| Show filanc TO LIE ia b democrats juggle to hake a i financial showing I 1 t WASTE MORE EACH fear 1 a 4 I 1 efforts of tho the supporters ot of the present administration to show a bene 4 fit to the ali people ja in increasing its burdan how tho the valuation i iras has beon lowered to delude while the lory levy has been constantly ithac 7 izea explanation in the herald that esplain i ak mindful of the oll saw baw about the pos 1 of 0 proving anything with fi 11 g ures democratic orators sad and the dem organ orean have been endeavoring to prove tho the binand In ancial ill competency ot of ithe the present county government to adi minister its affairs probably the ef el bort tort would never neier have been made had not the ewe of 0 confusing con the mind w with ith figures been token taken into consider 1 adom atlo i t they have been baen a that the I 1 lowering of the valuation of 0 the he county F has been to the taxpayers 0 r s 1 I with a valuation ution lowered successive successively siv 0 1 y durins during each of the two years of 0 demo 1 county rule the tax levy h has as been increased in or correspondingly 0 I ida ic vahen to raise the revenue needed in 1 p g S when a republican administration was in power a levy 0 of 3 mills for or county purposes was ta made realizing i on a the then valuation in 1857 th the prevent pres nt democratic board was waa in I 1 power it cut the valuation Atlon upward of 0 and the levy cry half hajt a I 1 duill result the Mx taxpayer payers were called upon for or for county pur I 1 poses an increase ot of over the actual money raised the preceding HM year this year there has been another bin big reduction in the valuation it Is now n ow cut but the levy le Is again aga in shot hot upward inward thim tn 3 time it I 1 13 a whole mill that oat has been added to tho the taxpayers burden so that in 1893 under democratic rule the county ta tax x Is 13 just jurt one halt half larger than two years ago a in ISM when republican officials the countes coun tys affair the increased tax in spite of the lowered vo I 1 luIon causes due es an increase in the t woney 1 to be taken from the peoples pockets bets this year they must pay cay 1671 to be used for or county expenses expanses an Inc increase Tease of 0 nearly LS as compared with or bom as compared with the last year of republic administration democratic orators boast that the th total levy Is le lew as this year than last this la Is true but N i owing entirely to I 1 the reduction of 0 the salt bait lako city school levy from 9 mills in 1317 to I 1 10 mills this year irad had it not been tor for this lowered levy the aggregate of the tax levy would this year be 2814 28 instead of 0 the 27 8 11 10 mill itis ills the school board and not the county CommIss commissioners loners saved the taxpayer in ON instance the majority of the people who own property perty like to believe there Is a marlet property iro et tor for it they know that the market et for real estate Is always bt b t other things being biln equal in the town where the rate of taxation taj callnn Is lowest for instance a man would much prefer to haie ila e a parcel of real estate vl VI tred for or anent at SION aadne e tax levy 10 20 mills than to have it at 1500 and be required to pay par a ti mills tax on it the higher valuation and aid lower levy ire are vastly the haher tor for the owner the property and tho the town had the print hoard board lowered the valuation atlon two the amount it sed the levy the county tax burden would ha have e been the same as in JAV As it Is injury lias has beon benn done every salt lakers property and he Is being compelled to pay for or the privilege 0 of seeing his property depreciated T if olid foundation of the tribunes V figures ng ures i the th ortin organ yesterday morning had bad ri long article on the county di an effort to break tho the force 0 of the showing mado made against the present county adminis tr a tion by the tribune the organ mixes alx IJ I 1 the whole is tax levy tor for all purposes into its lt rates and tries to eliminate all unusual items of 0 expenditure but tho the total total taxation tax atlon including state and schools has nothing to do N I 1 th this dUt tOon it is in simply the th county affair t f that ire involved and it will w ill not ot help the borrma to muddle tho tha reckoning by dragging into the computation things that do not belong the there ro what abat iw for instance ln tance has haa the school tax I 1 ax tor or this thin city to do N with ith the tha matter in b bringing A I in these theme items the a organ k 1 tows t that it cannot face th the I 1 1 sue tie tb ahe count county matl ad a by the tha Democrat lo machino tur TUE REJECTED itea TS again the ibe organ cican seeks to throw out 11 all ll but certain routine a in lla its comparison comra riton of 0 ma vinga thus thu it dwells on contracted by tho the previous administration I 1 the cost colt of 0 copying Sin singhara ghana mining record ro cori and various vari cl orieal expense aft over feint fe etc but such extra items rare are in always there Is in never 9 a year i without ext attra of thin kind hind and nil to seek to eliminate them Is simply to evade the true exmon se account t mr bunbar r in ills lil talk last night pursued this game course sao n 0 t that he I 1 pleaded a former borrner showing agal n bi mr r As to this it must be confes tell that ill UK county records record I 1 ire are in s uch I 1 condition that complete coro com accuracy is in I 1 I nigh impossible the tha clerk ba him I 1 awl 0 get 1 l of 0 floure the auditor another 4 i treasurer Trea if aurer another tho the is lax rw ral J paled to the As valuation dw does 1 l get the tux tax AS on tha books 4 of t tho the financial as aa carried n the V tribune les mo I 1 in probably tTo bibly th ill mot most of icy any yet 0 iven TM nen kit in tny any paper or by my any beahr speaker pe ahr 10 1 0 show how 06 constantly conet antly in 0 t 0 I 1 coun county train irom ty ti tax r rt brat t to Z tit mill 1 in 11 I 1 A 3 mills ind and then to ay 4 mills this yr with kith S constant contti uit deficit and ex coi V of 0 ovar the local legal limit ismil it lii 19 a bi 9 for or the democracy i and irr arr dunbarr Dun barB j abita in no way I 1 its ita twee M 1 1 |
