Show AN anticipated VICTORY qt IT LOOKS very much as though the gentiles were going to gain a v victory over the mormons cormons in salt lake lafee city it will be a great thing for the owners of real estate in that town if the gentiles carry the next municipal election A gentile victory would be followed by an enormous rise in the value of city property the foregoing Is IB from the denver republican Sepu Wean it looks very much as though certain political wire pullers bullers pul lers liberal strikers and election manipulators were setting their traps and preparing their tricks to gain a vict victory oryl of fraud but it does not yet appear that they are going to succeed that remains to be seen but suppose that prognosticated victory should occur how much ofa of a great thing would it prove to owners of real estate why it is to cause an enormous rise in the value of city property well who will receive the enormous benefits from the enormous rise will it not be the speculators in real estate to people who wish to aall ell out their homes to strangers to those whose sole aim is the trails fer of their inheritances to the highest bidder to persons whose occupation is the purchase and sale of real estate for profit such an enormous rise ariae would no doubt be very desirable but to permanent residents who wish to live peaceably in the homes they have made for themselves the enormous rise would simply mean enormous taxes to the laborer the artisan the worker in any capacity for a living who has managed by thrift to acquire a residence dence of his own it would mean such a draft upon his small income as would compel his relinquishment of that possession to make way for a wealthier proprietor it has been published here that this is to become a city of the rich the schemes that are on foot involve the driving out of poor landholders and the possession posses of the soil by rich purchasers so that before long the wealthy would hol holi i the land and aad the houses bouses and the working people remaining here would rent instead of own their homes and be at the mercy of the landlords as in the cities of the world the policy of this community and of their leaders has been to promote the ownership of homes by as many permanent residents as possible the landl landlord Arci and tenant system is one of bondage and poverty it is incompatible with true liberty the people who settled this territory and those who have followed who are am in sympathy with them and their views should hold and retain the land to which they have acquired title as wisdom dictates to make a wholesale relinquishment of their posses possessions sious is a piece of folly too flagrant fla graut and senseless to be expressed in words every person of sense can see this and none understand it better than those who are endeavoring to induce or compel the small holders to sell out and move away and who denounce the defenders of the sound policy and pretend that their own designs are for the benefit of their dupes A sudden or abnormal rise in the value of real estate is held up so strongly as a thing to be desired dee ired that to question its benefits seems in f ome come peoples peopled eyes astounding but et common sense and an understanding of our situation in these valleys prevail and all these wildcat and booming schemes and arguments will appear as inimical to the welfare of the community we all desire gradual growth and progress in everything that tends to build up the territory but we do not all wish such a condition of affairs as will suddenly make a few rich to the detriment of the many and throw the local control into the hands of plotters and place hunters we need more improvements which mu must st be had as the city grows and they cannot be made without money the volume of the revenue must be increased but it can be swelled through the healthy expansion and the closer habitation which will come with natural and steady development and increase of population A sudden and enormous rise in taxation which could be effected in several ways that might be named without any change of chartered powers by legislation would have some advantages on the surface and would benefit a few but deep down in society it would be disastrous to the many and ruinous to some whose hopes and interests and faith are centered here and who desire to live and die here the victory spoken of by the denver republican would be a calamity in more ways than one if the permanent gentile residents can see their own permanent interests clearly and the sure results of such a victory they will not wish for it and certainly the great body of the people would see in it a shameful defeat for it can only be secured after all the intended frauds are attempted through the apathy and carelessness of the people and their failure to meet and overcome the tactics by which ogden city was captured through double distilled fraud and double dyed villainy |