Show FACTS BEYOND DISPUTE THE apologists for the course of the city council the city assessor and other city officials may use a all the sophistry at their command call those who criticize the servants of the people such names as are common in the pothouse vocabulary and tell what improvements are intended when the immense projected revenue comes in but they cannot cover up these patent facts that there is scarcely anything outside of previously inaugurated improvements Improvement 8 to show for the vast expenditures which have left an empty exchequer that though the percentage of ef taxation levied upon the people is lower than before the taxes are immensely higher because the valuations on property have been matte made without regard to the specified meaning of the revenue law or justice to the taxpayers or the interests of the city that in the assessments made 1 property has been placed at from three to ten times more than former figures that the city assessment to is vastly in excess of the county assessment ses which was complained of as far too high by taxpayers of every party that thy the monster petition for a reduction of the rate is signed by the leading business men and firms of the city ity by liberal eliberal as well as aa peoples and workingmen Working mens Is voters and by both rich and poor that it has been treated with contempt by some of the city council and ami is likely to be denied by the whole body that the intimation that criticism comes only from the old crowd from men who intend to abuse the city officers no matter what they do who have been at a standstill till for a generation who are of one sect and of a past era and who have sl al lurian lurlan nerve ner vea 11 is utterly false and absurd because it comes from live citizens of all sects grades and classes including the most active soa aca A progressive and practical men in the city these are facts that cannot be denied and it will be found that those who encourage the wrong that is sought to be perpetrated upon the taxpayers are not the friends of the city officers nor of the public they are rabid pa eizans ti who seek to bolster up the tools put in office to do their bidding and for whom it will be seen the bona fide solid and taxpaying residents have very little use they are running their shaky liberat Ll beral vessel upon the rocks of swift destruction |