Show AGAINST oppressive TAXES for sopie some 4 clays aya past ad t s copies of a petition se aeling ifil ng the i ty Cot council Anell to reduce the rate 0 of taxation from four to two and a half mills have been in circulation in all parts of the city and are heing being signed with avidity by by all classes and persuasions of citizens party lines are completely lost lest sight of jya in this movement A single list of names attached to a copy of this petition was seen today in the hands of a prominent business man who was interested in circulating it which represented wealth to the amount of about twenty million dollars there are a number of other lists in the hands of energetic circulators circulatory and it is probably safe to say that the owners of from thirty to forty million dollars worth of property in this city have bave already signed their names to a r request eruest to the city council to reduce t the e city tax as above stated the total assessment is fifty four millions and it is likely that three thre fourths if not more of this sum will be represented on the petitions by the time they are laid before thy the council Cou lacil cil in other words a practically unanimous protest by all the property owners in the city will go up to that body against the oppressive tax itsou which the council has hag voted to inflict upon them the member of the council who votes to disregard this protest will defy the wishes of nearly the whole body of his constituents expressed in words which bear their signatures |