| Show THE TAXATION A. A BUGABOO After all that thab has been bean said in ia regard re ro- rord regard gard rd t to a municipal waterworks eye tm t-m t m during the tho past two t years It ib is difficult to see how v there can bo bf one person in il town who can now raise the tho huo hue and cry of in increased taxes to defray defray defray de de- fray the tho cost of installing the tho system The people would not nob consider increased mcrea in- in crea creased taxation for lor waterworks for forone forone one minute and the men who are urging ing lug the installation of waterworks aro so headed thick headed a as to think of increasing ing the city's taxes taus on that thab account even oven if that were with within u their power The Tle p present plan for fol ins llin the improvement is a business propos i- i ti tiju lu and if the tho city cannot afford it ib now flow it will proba probably ly never be in Onan- Onan cial reial condition to install waterworks T t W When en any any new mercantile enterprise comes cornea to town the tho city council does not nob try to tax the tho p in ia order to the bhe enterprise Tho The manager asks tho the people to patronize his c con con- con con- n- n corn because e they nee need l th the goods handled b by the store The waterworks company n will ask for the tho peoples people's patronage patronato because the they need tho the water handled by th the company company and and It ib may mar bo be taken fo for granted that thab nearly all the citizens citizen will wUl want the goods handled b bj by th the waterworks company It Ib is true that tha the cit city may mar decide to pay the tho company company com com- pany for the use of Ore Ire hydrants bu buthis but this will not nob materially affect th the pocketbooks of the taxpayers The Th decrease in tho insurance rates am and the Increase in property valuation will wUl moro more than compensate for tho the increased taxation At an any rate the tho bugaboo of hi higher taxation ought to bo be tabooed at abonce once |
