| Show GOOD OLD DAYS NO MORE an aa a citizen and taxpayer I 1 have been lor for yearn yeara noticing the changes which have taken place in the governmental and financial affairs of our territory and I 1 have been led to believe that our arese prese present lt financial condition tion Is aue very largely to a lack jack of proper consideration on the part of the people in the selection rejection of the membern of our the person we bate selected to fill the various city county and territorial of office floer those whom we selected in the cities and counties count iee to fill the for many years after the first settlement Bett lemeut tf if trie territory were farmere and mechanics or their som eone and iby were in syr sympathy apathy with the peoples people and laborea faim faithfully fully and well lb ii he interests of the people they secured for their compensation a coti coll commensurate with the bf earnings earn inge of the common people they were satisfied and faithfully dis charged the duties of the various offices they were rejected elected to nil fill for a reasonable did not feel that to have office was to fatten on the hard bard earnings of the common people As a result no one was seeking Off office icell but when men were selected to fill 1111 art an office in the gift of the people as a matter of honor they accepted the position Dobi tion offered suit and discharged the duties thereof honestly and console conscientiously tiou sly the office sought the man the be man did not seek meek the office the result was that city county and terri taxes were low the cities were out of debt the counties out of debt the Ter territory citory out of debt but after awhile a change came the wise and good men who had made a residence in this territory possible the pioneers ghobad so eo wisely organ iced the territory and had enacted the good and wholesome laws which had kept us out of debt and yet haid had opened up our canyons bridged our rivers built our roads road brought out the mountain streams fur irrigating purposes opening up this whole section of ojue ajun try for settlements and at the same barns time kept the red man at bay those great men began to wear out and leave the be responsibility of continuing the structure they had erected to the carlo care of those who should follow after theta them the result has been that our legi laturen began to be filled with men who had bad filled various local offices la fa their respective cities and counties and who had bad begun to seek office they wanted hither hit her salaries and more fees and when once they had the legill live ive power in their banos they used that power to build up their own interests and disregarded the interests of the people in order that they might receive more fees and higher salaries ibe taxes of the people peaple must be tn in cresse dand they increased them they made the offices very desirable and from that time on our taxes have steadily increased and in the same game ratio office seekers have til today to get office mane mana m ane ana to got get a fat thi ihirg jugl and to fl fleece jece the com common laola deop people e li it has now reached a pass when wheal office holders who work from six to eight hours a day think they should receive from to 20 per month while the laboring man is glad to aei t 80 per month there are but few if auy of these theae officeholders office holders such as county clerks assurors assur ors collectors re calders carders cord car ders en etc ate who have the experience or ability of the common farmer and yet they demand and expect more salary than the farmer can realize from froin nis ale own labor and the capital he haa baa invested in his farm and machinery A girl from one of our district schools where she decides to call herself a teacher and go into a school expect more per annum than the well belmo to do farmer it there be any bob can realize from hla his farm when a bill was presented in our jaet Leg iture to out cut down the fees of county of officers ficere a voice went up against again atit it from officers throughout the territory I 1 notice that the bar association of utah in their judiciary department of the ibe of utah provide that the district judges shall receive not less leas than per annum each which is just about the earnings of ten food solid farmers on their farms that same kind of legislative enact munt ment has baa already plucked plunked the territory and almost every county and city into debt and him has sold old many a home for taxes will the people tote vote to sustain such a constitution which will provide for burdens which are need lew less and which they will be unable to bear the people desire statehood and they want a constitution which will not compel future to rob the people and it is in nay my humble bumble opinion that bat if there is a foundation laid in the constitution for the oppression of the people unnecessarily the he people will not adopt it and they should not they should goold wake up to their own interests and look well into the contents of the proposed constitution and protect their rights while they can aud they should inaugurate a plan ol of retrench me which would make jt it possible for us unto to free ourselves from bondage in every department of our government alf legal lore is in at such a premium that thai lit it is ii entitled to ten timet timed the rem remuneration u of an agricultural or mechanical education then alien by all means let us send end our sons to the law schools by the doore core that we may be able to supply the demand and have our work done for a consideration consistent with that paid for other services |
