Show A COMMON CAUSE THE popular feeling in this city against the oppressive taxation imposed by the present city government is deep seated and general extending to all classes of the community there is a strong desire among the people to resist by all moral means what is justly regarded as a well nigh fi financial ancial burden the sentiment is so pronounced and broad that it is a matter of ast astonishment onlah ment that there should be a local journal having the temerity to ignore it such however is the case as will be observed by the following which appeared in the columns of the leading an anti ti mormon organ the old pillars of the only church are out against the projected improvements of the city they have got up a petition which is going about begging for signatures requesting a reduction of the taxes the property holders who have signed so far belong to the one sect and to the past era they have remained at a standstill for a generation and look with ill concealed contempt on the progress being made by everything except the temple and that boesso goes so slow that it does not rasp their silurian siluria a nerves with a sort of unreasoning blind fatuity the paper referred to butts its head against a stone embankment not considering that the petition itself within easy reach for examination furnishes a complete refutation of its absurd position the document will soon we presume be in the hands of the council then if not sooner it will be shown demonstratively strat ively that the anti oppressive taxation movement is 19 neither mormon Gnor entile but one in which all classes of citizens join in a common cause having a common grievance prom from what we have been able to learn today concerning the petition if not another signature were to be added the statement about its going begging for signatures would be completely refuted by its present status the reason for the publication of the falsehood that the movement is a mormon one is clear those who are seeking to ta thus mislead the public are evidently in hopes hom of re barding the progress of the effort to induce the council to lighten a grievous public burden which however does not bear upon non property holders we will prove the quality of the statement that the property holders who have signed so far belong to the one sect and the past era etc following are among those who attached their names to the anti excessive tax petition all of the walker brothers auerbach brothers henry W lawrence union pacific railway company by P li L williams P L williams personally J E dooly john Cunnington Culmer brothers B R alff cohn brothers goldsmith co barratt brothers kahn brothers arbogast and trumbo william R S godbe alexander rogers co gas company and electric light company by frank H dyer mark mar mckimmins 8 C ewing AC smith co bey thos carter rio blo grande west ern railway company by robert harkness Hark nesa joslin fc park boyd park P F W little J W parrell farrell 0 P miles and a host of other well known and substantial business men of the same class if there is any difference in the feeling in regard to resisting the unprecedented taxation it is more intense among leading gentiles than among mor mons MODS this thim is a fact regarding ahl which h there need be no mistake the object in holding back by the assessor at the instance of the city council of the assessment notices until after the county election was understood at the time had they been issued before that occurrence the liberal party would have received a setback from which it would have had considerable difficulty to recover now comes a popular demand from the people of the city aside from all political or other differences an and d affinities on a question which vitally affects the whole community if the council shall have the temerity to ignore it the future effect of such a position will be the same as that which was anticipated in case the assessment notices had been issued before the late county election should the wishes 0 of f the united constituencies of salt lake city be ignored by those who ought to act as their public servants and not their task masters the fact will do to place in pickle for future use party fealty must dissolve when the people have to choose between it and the carrying of burdens un der which they sweat and stagger the latter position is only fit for human asses whose capacity for enduring wrong far exceeds their common sense and manly independence pen dence |