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Show TIIE TAX Mil TALKS. A Very Healthy and Robust Petition Ex-prts3es Ex-prts3es His Views on the Old Port Block. ENGLISH WITHOUT GLOVES Cell or Make an Appropriation of $23,000 per Annum Until $150,000 Are Spent. Among other documents that will be launched on the sea of aldermanie wisdom wis-dom at the meeting tonight is one that will make itself decidedly interesting if not pestiferous to certain satellites who havo taken 11 position against the sale of the Old Fort block to Mr. Racon and the promoters of the Deep Creek railway rail-way project. Tho document that is now circulating consists of a petition and a protest that has continued to gather vitality until it is one of tho healthiest and most robust that ever weut before a deliberative body. It sets forth in very emphatic English thnt subscribers are owners of and taxpayers tax-payers on property fronting upon and adjacent to tho Old Fort block. When last seen it contained nearly 100 bona lido autographs. It demands the sale of the block to Mr. Racon at the figure offered by him and which they regard as a fair price. It declares the block a disgrace to tho city, a harbor for tramps and a refuge for disreputablo characters who are a perpetual menace to the youth and womanhood of the locality. Rut there is an alt'rnativo clause. If, says the subscribers to the document, docu-ment, tho honorable body continues to maintain its present policy of procrastination procras-tination and delay and insists that it is best not to dispose of it then they demand de-mand an appropriation of 925,000 per annum bo mado for six years until $150,000 shall have been expended on improvements and the beautifying of a block that has suddenly become so essential es-sential to the poor man's fresh air fund. There is nothing ambiguous about the paper. It goes forth with bare knocks and the stamp of indignant freeholders to meet its fate. What will it be Samuel Shill, the owner of half a block fronting on the old Fort block, and a tax payer who has resided in this city for thirty-six years demands that the road be admitted and insists that he litters the sentiments of almostevcry man in the locality. "The position taken by a morning paper," says Mr. Shill, ' is not consistent. consist-ent. It denies the authority of the city to pass title, and yet in the'faca of this was the lease on , tho Eighth ward square to the baseball association, which taxes the public 25 ceuts a head as admission. Again it takes the position posi-tion that tho block is not largo enough for a depot. But it was largo enough for tho Utah Central, who used it for twelve years for freight and passenger purposes when Jim Sharp was the manager of the railroad. No sir. the argument won't tako with the property owners who want to see that locality advance and improve as the f-pirit of the times justifies. We are tired of this opposition to enterprises that mean so much for that portion of the city. Let the council admit the railroad, accept Mr. Bacon's offer so long as tho taxpayers approve it, or put tho block iu the shape for which it was oricinaliy designed." The petition is a very strong one, aud the result of tonight's action will be awaited with interest. |