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Show ACAlXiT orntESiIVK TAXES. A Mrmi-r Jtsrmeat in I'amr f l.tzhtrniri:; Ifac I'ttpalar IlarJrts. For some days jst eojiies of a petition asking tlie City Council lo reduce the rate of taxation from four to tao a-ila half nulls, have been In circulation iu alt parts of the city, an 1 are b-in,; sign-i with at idity by all cls-ses and jwrsua slops of citiz.ii'. I'arty lines arc compM-ly lost sight of In this movement. A single h-to' name-, atlacheil to a caj y of this petition, wa v-eu today iu the hands of a rotuinefit Isi-iness man, who was Interested in circulating it, which rejv-ented wslih Ui the amount of about twenty miill m dulUrs. There are a num-ier of other li-ts In tlie hands of eist-rKlc circulators au-1 it is jirolaldy safe to say fiat the owners of from thirty to forty million dollars worth of property in this city have al ready signed their names to a request t j tlie eit council to reduce the city tax as above stated. The total as-e-amcut is fifty-four millions mill-ions and it is likely that threi-fourtli-s if not more, of this sum will be represented ou the n-titions by tlve tiaie they are liKI before the CoUHi.il. In other words, a practically practic-ally unanimous protest by all the property owners In the city will go up to tnatUidyaipinst Ilia oppressive oppres-sive tax tion which the Council lias voted to inflict ujion them. The member of the Council wlio votes to disregard this otest will defy the wishes of nearlv the whole body of Ills oonstkuenK expressed in w ords which bear theirslguatures. |
