| Show OF INTEREST TO CARBON COUNTY wyoming with a population of only four thousand is issuing bonds bearing six per cent interest for a hundred thousand dollars the county tax alone in 1885 was ten and a half mills on the dollar the interest on toe the bonds bands will of course raise the percentage this Is the usual method of finances in the states and territories and hence the high rate of taxation the policy la in utah has been to keep butof out of debt and keep down the taxes that is the I 1 mormon I 1 style if the legislation which some people here seem se em ready to endorse prevails it will be but a short time till there will be a bonded debt in every county in utah fancy a county with only oni tour lour thousand people sweating unter under a hundred thousand thou 1 I dollars daht and larger counties in proportion there are many respectable gentiles I 1 here who acknowledge ledge the honest and economical administration of ocal public affairs say that they dread a chi change because of the increase it will wille involve in taxation but are yet too fearful to protest because of the lash of the scoundrels who are trying to effect a revolution and who contribute nothing to the revenue the agitators a Ita tors and crusaders who have plotted the mischief that threatens utah are not as a rule ers the contributors to the support of bf public affairs the profitable and decent gentile element they are those hose who have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the change desired and afe are work working 1 lor for personal ends either political or 01 financial |
