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Show Respectfully Submitted GENTLEMEN of the Legislature: In considering consid-ering legislation intended to cripplo and handicap Salt Lake City, please do not forget for-get that whatever hurts Salt Lake will hurt all Utah. We speak of this because certain measures meas-ures will be introduced for your consideration, the real f object of which, no matter what the pretense pre-tense may be, will bo principally Intended to cripple crip-ple the onward progress of this city. When they come up you will not forget that some of the outside out-side counties draw back from the state treasury more money on account of their school fund than they pay in altogether. When they cripple Salt Lake they merely reduce the amount which they can draw back from taxes paid by this city. Again, Salt Lake is the market for the beef, turkeys, chickens, pigs, eggs, vegetables, fruit and grain of the county. Just now the producers In the county are receiving better pay for their products than any other farmers in the world are receiving for like products. If Salt Lake Is crippled the rebound of the blow will be upon the producers of the state. You can all estimate, at least approximately, what difference It will be to the men in the country coun-try in Utah, whether Salt Lake has 200,000 people next year, or whether there Is a shrinkage In the present population, and Instead of an increase of $5,000,000 in the taxable property of the city, or a shrinkage of $3,000,000. In his inaugural address, Governor Spry asked for a closer walk among the people of this state. Will a body blow at the chief city of the state tend to create good feeling? |