Show POLICY there was a god goad democrat in our office yesterday denouncing the extravagance trava gance of our city government and tho the high rate rata of taxation for this i year he is one of the early settlers of provo and takes a deep interest in public affairs the great trouble is that provo is patterning 11 after salt lake and ogden which cities are b bonding and taxing to their lull full capacity hundreds of good people are leaving salt lake being driven out by heavy taxes now I 1 6 provo ought to be in a position r to say to thosa dissatisfied cl with salt like lake come coma to our city we enjoy ejoy here most ot the advantages advani ages of city c i ty life and our taxes are low 11 that seemed to ua a splendid idea there are many very desirable people leaving leavin salt lake men who helped so bettle atle utah and know its worth they are leaving the capital as before stated because of excessive taxation now we ought to get many of thorn them to come to some have already come here and like the Ic location cation but if we are going to raise our taxes to comparatively as aa high a rato rate as aa salt lake they would better have baro remained where they were wera brovo is all tight kight but the municipal muni ci government has unfortunately rot got into the hands of a lot I 1 of incompetent men nono liono regrets the indebted ness nes incurred to td put pl af in isbir our water works worthe the city property is wort worth th much more with th ample action against fire and the more general tisa of the city water will cause causa a decrease of sickness si among our inhabitants in it has been demonstrated I 1 that most of our flowing wells breed malaria malar i a and rheumatism while wh ile a great many surface wells aro are simply sim ply poisonous there 13 no better water than tho the city so far us as healthfulness goes and if our city officers were up t to 0 their business the water works would now bo ba P paying the interest in i on the bonds |