 tons of lucern for my stack that holds all this years cutting I 1 ibave two small orchards on the place that will cover one and a half acres two fifths of the trees have died for want of water the fruit that is left anybody can have for 30 1 have about two acres of potatoes that may average one third of a stand that I 1 will take bushels for now but by the time I 1 dig them may take 76 bushels and not a very big measure at that this is a correct statement as far as my knowledge and belief goes in regard to my farm for this season let us see what wo have got sixty bushels of wheat fifty bushels of oats that has yet the expense of tLe shing to come out and every farmer knows what that is 30 in fruit and as wo cannot sell it green we will have to b at the expense of drying it eleven tons of lucirn and bushels of potatoes in the ground noa you have one farmers increase for this season I 1 will tell you what I 1 must do with what I 1 have made on my farm this year I 1 must support families of my own for I 1 am a polygamist af course the law will not permit me to live with my own family but I 1 must support them all the same I 1 have an invalid mother to support ind take care of but all that to me is only a pleasure and a double pleasure at that but now comes the tug of war und thatis and the offense of this long preface I 1 must pay my taxes oh dear let me just rest for a moment while I 1 take a breath to be paid in taxes territorial county city school water and other taxes beside 40 per cent chat I 1 hear some b ard of equalization has added to the county and territorial rit orial taxes it scorns to me that tho mormon question is about to be solved at last iukes will do it the gentiles musi take our possessions we cant keep our homes they are too expensive the t progressive ideas of our late legislature and our present city councils will evidently settle the mur mon question as far as utah is con berned I 1 have lived and struggled wit tais people a great many years i 0 hect to live and struggle with theu j a great many more hut I 1 cannot dc j long under my own vine and fe tree the taxes will do it th progressive idea has dono it bonds and sowers and bun corob have dou it the homes of the saints will baa 0 pass away for loy the sheriff t iem in front of tho county courthouse for the granger ib too pour t pay taxes on extravagance and ho without a homo md chis children creeth on the street that is the road we are going can wo will we turn back 0 israel |