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Show ikaixvt orniEssivK taxes. A S!ns 3Isiiteal in laror of I.!:htrnin; tbc IVpalar llardcrs. For wrae days jst cojiies of a ptltion a "king the City Council lo reduce the rate of taxation from four to two ai 1 a h lf null, have been in cirouUriou n allpirtsof the city, ani are bflu signal wlUi avidity by all ela-ees and persuasions persua-sions of cHi-.ii. IVty lines are comi(etely lost sight of Iu this movement. A single list of names, attached to a caj.y of this i-etltloa, a seen today iu the hinds of a ImHuinetit Isi-iiieats man, ubo was nteresteil In circulating it, which reinvented wealth lo the amount cf about twenty inilll n dollars. There are a number of other li-ts In the hands of euerellc circulators, and it is tmltbly safe to say fiat the owners of from thirty to forty million dollars worth of property in this city have already al-ready signed their ninies to a request to the city council to reduce the city tax as above stated. Tile total as-e-sment is fifty-four mill-lou,anl mill-lou,anl it is likely that thiet-fourUis thiet-fourUis if not more, of this sum will be represented ou the etitions by the tiate they are laid lieforc the CouMcil. In other words, a pracUc-nlly pracUc-nlly unanimous protest by all the property owners in the city will go up to tliat bly agiln't the oppressive oppres-sive tax Uon which the Council lias voted to Inflict ujion them. The member of the Council who votes to disregard thl jotet will defy the wishes of nearly the whole body of his oonsUtuenK expressed In w ords which liear their signatures. |
