Show TIlE THE PLATFORM AN AND ND TilE THE AMEND AMENDMENTS TS E r r i Y By LA At the thc dC state convention there was there was a vigorous fight to put IUt the Democratic convention on record as us vl approval of ot the amendments The Thc writer writ writ- f er wa was on the committee of platform f and anti opposed the pur party ap ap approval approval p- p pro al of the amendments The Tho fight for or the thc amendments ments finally went down dow downin 1 in bitter hitter defeat deCent led by Dr J. J H. H Paul Pauland and amI a Mr Jensen from Ogden The Thc platform I advises ad the people to read and weigh the amendments to the best of oi their ability nu and vote Ute accord according in ing their best judgment That is Js a o aIt oit it ho should ld lie be It had Ji never cr occurred oc ll d to the committee that for n a a state board to both the valuations of oC property and the rate of asses assessment was tomake to tomake make a n brittle inelastic st c a and J inflexible x lle tax tux system that forebodes cs ill and disaster dis dis- disaster dis- dis aster t to the people of the state of f Ut Ut- ah uh After this and anti other matters were forcefully presented the committee swung a against the endorsement of the thc amendments an and advised only careful care care- tel ful consideration of the same by the voters ot ers The committee committee was told tl that at only about du one per percent ceri pf of the people wo would ld read tile the amendments and o only ly a small small fraction fraction of the people would understand un un- them them after t they 1 did rea read 1 1 the thiem Flint the e committee om hated the tho amendments didn't under- under them theft and anel the legislature was M as a much at sea as the committee That Dr L. L Lutz the expert e from I Princeton did eill not comprehend that our valuations for for- are Ire not 60 GO I Iper per cent of the thereal real values as h ho and aUlI the committees stated hut but that the M so- so o- o called CalVI cl GO CO per cent is the full valuation I because the tux tax is so 80 great that Jt It t destroyed des des- troyed 1 about IQ lq f pel per cent of the lie values des and and nd Whit what these bc experts thought was the freal feul l s' s was only what the values val viii- I. ues ties ought to h be lie and onel would be it If th the taxes tuxes had hud been lowered to what it 1 ought tobe and should he be ii I i 1 Neither elther the legislature nor the exports ex ex- ports understood this Neither did Ur lr Jr I Paul our famous political mist But Dut tim the power to to tax is s er to destroy it thaI dhel ml the high hn e actually destro destroyed ed about 4 40 per cent vent of orthe the property value Senator Knox Patterson n when the p point iut was being mud made that not even en the committees understood un un- derst od these interrupted interrupt interrupt- ed eu el the discussion to say that the state statement was isas true and Mr Patterson Patter Patters son was one of active members mem- mem bers of or those committees lIe He was honest honest hon lion est est enough and deep thinker think r en enough ugh to know the truth of that that- criticism on and 1 to publicly c. c it All honor donor to a o omun n man mun in who can think I clealy and is willing to tell the world his hiso I o opinion wherever where ii it iima ma may hit lilt |