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Show If an American assessor, who will assess property prop-erty at its true value regardless of the religious predilections of its owner, is elected, it will be a sorry day for the hierarchy. That is one reason why the church is unloading a considerable part of its visible assets. It proposes that those assets, as-sets, if taxed at their true value, shall be in the hands of ungodly tithing fund of the church is not subject to taxation, although it is "cash," and as such subject to taxation. It has been exempted on the plea that it was devoted to religious relig-ious purposes, when every child in Utah knows that it is not. The purchase of newspapers, and the investment of enormous sums in commercial enterprises, cannot be denominated "religious purposes." pur-poses." The election of an American assessor next Tuesday means that the property of Mormons will hereafter be assessed at its true value, and that the Gentiles, who have hitherto been compelled to bear the burden of a county government in which they have had no voice, will hereafter bear only their just share, and that they will not be taxed without representation. |