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Show THE UKRAU) ASD CITY TAXES, Our pugnacious contemporary, the Herald, waxes frantic over the excessive excess-ive assessment of city property aud in a wail of despair calls for somebody to avert the sore disaster that is in store for us if Assessor Clute is not bridled at once. This is a gloomy view to take of the ways of Mr. Olute but the Herald is a gloomy paper anyway. The fact of the matter is that a maximum assessment is rather a benefit than a detriment to a city inasmuch as it advertises ad-vertises a higher valuation, and at the same timo a lower rate of taxation to the world. For instanco it is better to pay one per cent on $100,000 than two per cent on $50,000, for while the amount is the same in either case, the lower rate strikes the prospective investor, in-vestor, who rarely inquires for the rate of valuation, much more favorably. By this we do not mean, of course, and the Herald does not urge the point, that assessments should be unequal and therefore unjust. All the protests filed so far were on tho latter ground, and therefore deserving of .the closest scrutiny. Neither do we mean that the enhanced valuation should lead to loose and reckless expenditures, though we are in favor of liberal lib-eral improvements, commensurate with the progress and prospect of the city. Salt Luke City is no longer, and tho Herald might as well wake up to the fact, in quarantine and It is willing to pay something for the liberation. Outside,' however, of mere narrow objections thore aie certain evils connected con-nected with unequal assessments which the city council should correct. And as for public improvements they should not be made except under the most competent supervision. Thr Times is free to say that this is not being done in every cuso now. |