Show THE TIIE IE U. U E. E A. A AND TAXES S I By D- L L. J- J A. A I The Th Utah t laI ial Association numbering a about recently hold holdI I a m meeting ng in irr s 's Salt r Lake and and- l q I iio r doubt received good bereft benefit but at such places places it it ha has become acome a habit CI the tho propagandist tho-propagandist to spread tax spread ta tax I I propositions more t tribes takes es from froman rom an n already overburdened public and anda r J Ja a a Mr 1 no Robison Robison-of Robison ison o of Moab pro proceeded to lo lotell I tell all about about it it He says that S some some I I of tho t I. I cOl counties of 1 he state ta y ard taxed tax taxed tax ta I ed only from 39 to 75 pery cent cont o of i their h true trite lle value in hi spi spite c ur of the t ia lair v. v YI that hat property orty sJ should as assessed cs 9 at per pr cent va value uc fIo s. Il Robison o ison know so much The llO price of wI wisdom v is above c rubies The j law Says that AH ll property shall snail DO be bc taxed I In l proportion 11 to ih v n that luo means the thc amount t. t at which tho property wo bo hf bo taken i in lla payment ment of a adjust jut just debt ol duo from froma a solvent debtor eb r S Smart alt real estate men w whoso sO business le s was vas as to 0 pI now know W values alues and whose e. e I v city ity or oral oral- adlaw ad- ad h lias s depended HP upon their I I judgments ts l harp hayg aR lf time uc AHIn aill gone gone- busted i o oi estimates of or r values Ye We Wei i know InloW that allover the property oer the I state II j I jis I is iw held by bytho tho the purchasers of tax I I titles Ve We know that hanks banks and i iI iother j I other other- es take tale property on I II mortgages far b below low the estimates i j I of values and yet ye c tho often lake I 1 that property In n on on the tho ni niort mortgages ages i Where is the inan nail that is able to lo say th that t this prop property or or that hat would uld he be betaken taken at t such and such riA a price mice jr in I payment of a just debt due debt due from a solvent cl debtor If Every piece or property In the county would have havo I to ho he siz sized d up th that t way ar In In order order to I k make e such as an estimate and and then theli It knows knots only a guess I would be x wh what ta a just d' d debtor tor w would do in re redeeming redeeming re re- re ty NOb Nobody dY knows I d deeming eming p property ope Robison ison of oC Moab 1 I unless ss It ft be e 11 1 no tells tells' exactly about about the real realI realf I wl wiio o tells us I f value of all t the e property of of th the state without t even seeing it it He must airplane to tomake tomake tomake view by h have ve tal taken cn a make his calculations calculations- The trouble I bison Ho is that I ho he wan j 5 on w with th Mr 11 to to tor raise th the ta taxes es and unjustly I b based s d upon a a palpable palpable- error h hat t l l. l a ahas has probably borrowed from s some somebody body else that knows no more about and yet ho v values lues than he lie he does of Duchesne Duchesne Du that the property hi baldly 1 lly says chesne c county is asse assessed s d at G Gl 61 1 per pel percent percent cent o of the real value and says that before tt h large body ody of or teachers I J Iam am aih wondering i lg if it the teachers believed believed ed ed all ili 61 ot t that rot ot It the legislature were we're were made made ji dd up of or romi nici of of- R state of Utah W l i KI gri l caliber r me tae i S busted in hi a year year We VO o r all all know knotty s that everyman every man has a tont stand stand- ar ard l values f v values lues of property of property for a to make Sl obvious err er- er r roils rOlS of state to r q a body Ol Y of j I I i I teachers teachers e iel's Is is' is to label Inbe him fn incompetent t such a body od I I Any X ny y c common thinker l ker knows t. t that thai la to assess property nt fat what s 's mo peo- peo people vIe are are pleased to call th full cash cashI I j I V value ilO lg is Yo to i m dr l iy destroy y the c cI value value- of that property and tho i Shrinks bb- bb toy way vay i 1 low v the assessment and the and the lC man 1 m Is nil 11 p. p i for to over v To i assess assess i means moans to 1 destroy property AVo Vo have hav an an assessor asses assessor s sor In Duchesne county th that t understands under under- understands I stands that principle rand is a aging acting in upon It and his liis as assessments ts over th the 1 county are arc rea reasonably I 1 l fair far and aud I I they Y approach the thc titer t value Vall jis s con contour contain tom pla plated cd by the statute although so some ne of the tho valuations are arc a a. little too too high and above the tho cash value but ho he will remedy that because of experience lenee J yet Mr 11 Robison w would uld raise valuations and he lie is ise e evidently one of them that are arc classed classed class class- I j ed cd ed as They are arc wise to todo ovil evil butt butr i to do g good Od they have ll no knowledge gu |