Show C it Ii i ii I I I MORE TAXES t Just Juat a at 5 a matter of course e th the t an announcement comes from from the tb city elLy elt ad administration administration ministration that an additional mill mID will wUI he If b added to the tb th tax rate this thin year No Ne 1 apologies no explanation no particular reason for the Increase Iner la Is offered the F i administration needs the money and andI I that is I all the taxpayer need know i f about it At the tile rI k of o feeing being unduly i Inquisitive The Herald would like some I line ime un of th the American party JJ ty leaders adera in hi the council to reconcile this an announcement announcement announcement with the promise premIa made madeI I j J to the public when the last bond issue i I was W submitted for approval At A t that time Um the voters were assured that in case ca the bonds were authorized i I there would mould b be no ne need d for tor a raise In Inthe IntOe 4 I the tOe tax rate that the tho bond boDd money mOM I I would clear up all outstanding indebtedness edness on account of Improvements ts and leave an ample balance to cover the I program of improvements then contemplated content f plated There was no suggestion au then 1 that another mill mitt another tH 0 W or orr r more would be added to the burden of F 4 II II 4 I p taxpayers this year on the contrary I the chief argument in favor of oC the b bond bondI nd I 1 issue lauf was the promise that the fiat Lt of improvements would thus thui be distributed I J over a aeries erlea of years Instead of being exacted in a lump sum from rom the already overburdened taxpayers Instead of or keeping this thia promise Ing in good g od faith the Americans Amerlean have raised taxes tax in iery direction Water Vater rates t have been Melt increased special I taxes the moi obnoxious I of burdens borden bard bardon t on business enterprise have been fn hi hiI I J and multiplied III Ii ed an effort was waa made in the th legislature II to shift the cost ceci of the cit city s share hate of improvements onto the property owners and now omen come the flat flut announcement of a aL L i straight of or an additional mill In ill I Either th heads of ot the thel l iJ administrate have deliberately nile mIa misrepresented 1 i i ii represented their intentions intention or else elee they 1 4 have been guilty of oC unpardonable Ig Ignorance Ignorance Ignorance norance of their thell own financial affairs Until thi week neek there lias haa ha been a aular reg regular l ular raid on the treasury by employee T getting setting their salaries raised The few I who came late are told now they the can cannot cannot canI I not have hae an Increase but the and their ilk who were forehanded are serene ne In the know knowledge ledge that they the got get getto gotI I to the pie counter before the prospect In t i i of a famine was wat w discovered N iN I A purely decorative feature of ot the tM Wt sit situation i is the failure of the city dt auditor to furnish any information to the public ii that will shed light on the actual Retool con condition conI I of the treasury His H January i statement issued this thie month tells as I 1 i little as a blank page would of the t e truth r I in the case eue and It may ma well be doubted I whether Ms hill hi books or his office omee force Coree J rould unfold any an better information If It i it were not nt a I grave grue matter for the pub publIc m Ac lie the blind groping of oC the adminis administration I after knowledge of It Its o own on n buM busi business ness n ne would V hc h a 11 huge h e joke and this I q too after tl tIp t e nt ity has paid Itt t to tv t 4 j special auditors for installing a 8 I tem r that would Ull daily dail what the th city cli dI owed oro what bat it nad had in assets ast and nd whet what hat L t Its future in mande would be bt beIn beIn In the meantime the west W lIt side sewer failure promises a n huge expense not originally and the City t t treek was na a to take care caret re t of t the th Tun 1 has lias ha been abandoned 4 i j i by Its t r Lilli the it Ry vill HI tIt have I to another to get et the he work dora doru dOT dOTIn doraI I In ther r anxiety to he have a modern modem t dh Ity it the te ri l of t salt Halt alt Lal Laj haw have Ii L or r and nn cheerfully I I the tb mone with which h to make them Thy They h have me e condoned reckless reck ex cx extravagance 1 stood for the extraordinary t ri ries s pai paid favored au authorised ii I large bond issues and other otherwise otherwise I wise submitted to heavy impositions r This Thill last lut announcement is about the u limit If the finances of the city elty had been managed IDan M carefully it is probable the administration might haw have kept its ita promise to hold down the tax 4 rate but bur thi th Management has been J reckless th on has rot rt L t Kept faith fait u iI t j It n ha haq no iv ip 11 i lention c K g faith fath di |