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Show LOW. 01 HIGH TAXATION- -WHICH T K.,r .A. r a .iatrr of a "fry ti.e alfdr.-, and iiu.tiK.-.f thw l- ir Q ii.iv.; Ixjt-ti man i-'d i-- -"'d ecinoiuieallv that mid. r -eireimutan-eolt.-n v.-ry adv.-r-f ;H,-penty ha, i.noru th.i k-pt puv with iM-r.a..c ot IpoiAd-iUon; wt.ilo t:.x.ti..n ba b-t-n Lj low a- lu-v.-r to b 'V l e.n a bur-'d.-n iifon In.: '' It b.is been nliii no d. grtr of pride that the people peo-ple oi Utah have again and again pointetl to tiit U-t that the Territory wafl without debt, while taxation was so light; and that the honoty of it? TerriUjnal officer-! km idovc suspicion. sus-picion. Fur a few year pa.-t in (act, 1 aimo.-t ever since tho carpet-bag cle-j cle-j ment in the South gained cupn niiey 1 over tho once Confederate St. and were able to tleccc those war-worn, struggling and serui-niintd common weiiLihrt, enriching themselves and placing burdens of debt upon the al most beggared tax-paycra, the same :liwd in this Territory' has struggled , hard to securo a like unenviable but money-spinning position. How itd leaders have .Labored and plottctl aud rfchemei to obtain control of the Territorial finances ! How they have yearned to have the chance of .-ticking n good-sized fork borrowed, of course--into the tk'ah-iobi of Utah, that tho choicest parts and tit-bits might be theirs! This "13 all known well enough; for hac they not trial wriU of v"u farraitl-j : exhausted the ability of obliging courts; tried oppo-oilion oppo-oilion tickets; fought uirsuccesfid election lainpuigus; got cxtra-politico-liberalieo-eoiiimiltees to lie-eoinpliah lie-eoinpliah something; contested elections, elec-tions, and done even thing that the inventive genius ot 'the circular combination com-bination could devise to get at the , Territorial pocket with a chance to linger the greenbacks which the taxpayers tax-payers would have to furnish 1 Nay, thiiy hiive- even gone so far as to join bands with a portion of the "beastly Murinous," as they have been pleased so often to designate thoin, hoping by splitting the dominant party to, by and b; , walk IuUj the treasury and have a chance to til! it, plethorically, by ileeeing the tax-payers, and till tb.cir ovwi carpet "incumbrances" by depleting it! The way thio little game would bo commenced would be by shouting "Progress 1 " Fine word, " Progress Pro-gress 1" Means almost anything you want, and covers a multitude of "steals." Under ttii.s potent talisman New York was robK-d of twenty millions mil-lions in a -diorl time. And covered by the same magic "cry" tho District ring at Washington. K C, contrived in a much shorter time to pocket a few millions at the expense of the country. The carpel bag element in Utah is the same. "Liberals."' "Progress 1" Anything that will give them a chance at taxing the people and manipulating the taxes. How long would our present careful management of thc Territorial or municipal finances continue- w cretins cre-tins clas.-i to obtain control of the Territory: Ter-ritory: And bow long would it be before be-fore our taxes would become ns heavy as those which press upon our neigh-bora neigh-bora in Nevada? This is the real issue in the approaching ap-proaching election, as m thoso for the past four or live years. It is a question of whether the farmer, tho miner, the furnace owner, and the holder of real estate shall couUnuo to enjoy the present iow fixation, or attempt to place in otllco men whose sole aim is to make a tat thing out of the richest and most prosperous of the Territories. A very little rellec-tion rellec-tion on tho purt of thinking men should show this so clearly that argument argu-ment would be unnecessary; imd it also should prompt ever- honest man who desires prosperity at home and a j lound commercial representation 'abroad, to sustain tliat party that has so bug and so weil eculroilod the financial atlairs of the Territory, aud vote for tho "Peoplu's Ticket" at the! ensuing election. 1 |