Show I T SEDUCE TIlE RATE h Without doubt tho Collection of the city > tix s at thO rate and valuation placed on property by the city assessor is going to create a grave amount of hardship if not of distress ThIsis a matter that should be looked at from no partisan standpoint as the burden will fall alike upon Liberal People and Workingmen We have heard r during tho past fovda > s of a wide spread movement to put in a petition to the city council praying that the rate of assessment assess-ment be reduced from 4 to 2M mills We learn also that wherever tho subject has been mentioned it has met with hearty support from all classes of citizens Liberals as well as People The unanimous sentiment seemed to be that 135000 is a sufficient revenue from taxes and that would be the figure if tho rate were placed at 2X mills It is 55OOO more than the city received from taxes lastS last-S year and with the large sums that will comeinfrom other sources it should be ample for the citys needs if only it is economical S eco-nomical expended Wo hope the petition peti-tion vill grow and boom even as the celebrated cele-brated petition against selling the waterworks water-works grew and boomed and if such an expression of the desires of property owners goes in to the council they will bd no more apt to disregard it than they did the ether |