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Show jtk COMrEIXIXK THE I'OOR TO SELL. 1 V.'W I Oac of the most commendable -iHjMfc I features connected with the ponula SfBr tlonoftliUcItyln Uiepast,halon JBWl the potveaelon ly Ibe people of all KjBB clauses of their own homes. Instead JSB , of being renters the working people $ have been holders and have lived 8sS ' under their own roofs. Tbey have Sk3 I also rat under shade of their own i -fluBl trees and vines. I g"jj T,1,s ""Shtul condition of com- (fort, thrift and comparative freedom from annoyance, bids fair to fade away and become a mere memory of SHiB the past. The present government 'KPJt ' '' ODe we" calculated to obliterate 'KflWw " aDd nuLe thl Wuata raUd "Ltb- KJ eral" faction have threatened "a 4psm rich man's city." jHjl The policy of the present munlcl- SffiF J1 Svnment Is calculated to pro- TBJanF Juce that "Deslrable rtjL It is I sOS ' legitimate outgrowth of the inten- HjsllB I tlon of the party who w ere enabled IplM.i to seize the reins of rule by the most I fir SB disreiutable methods known in Uie && maIJypo)lof politics. We doubt 'aH . " aD-5" fucu scenes have ever been SB ( witnessed in relation to the taxa- r&g&K ' Uon of 1,le people of any city in wSjjm j the world as thusc transacted before H9 1 t,ie Cucil Hoard of .Equalization WSaml Uurlug the last fe-v days. The MBBM J protests that' have been, uttered ajBRM i against the burdens that have SP I been Imjosed on the people by Ifett I tDe eitJ Kvcrnment have jmured .j) n like a flood, and have S exhibited the most flagrant and 1 1 , j unjust discriminations In theassess- j ment of values. Uesldes those : already heard, a host of written . j - ' objections are in and will have to , . tr i he considered. ; E t l some of the features of tills potu- tfe-J lar -ppoltion to burdenome taxa- ' jpj "on are almost ludicrous. When -? the Silt Lake County Board of S Equalization mU to perform their inirtant duty, they were flooded with protests against what were complained of as unreasonable and excessive assessments made by the county assessor, and feeling feel-ing against that official ran high. Xow many of the time ( -. complainants are, in substantiating their grievances agsint the high estimates pla-ed on values by Uie city assessor, citing, by w ay of com-torison, com-torison, the lighter figures of the county offlrer, who is now viewed, liecause of late city tax developments, develop-ments, as the acme of moderation andjutice- SJ-T& The residence property, whlih is jT?r practically non-productive, bassets'" basset-s'" cd at figure? that beggar com-? com-? parison. The working iieople - I Vi ovn not,,InS txcrpt their fi. jfc 1 homss, are the clasi n ho.sufTer and g groan mo-t under the burdens Im-5 Im-5 & l"1- " " "I he nceediUo'ly diffi. pl cU'tanJ in miny ciss imios-ibIe i I tor 'hem to m-et the dram upon v thnt Iiuoiblo resaurces without kS jartlng with a iwrtionof thelrsub-4S thelrsub-4S stance. To produce this condition is evidently the purxe of the ex Zk ce-isite public financial obligaUous JfA place.1 upon Uie jwople by Uiose jiS' who should be their servants, but SIP Io iwime the role ol taskmasters. iff. Heretofore light UxaUon. whicil E J was han3'i Mt by the people, gli anJ freeiom from indebtedness. feK iiave ruled In this municipality. jB These features are being rudely iff wiI,eJ outi anJ the cry or the poor, W4 and' ,n ""W Instances, the wall of HiewealUii who feci the pinch of B oppn-ion, are ascending into the m rare of a city Rovenimtnt that it P' rapidly becoming odious beyond &y t-timate. rules U.e latter 11-ten to 4S tu-iwimlar voice they willbeexe- Mr . Crated In aImost -Very hou-hold without reference to claw, and denounced de-nounced as the inaugurators of an era of tyranny which should have B no place within the borders of the Bffi- United States. |
