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Show In view of the action taken by cer- tain tax-payers The Times repeats a few questions it propounded several days ago. Will the money spent in the 'proposed litigation redound to the credit of the city or of the comparatively compara-tively few who in hot haste lead off in opposition? Is the new board of. education, edu-cation, already crippled by the withholding with-holding of collections, to be handi-' handi-' eapped and hampered by vexatious delays de-lays and lawsuits and effectually barred from making the city schools what it was promised they should be in the campaign preceding the election? Would it prove an unmitigated evil if the treasury of the said board should show a surplus over current cur-rent expenses rather than a vacuum? Granted that there is some inequality in the various rates of spec-( spec-( ial school tax imposed by the twenty-two twenty-two districts now consolidated into one; would it not be better to trust to the - discretion of the intelligent gentlemen composing the board of education and fairly representing all the people of this city, to care for and expend the money collected on those varied taxes than to throw away good money in contesting . them? It would seem that public spirited spir-ited citizens could have but one answer to these questions and would rather contribute to the support of our city schools. t,ban tq an unseemly wrangle in the courts. |