Show TAXPAYER DONT YOU KNOW The 10000 man who bled the thousands upon thousands of dollars from the enthusiastic enthu-siastic Liberals last winter for the purpose pur-pose of effecting 111 change in the city government sad to them in his speech at ho Seventh ward when the campaign opened It is a modest cry that the leaders of the Peoples party raise at the present time to tho effect that if the Liberals come into power they 1 vill tax people out of their homes Dont you know that the Liberals of this city own more than onehalf of tho real estate Dont you know that real estate Is visible and easily reached by the tax gatherer Dont you know that If we should tax the Mormon people hea city so heavily that they would nave to sell their homes that the taxation being uniform I we would have to tax our people and compel our own people to sell their homes Do you think that under such circumstances we would be long continued in power Dont you know that Mormons and Gentiles alike would arise and take tho public trust from the hands of hose who had heavily taxed tho people Yes we think that nearly everybody hereabouts knows that ho would kick the present Liberal ring out tomorrow if he had the power The Liberal orator chairman chair-man of the Liberal commttee of Michigan notoriety and for a few weeks a judtre in Utah asked his Liberal friends if they would beso soft as not to kick out the officials who should unreasonably tax the people Tho only question is then whether wheth-er taxes trebled in one year and that too in a year beginning with a surplus of near Iy a quarter of a million in the troasury is an unreasonable increase If not taxes must be doubled again next year in order to provide the same amount of money that will be expended this year If tho exp n ditures for this year are not extravagant 1 the taxes must be doubled next year for there will bo no surplus to begin with If the people think this city is six times better managed this year than last they should be content for the expenses of conducting tho city government will be only six times greater than last year And this does not include sidewalk tax the sewer tax the water main tax or the sprinkling tax And the Liberal beneficiaries of city extravagance ex-travagance are laughing in their sleeve at heir Liberal dupes and asking what thoy are going to do about it We think many Liberals already know what they are going to do |