Show TOJCSr REFLECTIO THOSE who are unjust are also prone t L lncinss nt Former city councils Lave been criticised unsparingly Ihe net ground that they did not tat establish nor encourage en-courage public Improvements and in the to fame bieath in which members mem-bers of the present citygovernment have expressed this sentiment they have cast reflections upon previous S councils because they did not tax tle Sat Lake City Railroad Company Com-pany This inconttttency was dls played in the City Council last evening Many times during the discussion ole resolution granting a franchise on certain streets to the Rapid Transit Company was the Immunity from taxation enjoyed by the old company referred to In a manner to reflect upon the prede cessors of the present Council The reasons which can b urged in support of a tax on the Rapid Transit Company did not exist when the franchises of the old company were granted At that time the population of the city was sal compared with the present money was scarce among the classes who would otherwise have patronized street cars the cost of the plant was greater than now and the revenue bore no such relation t the expenses expens-es as it does today In the early years of the street railroad in this city a light tax would hare been sufficient to extinguish the enterprise enter-prise and the policy pursued of granting It immunity from such a burden wasln line with a commendable commend-able public spirit Xow all this i change The city i a populous mctrojolis and money 1 abundant In comparison with what It as In former years The cost of operating rapid transit lines has been greatly reduced by modern invention and the profits1 of tuch a plant may now b made t far exceed what was I possible a few years ago lost evening Mr Hal moved t amend the pending resolution r a t make the per capita tax to b paid by the Rapid Transit Company one ant cuefourth Instead oCr one and onehalf mills and said in support of his motion Mr Mayor two and a half mills h p onetwentieth of a five cent Car and I one twenticth of anything i five percent per-cent of iu > ow five per cent comes pretiy near being tithing and I anything any-thing h kept this country back tithing has I am opposed to such a I high tax on tho gross revenue of the 1 company Mr Halls motion was agreed toby I to-by the Council A few moment later in speaking to another phase of the pending matter Mr Cohu stated that as early as some time in I the seventies the City Council had I provided for tho collection from the okTroid of a per capita tax of tie mills Mr Hall rose and asked But was the tax ever collected I II not true that every year a representative repre-sentative of the road would come b fore the Council and declare Ifwst to poor to pay the tax And I It not true that the Council always remitted I it I T These interrogatories were put In a semi sneering manner ant Mr Cohn made no reply TIle particulars par-ticulars a given Uiat Mr Hall may e himself others ceo him a he was probably unconscious of having stultified himself and crossed his own record within the space oft I rr Epc I few moments We repeat that those who are unjust are also prone to be I inconsistent |