Show AN ARGUMENT AGAINST PAVING To tho the Editor E r I with many ninny others am opposed to tho time paving of ot South Temple street at this time Ume tot for the tho following reasons It Is a n luxury xury l and anil not clot a necessity and this flits fact must be bl apparent to every taxpayer In the city When we wo look over the city anti and an we roe wethe 18 time the lack of ot sidewalks everywhere scarcely a IL street running north and south line lias a II sidewalk we ve believe bellevo tIme the expenditure of ot a 11 few tew thousand dollars en VII side ido walks will benefit most people I ople because nil the lie people use these walles l t i but a II few teW would receive any ben bemm c from the time paving of ot South Temple street treet Second Tho large majority of ot the people on South Temple street are op opposed opposed opposed posed to this paving because they CUll can cannot CUllIl not Il t afford it Just now unit and to compel these people to mortgage their homes homeR to please a few tow wealthy men immen and lIntl wo woo women Then men n would wo ll be a 0 most Inhuman act of ot the city council There are men Immen and women on oil this street old Pioneers who have hao lived hero here for Cor over GO CO years ears have been baen good citizens and taxpayers all these years have huo labored struggled and suffered to build their present homes dug dUI time the ditches and planted trees tr s made the adobes and antl bricks brick which now shelter them and made mad It l possible for tor these thue people who wiio now de do inand this pavement to come comae here bere and andi i erect their mansions 1 Then there thero are other things which should be bc taken Into consideration our bonded bonde Indebtedness s Is now I upon which we are arc compelled to pay Y annually In Interest alone Our Income tram train all sources II Is but leaving heaving but to expend for all nil purposes by the this city council Our con COli expenses last year were 33 leaving us tie behind our In Income Income income come Now let UI us go RO further Our school debt is upon ch Ich we wo pay PlY In Interest over Then there thero Is I our proportion of ot the tho county debt ft St I This would be Then cornel comes our proportion of ot the state debt of ot 0 which would bo Lo over or a II total at ot over debt which hanga hamig like the time sword of o Or Orthe r the heads of at the people of ot Suit SnIt and which like hike death they must pay IJa This would be bo over 77 per ocr capita capito of ot debt for tor every man woman and child In our city and amid notwithstanding this awful debt a few men and women whom fortune tins has favored In iii the tho last lost few tew years earll demand that the city con continue to further plunge e Into debt and Increase tho the burdens on the backs of the common people without any ony use lens hess le ll expenditure Thereafter our taxes which Are now ow enormous 3 S 21 per cent on a 70 per por percent percent cent valuation are going to Increase se for we have In III the time last two years sold worth of or city property which linn hall been expended not to curtail our enormous debt but hut to pay necessary expenses of the city We are told that It If South Temple street Is paved tourists pasting passing through our city will be delighted Ye gods must We mortgage our homes bomes that a Q afew few to people who largely look on us with contempt may ma see something pleasing to the he eye ee This city of at ours by right of or discovery and our labor our toll toil our suffering and ani sorrows have made It H what w nt Is b Is Ia today at atthe atthe atthe the last bat conference never gave ga C the peo plo people pIe more wholesome whole ome advice than when he advised them to get out of ot debt and the same game will apply to our city affaIrs affair Every Iver man knows a great financial crash cruh Is II coming It cannot be bo much longer delayed and when It does come caine Ime our people will be bl prostrate and help len lew nt at the feet of at those tho e who now de desire delIre site sire to place n a 1 greater burden upon our backs Then there ther ore more other reasons why WI hr It If I left to the people of Salt Lake rAke this useless expenditure eXI would not be bo made I Every taxpayer no mutter matter where he lives hives mu must t contribute to pay this thia ex cx x I pen The 1111 city engineer estimates s It 11 would I cost tho the city that Is the city t portion of the time expense enlo The Time people on Eighth South and Fifth North Menu must mUltI mustI I bear their proportion of at this oni an let me n nak ak k what b benefit n will wiil they receive I J There ore are many other reasons might offer but I would suggest that an honest of ot evaluation equalizatIon an nn hon honest est eat assessment an Income tax tat prose prosecution oro cution euthon and ond forfeiture of at the property of ot tax dodgers and Antl nd they are very er nu flu numerous In an on honest honeil expert of ot our t which represents the blood and anil loll oll of ot our honest citi citizens seas zens J nR would In time relieve oUt our peo people pIe and nd help ui out of ot the tolls toll of ot the I Anaconda which Is I slowly but hut surely us Ui In Its slimy folds I Yours Your truly CHARLES RIES CHANG GnAN |