Show OIN III oil 01 1 S col lowing loing on hi hedia of mil oth or r mth mith lightning liki lik nn art dentine it ton a mate of li A a but moo of radical senatore sena torm nid and congressmen con linnit to kionke wrench s into mathi machinery nery of pro gro sq and development by thea on the trat lines apparently apparis antly it ia it their purpose to 80 deduce railroad anlu 4 to be found b 1 the in commission aa a basis for future railroad rafts and to so curtail earnings through reduction in rates and to in embarrass future opera aiom by additional regulatory reul atory legislation that there will bo be no escape from government ownership and operation of the railway lines but even in these hectic times some figure figures made public thia this week by the interstate commerce commission and the united states bureau of census arc are calculated to divert the attention of the thoughtful citizen 1 for example these figurea figures urea show that the tax accruals of class 1 I 1 railways during the month of november 1923 for the first time in the history of the nation amounted to moro than a million dollars a day likewise it is shown that fro from 1918 to 1923 inclusive there has been a steady and persis 4 tent increase in railway taxes I 1 taking the accruals for november of each year aa as a basis it is found that these amounted from in 1918 to I 1 in 1923 it is also shown that since 1919 the taxes paid by the railways have regularly exceeded the cash dividends paid by them the milway railway milay ay taca are about cent greater than they were ten years ago some startling tax ta increases in utah are shown by the census bureau report it discloses disclose that in the decade from 1912 to 1922 general property taxes in utah increased 66 per cent special assessments per cent and the public debt per cent the debt of the government increased per cent in that period the debt of the counties increased aper cent and the debt of the cities per cent let us not get got the idea that because our property holdings arc are small we ue escape the result resul of these destructive destruct he tax in creases our business affairs are closely inte interwoven roven with those of our neighbors As a general Konc ril proposition if them ahr art pros prompt rouix wo we aro are prosperous and wo we annul annot expect to have a matis satisfactory factory volume of if business chui hn thy are tire being stilled by emps emissive sive over overhead hLad expects it IH is a it realization of thin this in fil ter kp of baumne AR that IH is causing commercial club and representative stiens to tall i all the attention of our con grossman Ln ind and senators to the fact that nevii in the hintor of if the country havo have we had bet i 1 ter service from the transportation lines than we ate had dunn during the past year that the tremendous expenditures for improvements improve menta and betterments have been of trtat benefit to to the communities through which the lines pass and that our ence with government own enship of railroads railroad was unsatisfactory is and we do not care to return to it it is a realization realisation of thin this situation which makes the mellon tax reduction plan or any other tax reduction plan a mighty popular program with the constituents of congress men and senators it is gratifying in this connection to state that in grand county the public debt has been steadily atea dily decreasing for the past four years and that it is the established practice of the county and school authorities to set aside in their sinking funds each year sufficient money to retire our outstanding obligations at their maturity |