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Show DUAL GOVERNMENTS. The Stale of Tiah has a population of ahn it ). The lota I expenditures for the State amount approximately to 12,000,000 per annum This Is a heavy burden to taxpayers, hut Is cheerfully borne where the laws and their administration are in the public Interest and whenever the commonwealth com-monwealth enjoys the advantage of honor and respect In the Nation, and attractiveness to men and money of the older Stales R is also a burden upon toll, which carries: in the final analysis all costs of government, all costs of peace and war, and all other financial costs In this world. But It is cheerfully borne when the opportunities for toll are enhanced, as they should be under Statehood. The Mormon church has a membership member-ship of sixty-five to seventy per cent of the population of I'tah. The coat of the hierarchical government to the people of this Stale Is approximately X1,2..0,"m10 per annum. All this expense may be borne cheerfully by some of the tithe payers, but not all. So far as the mass of people in Utah are concerned this State has a dual government. The taxpayer Is strained to the utmost to support even one and that the legitimate and necessary government. gov-ernment. Any student of economics realizes that the added burdens of public administration ad-ministration even though It be ecclesiastical eccle-siastical and unnecessary must rest upon the general commerce ond toll of the State. Suppose by some act of the legislature legisla-ture of t'olnrado the cost of government In that Stat" were doubled tomorrow' and that the Increased expense came from the taxpayers. What would be the result? Every man engaged In business, busi-ness, every real estate owner, every railroad would have to add something to their present charges, to be paid finally by toll. In order to meet the multiplied demands. Would Colorado prosper'' Would the State be attractive? T'tah is In no position to carry the expense of two governments, and yet she does carry that expense as definitely definite-ly as If the hierarchical charges were a part of the legal public expenditure. The burden falls directly upon Mormons Mor-mons for the ecclesiastical government of the State, but indirectly It falls upon up-on all our citizenship since, by diffusion, diffu-sion, all public burden has been proved inevitably to reach all classes In a community. com-munity. The best boost that Salt Lake and Utah can receive at the present time would he the abolition of the hierarchical hierarchi-cal government It Is a luxury which the State cannot afford. It Is an economic eco-nomic sin that so large an amount of money should be taken, by absolute taxation, out of the people and largely-exported largely-exported from the State by Its beneficiaries. benefi-ciaries. How to get rid of It? If any taxpayer tax-payer in Utah could honestly avoid the payment of public charge by simply declining de-clining to pay his money into the public pub-lic treasury he would do so. Every taxpayer to the church can honestly avoid the burden by declining to contribute his earnings to the unnecessary, unne-cessary, costly, Illegal, and alien government gov-ernment which has been foisted upon the commonwealth. |