| Show SALT LAKES PROFESSIONAL TAX DODGERS Assessor Quinn Tells Cells They Make a Business of Escaping the Burdens of of Rich Ilens Money that Cannot be Poor Man Alan rays Pays the Tax The poor man pos pays the tax II fe a alIOn lIOn saying that hat baa become an In Inthe inthe the political world Campaign orators have lIae heralded It from the stump until It tae hal to mean man whit what It once meant and yet t how deep Its cancel canell How Ilow true its Ita utterance how unjust the system that permits u Its cx X nut But what can he be done It It ItIs Itis Is It a problem list the ablest ra the moat fROIt vigilant assessors and the courts have baY been to solve Very fw few Sall It I In tb the sense realise 11 the unequal distribution of to of govern JOvern government ment In their own city county count and nd Slate The Tho facts are re appalling and a fame Cam well night Immortal awaits the assessor who ho can over overcome orne them and nd compel the tax dodgers to carr carry their Ih share of the public burden Why do you realise 11 old County Count Quinn to the News yester yesterday day Ilay afternoon that nearly it If not quite half of the property et t Salt Luke IAk court coun count t ty le Is not taxed at alt aiL Th The News New man t ment mant and asked why such was the ease and wh why a per antage ot of property was wa not lIot put upon th the rolls QUINN W An IS UP Ul Ill tell tall you ou who said Assessor Quinn as he warmed up III to a discussion of at the subject and mopped on off the beads bead beador or of perspiration that arose on on his hll ex ax pensive brow It Is II because we cant find And It It Is b beyond ond our It Is beyond the reach of tb the belt beet mn man who lever Ir filled the o ot of In this county count and It always will be at least until our present nt system atm Is changed and that seems nl to t be saddled upon us for all time to com comet IS What cia claw of properly II It that thus escapes II the eyes 11 of yourself Our lt and deputies Mr dr Quinn was wa liked asked Money low much money do you estimate there le la hedged about b by existing cona con In Salt Sett lAke III a to tape pe tax taxation millions That Is an Immense mum But Dut U it will reach that and more too It is II monarch ot of all n its Ita owners survey aced 1141 as elusive q air an 1 old mans dream ot cf youth Do you ever think of 1 q wh where whereby b by It ea be made to the of the law T This question wu was toO much for Mr HI Quinn and aDd for tor a moment moat b be bulled looking out ot of the window In III a manner that almost perplex perplexIty Ity L Finally he came cam bids to th the qu quo lion UI and answered 1 it fruM free ily IS II TOO UTOPIAN No saw he 1 with I dot dont think ot of such a have tried to but J 1 seat aut It Its too Ut pIU It wont work 0 It JIll may do so ao In the future but bot not now new When that time tim tom comes the will not be f ar r Where When Is II this mon monIn money In the bunks banks mostly Who n It II The And It amounts amount to Fully Pull thirty as I 1 have kave al aI already ready said Ild Have Han you no means meana ol of getting tb the names ot of these None Non whatever It If w we go to the banks banu and Inquire hoW bow much money John Jon Jones or Sam Brown Jau hu on de deposit posit the tank law will tali see It I ii none ol of our we Ioto ko to Jon Jonh Jones h he tells teU w d he a cent ceat and Brown will give sv us UI the horse hoe laugh So o there I w we are re We e cant take aay legal steps to pt get this au t we e there fare have to get et along Without out It If w we could only get t at this money tb the I rite rat ot of tAxation would be out cut In two HOW BANKS ARE ARB But ho how about the Ianke them themselves selves We simply asses their thir capital stock Their realty and Improvements a are I in included eluded In tb this assessment at nut But there must mut be man many men or of wealth whom you know have lar large lank accounts Yee Ye but they have a wonderful h ha habit bit ot of claiming an n The over overdraft draft man is II the most moat vidual I ever saw AW In my fife tb the fellow who meets you the da day af after after ter election and assures you that he bl voted 0 ted for you ou TUB TILE TAX Itow about tb the mortgage tu tax It is II a curse rUlle and nd a plague ue to the State and breeds breed more liars and lId per perjurers er Jure jurers than any law that we ever had hadon on OD our statute honks book It I ii remarkable ho how man many per pie who are honest In their dealings with their fellowmen who will lie and bear false witness when hen It com comes to paying paring this mortgage morte tax TIM The J mortgage t r ls II nude maM In the stases ot of ither a non or some really reali u person and nd all the ol of till the nether regions cant get t at t the fuels Ica the case The truth ts II the there are 11 v vary few people Ie who feel that they have not a perfect right to deceive t this 18 as assessor sessor EASY KAaY TO FIND THIS THE POOR MAN YAN YANA A And lid tb the deception II h constantly grow In log Th one man mah however that never There deal us UI He cant n Ite h has no mOnt money In the bank no ItOC or bonds bond no mortgages except the mortgage OR on hi his Inn farm and hi he has haa to topa pa pay the tax tut on that no glittering dl dla mends moMI or other jewelry U II I is the poor poorman man mall the man mIlA who ho 14 pays the tho tax lax II lie h has his house hoUM with its scanty furniture his hll wagon sad and horses honell cow pi pip and Ile Ife has bat not nothing bin to hide We Wesee see all 11 he h has and taX It And thus U It UI I toe J on front ear to year ear and thue an It wilt coot nu to ro on until we l un until tit til there is II d change Till that time come the tax dod dodgers ot of Salt Lake Lakemore more cunning than Dickens artful dodger will continue to wax and grow w tatu fat u tb the poor man continues to grow w poorer THIS S VALUATION Speaking BPI of the probable valuation of alt Luke Lak count county for this year Mr JoIr Quinn said It will I 3 think be be about In excess of last years earl figures urH which In tb the city and county anre aggregated gated ted The county portion of that wu was t So you ou see let we weIDa weIns Ins IDa look for a valuation of between and this year Tbt I is of 01 course coune only Our work must mut be finished by May ia T 1 when the rolls will be turned tumid over to the treasurers Notices will then lie be lint Bent out after which the board of county commissioners will III fix the rate tile the State board of pus upon tb the rolls rolli the second notices be mailed and collections commence aid continue until November U 16 when lazes 11 become delinquent dl Xo NO SINECURE The of oC assessor does doel not ap appear p pear to be a snap Mr r Quinn portrayed In t you h have e painted The rp I n who think It ls II labors wader a delusion M My oMee 1 the only one In the betiding where the bo boys dont smile They dont ha have time to toor More or than that they work olk till they are oUe too tired to illumine their features With luch a thing thin a that There are taxpayers In Salt Lake City and county count tenths ot of them are re astride e ot of our perks while the other tenth I le flag to let get on to the same Im part of our anatomy |
