| Show BETTER BE JUST IT is 18 stated that an am the protestants against the new street sprinkling ar ran gement do not represent sent a majority of the owners of front foot measurement along the streets to be sprinkled the city council will not change the proposed assessment but will proceed to make collection we hope this re port will prove to be a mistake surely the members of the council F do not want to add one more grievance to the list of complaints against them from the distressed taxpayers surely they will not insist upon pushing a measure that must be obnoxious to a large majority of the citizens surely they do not want to be written down as perpetrators of undoubted injustice surely they have some respect for fairness and the rights of the public surely they do not want to cover themselves with everlasting obloquy the fact that when tho protest was presented the signers did not represent the majority of values to is no evidence that only the minority object to the tax the document was hastily drawn and circulated in a hurry we are certain that the proposed scheme is favored only by occupants of the business part of the city and by them solely on the ground that they will gain large benefits at small expanse while the burden will fall upon people who will get but little if any good from the service we hope the council will not proceed to enforce the policy which is regarded by fair people throughout the city as a mistake better correct the artor now and do justice to the taxpayers than to fasten upon the city a tax that ip if manifestly unfair and must render the men who pile it upon the shoulders of the people entirely distasteful and brand them as tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies and blind to reason |
