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Show 'J WILL IT HE DOM2 J It Is rumDred that a majority of j the City Council tlo not want to I reduce the rate of taxation as rc- 'i quested lu the mouslvrrelition from the taxpayers. They want the ' chance to handle all the money that j can he collected They want, too, the means to lio" some improve- t menu before their terms expire. Two bunJred and seventy thousind dollars gone In fcix months and ab sokjlely notliiu2 toshonr for it more f thin ordinary citj business U a ter- nbte black tye for ' Liberal" mu- j nleipil minagement. Hut with the enrmtusfun Is which the exorbitant exorbit-ant tax proposed will sweat from taa tupiyer.-, soatsthin; ciu be done, even unJer "Liberal" nuuip-utatlon, nuuip-utatlon, in the iraj of public lni- f r It Is said alo tnit tile City jf g Attorney Is willing to help fi3 th Council wltti an opinion liH to the effect that they cannot ff In -- now change the rate which the) ig-Sn & Iiave fixed. If so they will have jEMB " aie apparent ground on which to JaKJI I' " take a position hostile to the public B3B ji? Mr,tl anJ the jrtjjJielut-et. BjlJX -Jfcf I!j' "PI the City Council B j RhouM take a coalman n view of PjjjB i la situation ani choulJ lower the I rate si requested by the people. lr WlMbgoiasto oljecTt Th A-s- ? K' probably, bec.iueui) percentage t; ' vrowH not net him the i-aug j jai on O." . wiusli lie bat tet his mind Who ii i k else? NobsJy of auy eons-quence. f And if thnra thujIJ be a few indl uu1liwb3 think the Council li notiutborlzeJ to make the reduc-' reduc-' tion, whit hould that nutter? Can anybody compel the Council to col Jt from the taxpayers xn?re reve nue than is sufficient for the cit ' MmL woi- " That tlie City Council can rnluce the rale and that it can cut iow n the excessive assuients ou pro-jierty pro-jierty needb no argument. The proof of the power would ie ia its exercise. It might be argued that the law does not opecify the right of the Council to do this. Hut all the argument , that might t raiird would not count, when the act would be m-dorred m-dorred b the public and no one is likely to kitk against it o as to affect an thing or an body. We have no deilre to fee the Council crippled for lack of revenue. We want improvements to be made coni!ent with the growth and needs of the city. Hjt we believe there will be ample funds for this ixirjo-e without these excessive burdens. And we aIo believe that it will be good pohc.) fertile present Cojncil to comply with the public request. At the same time there is JK im dinger to the Cojucil in exer ts UIug the right to regulate taxation I J '" "e general interest in accord- l ance with a general denitnd If L if , the servants of the iieonle do not I g eonjpl uitlitlie t.xpreed ili of Ja 9 the people, It is not because the I w can't, but because the won't. j |
