Show Compla have been made at this office that our democratic city government is exacting a license fee of those boarding students such a thing has never been done before in provo or for that matter in the territory and if persisted in provo might as well atop trying to become an educational center most of the students attending the brigham young academy are poor boya and girls to them ever cent counts and at the rates they have been getting board and lodging in the past there is deiy little profit many families in fact take students to board aa an accommodation be caisa of friendship or relationship they make nothing out of it nor do they seek a profit the rates charged merely cover the bare expenses if now a license ie by oar dem city government many already taking boarders will give up the business entirely and those who continue will have to charge the amount of the license up to the students what will the effect be why simply ibis many students who would otherwise come to provo will go to bait lake and logan where board aud lodging will be cheaper because of no license republicans believe in giving all possible advantage to education they believe in fostering and en cin raging it and not in taxing the young men who are struggling for an education democracy has never given groat attention to schools nor educational interests statistics will shew that the best public school sya lems and the best attendance at these schools are in the states lich roll up splendid republican publican Be majorities we expect our educational interests to suffer in provo so long as the city is under democratic control cont tol |