| Show CANT AFFORD IT ir recent municipal election while teaching ing prospectively tar far enough the lines of reform I 1 am con means helwa reformation and inaus tt of a more economic ec govern tw ifor the city I 1 am now very n favor of our school board rethe direct attention of the tax bet us indulge in the hope that broaching election will be conill the interests i of the men and who pay the taxes and upon rests the heavy burden of sus the ne tree free public schools of which city boasts so many anany excel thi the pd st economy do does es not seem to have been considered by the members of our present school board the question that seems to have been paramount in their minds was does the school board deem it expedient that a new school house should be built in this or that district and they seem to have asked themselves only about the propriety of maintaining a city free high school and in knowing that under the law they could estimate in advance in a careless manner the necessary amount needed for school purposes which demand upon the treasurer would have to be met no amount of protest from the individual taxpayer or from the public generally changes the amount that they as the city school board feel to levy upon the home owners and business men the amount required from the public treasury for school purposes for the school year 1897 1 I am I 1 informed was three hundred and twenty thousand dollars from their own showing it appears that the gentlemen comprising the board only carelessly estimated the amount needed and though to the mind of the taxpayers this vast sum should cover all school expenses for one year yet by their own report the snug little additional sum of between thirty and fifty thousand dollars has been borrowed from treasurer barnett to eke out the meager allowance now I 1 believe I 1 have liberal views on educational matters and at the same time that I 1 and the rest of the taxpayers are so munificently paying for the education not only of our own children but of our neighbors as well that there will need to be a limit some I 1 where otherwise before the children complete their education and arrive at the destined goal through the mad educational cat ional whirlpool through which they are being crowded regardless of their physical endurance I 1 say long ere these fond hopes of the salt lake school board can be realized at the present rate of demand many of these taxpaying parents will be gone where the woodbine gwineth with their toes turned up to the daisies and if a truthful inscription is written on their tomb it must needs be something like the following here lies the body of one of many who were overburdened taxpayers as a remote cause caus e of death immediate cause continuance in office of the present city school board I 1 understand there is a movement now being started by some of the members of the present school board and those of their sympathizers to I 1 make nominations of men for members of the new board who will pledge i themselves in advance to maintain the public free high school that has already cost the taxpayers such vast sums of money if times were good and the people of all classes were not t already groaning under unbearable assessments sess ments from city and county taxes and assessments of school boards I 1 too would be in favor of extending our facilities for education but when I 1 take into consideration the fact that we have within the city limits facilities for obtaining a good start for all ail our children in educational matters in our established free district schools also we have a goodly number of high schools and colleges conducted by able teachers under the patronage of almost every religious boete society ty known in the country and that th at over and above all we have our glorious state university I 1 think with au all these facilities tor for learning the taxpayers may be given a rest so far as the free city high school is concerned true this would only be a drop in the bucket but as it is he las ins straw that breaks the camels back give the tired ta taxpayers x the benefit of the drop dont pile on he last straw when the primaries shall meet or a mass meeting be held in the precincts or elsewhere I 1 urge upon all taxpayers 1 male and female to be present and make their presence felt by nominating men for the new school boada who the known to be economical honest bust business ryn men men who will have some regardA ir for the well being of the enair taxpayers and ama school children alike ylike like considered in their present future and welfare SEYMOUR B YOUNG |
