Show THE PRESENT TAX LAW the third plank of the republican platform reads that in addition to the present provisions ol of law giving to county courts tile right to remit tie maxs of tile poor and infirm persons p eleone we favor the passage ea e of a law exempting from taxation the property of widows where the same does not exceed in value the sum of 1000 this tax question is one in which we are arc all interested more or less but since it comes up in the alio course of a t political campaign 0 let us examine into it arid and ascertain if possible who is responsible for our present tax laws in the first place the bill requiring high of property was introduced by james T and it received the support of all the cache county members odthe of alio territorial legislature lei le 0 i s atthe at the timo time the bili was introduced and the present law enacted cache county was represented by james T efam mond joseph II and C F P olsen it is needless to add that these men aro are all republicans today the county court now has the ri right 0 ht to remit taxes levied upon poor widows as well as those levied upon the infirm and indigent and it is a well known fact the t he county court exercises that right under the law as it noxy now reads so it seems that the only object of the third plank in the republican platform is to force its candidate for the council mr flammond ammond II to explain the course lie he took the last time he be was in the legislature |