| Show THE SOLONS ON TAXATION the city council last evening was wrestling with the matter of taxation and the proceedings were strictly characteristic with but few exceptions we question of expend len ey seemed the prevailing feature the matter was waa not disposed of but will be the bone of contention for at least one and it may be several more meetings at the rate of one hundred dollars per meeting one member thought it better to give men employment emali than to fill up the city with thieves and crooks and if we must accept of the alternative undoubtedly be la right but did a community ever yet pay an un desir ratio atile class claas of people a fixed price to he be lot let alone and make a commercial success of it it is ie only Leoe L eo esary essary to let it be known that to salt lake a tou too h b 11 gets a job to prevent him from plying his hie regular calling and there will he be an influx of bt that class clasa such auch as will make it necessary leary to provide some more offices to be filled at the peopled peddle s expense indeed it is in partly shown that many of those thoe who are holding places now belong to that very element to the detriment of our financial system and an 1 the deprivation of upright bona fide citizens who are unable to obtain employment will such a wrong be cured or even palliated pallia ted by providing for its continuance apart from this la Is it right or juit that uch a system find favor at all the reply of another member that it was just such characters that were being employed while perhaps a little too general ce in its application could not have been wide of the mark the following words of mr karrick have the right ring I 1 dont believe we can stand any increase of taxation the financial condition of the people and the country wont warrant it I 1 am in favor of cutting down expenses we must do it or we will bankrupt the people we can easily do away with one fourth of the fellows who hold fat of offices floes why it to is outrageous criminal to get et up here and an d spout t about the necessity ol of improvements under the present financial strain it the money does not go back to the people it goes to the men who come in nere here and stay for a month or two for certain purposes and then get out again they are not the taxpayers they are noi not the people and they are not desirable de sizable citizens biti oiti there are precious few people who will have the temerity to criticise criticism critic ise those remarks and noue none at all but those that are personally interested in maintaining any kind of system how ever vicious or corrupt that keeps them and theirs in place |
