Show STRONG SHOULD C HELP TUG TilE WEAK I To the Editor In the earnest and thoughtful discus discussion dl cus sion Of ot the financial situation of ot tho the Stilt Ball Lake City shoots that has hns ap up appeared peered In our dolly journals of ot late a n aVery ner Very tery er Important feature connected with It has hn been so 10 conspicuous by Its ab absence Renee sence as to afford un tin excuse tar for the following explanations and remarks Statements by b members of ot the school board and other comments that have lIae appealed In the News are calculated to make the city taxpayers taxpayer feel tee I that they the are laboring under a very ery grievous ous ouM and unjust burden because n a 1 por pore portion tion of at tho the school tax collected In the used In the county schools and antl the Legislature which amended the thu state elate ate constitution con so 10 as tie to make this condition possible Is la blamed us as having done the citizens of oC Salt alt Lake a grave Injustice Taxes ever considered burdensome are lire doubly doub so 10 when hen the taxpayer feels they tIe are arc In tiny an degree unjust or op Ope oppressive and that this thin feeling may not spread to undue proportions n II state statement statement ment from another point of or view Is re reo submitted The writer was wall a n member of ot the Legs Leg Legislature which brought about the amendment referred to and worked earnestly to secure It He lie then lived In ln the county count outside of ot the city though he paid IlaM and n nd still pays pas much more tax In the city than outside eg Q he was wee working against his own financial Interest In supporting the measure objected to by other payers of at atell city ell taxes Some Borne of ot the reasons which actuated him and which he still con considers riders elders right are ate as follows tollos First Our state constitution and laws provide f for tor r free tree schools and com compulsory compulsory education In this respect It becomes the parent patent of or the children and It c should distribute Its bene ne fits as equally equall ns nl possible among Its children A one mill tax levied and spent event In Salt Ball Lake Lako City would give ghe each ench student In 11 Its schools far tur more money than In any an district of at the county coun county county ty outside of ot the city On the theory that the burden burdens and benefits of or gov governments governments should be distributed ns as near nearly nearly ly I equal ns as possible the wealthy cen centers centers must contribute to tho the Ics lees wealthy While a n largo large number of or orthe the city taxpayers pet hups a 0 majority opposed strongly at a n shoot school tax of or 1124 G 26 mills to maintain tile the excellent schools we proudly boast of ot what would they think of ot n a special tax of ot 10 or even een 12 mills mafia which people In many of ot our country countr districts have to pay In order to 10 sustain their schools so 80 your poor In c com comparison m parl parison on with those of at the city Great Client aggregations of at wealth gravitate tate tale Into the city elt and pour their abundant abundant ant tint taxes Into Its cotters coffers but the money raised for Cor taxes In the country general generally ly h comes cornu direct from tom the Industrious toiler taller and Is IR Indeed n a felt burden but butto butto butto to maintain free tree schools he ho must pay paya a n much larger school tax than his fel tel fellow tellow fellow low taxpayer In the city ell and then gets getson an on Interior interim school Second It the school taxes were all nit collected by b the state slate and distributed equally per capita which It seems to tome tome me Inc would not be unjust the dense pop population elation of at the city would even then give 1110 the time city schools a great advantage The larger huger number of ot school children would draw nn an amount that would enable bet better better ter buildings better teachers super supervisors supervisors furnished visors and equipments to be furnished than would be possible pos In the more spared parce settled country districts Third other county and nM state expenses ore borne from rota a common tux tax whose rate Is ts equal on all why should not the school chool expenses be met In a similar WRY way w ay the taxpayer In Inthe Inthe inthe the country countr object with equal reason ren on to supporting the Judicial department when 95 per cent of ot the litigation goes oeR to benefit benen reI residents of at the city Or why wh should hould he not be relieved l from tromA u A the burden of ot the poor house filled with willi the poor lOor from the city The rite wise wiRe and practical men who ho founded d our commonwealth and nude mil our territorial laws took the view vies and no ne distinction between the this city and the rent reef of ot the Iho county in distributing school choal taxes and their do doIngs doIngs Ings tags would never noer have havo been changed lit ht the constitutional convention hind nil Ite It II members known the legal of Dr the word maintain used In tn canner connection tion with provisions of ot the constitution ullon relating feinting to city 11 schools and the Iho objectionable objectionable c amendment would never nevel hove have ha been n R necessity The very ely foundation nf ot our public school system Is the and an no nu noble blo ble object of ot giving ll rich and ml poor the benefits of oC tin en n equal tion It Is IR the great leveler and Is III Justified In the argument lt that nil all the thi citizens of It n republic bo ho edu educated rated for tor the welfare of or tho the republic Intelligence Is III more marc easily and cheaply controlled thaw Ignorance and ond It If tin this rich Individual should enjoy no advantage In these theBe mutters matters neither should hould n rich community It If unit Salt Lake City cnn can levy collect mod expend with within th thIn in ht Itself Its own school taxes why wh can cannot cannot not hot n a wealthy ward within It do de the th mine and thus escape the burden burdon of or assisting a poorer ward The rune same name argument carried a step slop lo futher to the 1111 Individual wealthy seen at nl once on I Ito to In be absolutely with any form torm of ot government whatever In view of ot these the e reasons and condi cool conditions lions It I seems to me mil It Is no unjust burden upon Halt Lake City lity to give ICIe to the county schools tho the portion they Ihl now receive of ot the school tax It ll pays pas unless all nil forms torms of ot taxation lire are unjust There Is in no reason why the tho country boy should hould lu uld not become b come us liS good n zen len ns as the city boy ho bo The fhe welfare orthe or of orthe the state depends no 10 more upon the one on titan than upon Pon the other and therefore there tore they the both bolh should houll have hae equal opportunity to become the best of at citizens 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