Show THE RATE OF CITY TAXATION thin THE question of the rate of taxation with which the city council has to contend la one of great importance to the people of this city there are two propositions before the Coux council icil one for five mills on the dollar the other for 1318 seven even we do not wish to limit the managers of city finances 0 so o that needed public improvements cannot be made or that the proper expenses of the municipality cannot be met but the wise among them will take note of the public sentiment and the public capabilities we need not remind them that money is scarce that is to say difficult to get hold of and that it is hard bard to make collect collection ione neither need we attempt to show that high taxes are unpopular they always are the high rate caused a storm of indignation last year pear it to is likely to do so now money to is needed of course to carry on the affairs of the city but there Is no necessity for overburdening the tax payers moderation in expenditures and moderation in taxing will suit the public and the city officers are upman posed poised to be the servants not the i term of the people give div 9 us as low a rate as is in consistent with good government economic economically administered dont heed the lavish and extravagant propositions proposition ji of cf real estate boomers have some regard to property owners who are not rich is in money do not oppress the taxpayers ers put the rate down as an low as possible under existing circumstances 1 and in view of inevitable expenses don dona at be extravagant violation of the law unmolested chief paul captain donovan and their aids aide have been endeavoring to carry out the mayor mayors a Instruct instructions iong I 1 and a number of violators of the he sun bun 4 day liquor law jaw have lately been ar I 1 rested J at this point an obstruction appe ap peare arg 1 A number of cases of persons charged I 1 with running saloons on sunday were tried before police justice kesler hosier year 1 erday and the highest fine imposed on any one of them was 16 15 Is this bis meant as a notification to vais this class of violators 1 of the law that they can contina cont inu to conduct their business on Sunda sunday with comparative impunity as they can easily pay a paltry fine and stilla have a handsome profit it is said one of the liquor men arrested informed K w friend that he sold on last sunday thirteen and a half barrels of beer 9 and that there were on that day as aa many as am seventy five men in his hie saloon another liquor man remarked ct to a NEWS reporter yesterday 6 ren ler is all right he is standing in with the boys how can the ordinances be encore enforced under these the chief magistrate of the city expressed i bis big opinion of the police justice in his hia report on the recent police 1 scandals Kes Keel lero erld conduct was exhibited in that connection in a manner that showed him to be unfit for the position he be holds his gingerly treats treat ment of the whisky men who violate the laws is another point in the same direction |