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Show WK roPDLAi: sovEKEiG.xrr suix- BE 1FIED. Hi Tue utter defiance by the "Lib- ff cral," or, as the Kcw York Mail nf " Eiprcu put it, ''Christian" BKC Cit Council, of the pronounced S wishes of almost the enUro popula- n tion of Salt UK ia t&Mon to Hf municipal taxation, is a striUng M leiioniu despotism. U the petition n.) for reduction of the rite or Ux be Hli combined with the flood of protesU t. ogiinst the extortionite and udjubU HI ' '' "wriniliiitins assesinienU made K: ,bjr UlB "literal" a-essor, the ar- Jfi WiraT refusal to grant the re- 4 'iuet has no parallel i H ,ho line of 'yanur of lis class l exhibited by tbe offlcers of any city fe' the United States. It is a Hat MS deuial-of the principle of popular SB Mvcrelgnty, and transforms those Hf whoso Jegitimate capacity Is that of HR servaaU to the people into mere J ' Jcvyers of tribute. If Tl,e ehlef LIberaI"organ which, M i uat ,0US '!". roundly U-rated Ule Rj Council, asserting tnat there were Hi Mmo'1'lllnien"Init,seemstonow JW be seeking to craw 1 back Into favor mM with Uiat body. In Coing M, how- WKM jvu'' u Iare the popIar ex. Ba wration directed at the munlcital officials who reiptorily trample MTH under fott the people, wishes In If on!er to JTlete Uie lattera' Bffi pocket-;. The Journal referred BE h heading ts reports of BMff pratesls of citizeus against Mr. BB Clute'a excessive assiment3 Bjg with i-uch flamers as "The Wail of BS u,e Widows," supports the oppress- R' - 0rS f lhe lroor in 'nelr inexcusable M . action. BjH.." . A1"! the unscrupulous libel BB 'a Journalism, .is it does on a!mot BJI ""? other si'-Ject, fert, to tbe J mist glaring falsehoods tor;utaiii Bf iU "utensble po:lllon. Thteo un- ! truths are iterated and reiterated Ml unUlir!iB tho wilier of them, f . through force of ue. m ly possibly, i in the id, himself tHeVc tbcm to f be correct. One sample In Oils con- i "tlonisufflcient,andWB quote it: if "hvt J"6ir lbs levy was ten milli: j! V lhh5jre.ritl.four. Where, therefore. fl does all Uj6 weepln- waUio- D(1 f. . snasbhig of teeth corns in." r - U wl us olwervej that in thU oft-repaated tUtein.-nt Uic rate of last year is .f jublej. as it was. as 1 1 cuht to he well known, the half of l onepcr cent, which hual to five f. m""- This year it is four milU- i,'. oae mI" Joarer yet by a process of exc,ire- extortionate f assessments the ajireg.te valuaUon mi " iuereaid to over three times tliat oflSs9. The increased value ot real m estate cannot JuvtL'y, la , brirf a H period, turf, an upward leap In tax- Ut aT: , TUe '"dence jcoperty, i , which is non-proJuctivj-, has been aMe'J to an extent that canaa: l, f - Justified by any processor reasoning, f and ,he w's'it falls with special L . fonx "iwn the shoulder of the , "irir,y Por who own their own tij hIome,-butwh9-3periunentisses- J fIonof them is endangered by the Imposition of the new and heavy j burdens under a "Liberal" regime. |
