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Show THE PROVO POST, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2ff, 192(T -- ' b I Mr. Cox on Armenia Who Won the War Don't Forget Your Tax Notice Values Farms and Utilities DeficitsOld and New Road Taxes and Roads ; ! CHRISTMAS By Francis G. Matson. CANDIDATE COX, Based on an eight-hou- r day. It costs per minute to maintain the overhead on the state road commission. This includes Its-- army of employees, Including surveying parties. after v West, modifies his an equivocal endorsement of the Wilson League and the Wilson administration. lie now says he is not in favor of a mandate for Armenia, vdhJch Is one af Wilsons pet schemes. He also says that Bnrleson and Palmer are "good - fellows," hut he loes not approve of many of their ade ministrative acts and policies. If Cox had remained a Uttle longer in the West, with Ills aptitude for somersaulting, be might land on the. $1 7 In the four years that the present state administration has controlled Jhe state, the expenses,- including the dollar road bond Issue,' which has largely been frittered 'away,' has milf been more than eight and lion "dollars more than the previous administration, which was Republican. Join it Now - Cau-flldat- one-hal- -- platform. Your Choice of the Follow- - Declaration that no part of the money used In construction of state roads was raised by direct taxation, hut that such funds were Obtained from bond sales and motor vehicle taxation, wasttiHde by" Candidate T, N, Taylor --at a Democratic meeting held recently In Vernal. asks a resident of the "Then, Uintah basin, "why Is it that a three-mi- ll tax levy for state road purposes has been necessary Jn each of the past three years as a part of the Kjm-mewhereby Uintah appnty might federal funds (jf .joatf bunding purposes? ( - Not the WHO administration: It has but - little ground for t - - It failed 4a preparedness. It Tailed In It filled the air lyith accomplishment fine phrases and spent the people's money. WJlvo won the war! The people, whose greatheart was stirred Jo sacrifice and whose funds flowed out tiTIflnffdd ens tren nrrt B n t, a boreall, It was the man with the gun, the - American soldier, the best In the world. He won the war. won the war? nt f ls de- - dared war on Germany, Mr. . Cox's editorially prayed that the ueit unu lifted to wield the sword so foolishly should be paralyzed. The next arm that waa lifted to wield the was the arm of the I nited States of America. Americans want no leader in 1921 who was a newspaper sw-or- - In 1916, your home x Sonoras ' Strong preseure has been brought Sends a Piano to your home - K ; ( Columbia Grafonolas to induee Mr. BryantoUke part. Bgrfslm-or-f- or the purpose of co- Dk.In the Cox campaign He miM ercing any other country, or for the - start out an address intervention io. liioiutcrnal. jJ purjette-o- f made last May in which he declared conflict-- , or other controversies which j that Coxs nomination would make may arise in any oMwt country, and m the Democratic party the leader ef mandate shall lie accepted by tb the lawless element of the country, C1 States unfit r Artklq XXII, and hla election, If such a tiling ol the treaty of peace with G wars possible, would turn the Whits bxccpt l.y fiction of the Cong ( House over to those who defy the the United States. I government and hold law In - con- 'What valid Objection, then, can Cantempt didate Cox Interpose to this reservaA tion? .The fact that ninny scholarly Interpreters of the English language have construts. Article X to mean that You go tu the poll take WHEN s. monthly satisfactory to every customer . will be arranged ; terms - from 6 to 20 months to v, 'complete the purchase. Victor, Columbia or Edison Records j- YU The New afford to 0311 t - of your own selection may be included. -- the phono-grap- h unequalled for tone, design and portant features. Free Deliv ery made to any j TNtiiuTftUMtKt6 ouurrv - ' . Compare It with what you have paid in the past. , An Increase of 25 to 40 per cent. Then ask yourself the question, why the increase? The - answer - is - easy. Reckless extravagance In all branches of the state government, due to Innumerable a tremendous overhead. It costs you $1000 a day increase over four years ago just Jo pay the salaries of those Democrats who had to bf provided for out of your taxes. i our boys may lie ordered to foreign countries demonstrates ttiat there is question Involved In It uikiii vwliitSi reasonable men may differ. The reservation makes It so plain that we can all understand it alike. But President Wilson says No; It shall be my league, or none, and Candidate Cox says "Me, too. POWER COMPANY "de-sen'ln- g HAS TWO VALUES ... Utah 1oWer and TJgM In its report to the public utilities commission, showed a valuation of $42,000,000, of which 60 per THE cent Is lir t Utnhr- - purposes. - The assessinettf - This! for Rates Are Fixed on Another; Small Property Owners Suffer. PaysTaxeson " " TWO valuations arc the pntde by - the state board of equalization placed- a valuation on the property of $14,164,109, or s less than the value almost g purposes. given for Your farm was assessed at around $14 per acre. Your assessor placed a value of that much upon It. Appraisers did likewise. The state board of equalization and assessment Increased this valuation Jo $42 per acre, Just three times the value which your assessor placed on It. Why? The valuation given shows why. You could ba reached. The present state admlnl-- . tratlon appointed the board of equall-fxatio- n. Power vFor In placed Light company, ' ; purposes the valuation, as fixed by the public utilities commission, of which 60 per cent, or $25,200,000, is In Utah. This Is the valuation upon which rates are' computed? the, theory used being that the rates should be high enough to give a fair return on the capital In? vested. ? But when It comes to paying taxes a different valuation fixed by the state board of equuUza. tton.. The , assessed valuation of j the company, as fixed by that body, and m' supposedly coveting all of Its property The legislature, whose majority was in Utah, Ja $14,164,109, or less than a of the valuation used' for overwhelmingly with the administrai g . of four salaries Increased the purposes. , the tion, members of the state board of equali- ' Whenever any property in the state zation from $1500 each to $4000 per escapes valuation or Is under-value- d the taxes which Should have been paid year. This la one reason why your taxes for that property must be met by the re at the breaking point owner of some other property. There- fore, the direct result'd the double When the preeeni state admlnls-- valuation as Its affects you Is that you tratlon took possession of the state pay high rates for your power, and as there waa a deficit to be met ef a.result of the low valuation placed about a quarter million dollars. on Ihe power companys property for When It retiree from ita place on I taxation purposes you are paying a proportionately higher tax to the state. 1 next the deficit which it r January Incidentally, the last Session of the adwill turn ever to the Incoming ministration will aggregate In round state legislature, which Vas controlled number en million dollars, the re-- j by the present administration. Insuit of extravagance in every branch creased the salaries of the four mein-j- l This I In add!-- 1 her of the board of equalization from j of the government. tion to the extraordinary increase In $1500 to $4000 a year, and that mean taxes, too. i taxes which you have to meet rate-maklp- $42,-000,0- g two-thtrd- rate-nmkln- i . L t ,1 ,, , IJ I Utah property of the Utah & Kimball CkKAft. A A MLL point though matchlessT in quality, costs no more Phonographs Kimball Pianos Kimball Player Pianos INTERMOUNTAIN. IN-TH- E STATES. Robinson Bros. Service one than merely ordinary phonographs. There are over a score of models, and whether you pay $60 or $2500 or any of the prices One rate-maki- pay-nent- .. i tar notice with yea. .Convenient , - ! - $10.00 ! 1 " t rcai Is as follows: "That the. Culled Stales dei lines to iisMinte, under the provisions of Ap-- ' tide N, or under any other article any obligation to preserve the territorial Integrity or political Indepm-denc- e or any other country, or to In-- 1 terfere in controvoralcs between other t at Ions, members of the league or not, ur to employ the mlMnVy or naval J forces of the United States eonfrm ersles, or to adopt economic ' measuiis for the protection of any other country, whi iher a member of ttu league or not, against external four Sends a. ) 7 1.1, $5.00 Victrolas ob-ta- in not believe there is a single beThe same voter ask what Democratic senator whs mtluld, not come of the $20,000 collected eaA yi 4 vote for thisVesolution ef ratifica- in Uintah county uiul turned over tQ tlon if It were not for thq. belief of the state road commit. Jon. such senators that the President of. the United States desires them to de- Candidate Cox says it? is not true feat the resolution of ratification tluifundof' the terms of the league would their and regard mtowpendfnjfr covenant,' as Wilson and he want t, failure to do to at a refusal to folAmei lean troops may ,'be ordered ft) low hlo view a d party leader.". Senator Owen, Democrat, In the foreign countries, . Very welt, thenL; In plain words? The United States Senate, March 19, why not say-s-o - 1920. proposed reservation to Article K ' ing Standa rd Makes: - "1 do 1910. lute us December AS months before tills - country Join it Now : year free, including oiling, Vraphiting and replacing, of broken parts. Phone or write to-- ; b ' I. s day. between, you get Sonora quality. and magnificent value. t i M i MAIL THIS COUPON Robinson Bros. Music Co. , Gentlemen : Please . send ,me full details of your Christmas club. Mark X opposite your choice. - - , r - Sonora. 1 Columbia Graphonola. lThe New Edison. - used-Hhe-on- e i Kimball Phonograph.Kimball Piano. . 1 two-thlrd- Kimball Player-Pian- , : , , o. rate-makin1 V J .Robinson- Bros - - : Bom With the Century ,'-)- ref J 46 University Ave., Provo: Next Door to Sutton Tea & China Co. j Also 1 34-13- 6 State St Salt Lake -- |