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Show MR. LEGISLATOR! Mr. Legislator! You arc presumed to be fairly representation of tho people peo-ple of your county perhaps you area little above the average In Intelligence and In possession of worldly chattels. In truth, now, how mucli of a burden to YOU are theso separated schools, the A. 0. and University? If you should pass the Mullen I'cder-sen I'cder-sen bills providing for a one and one-quarter one-quarter mill tax for the malntcntn:e of these schools separately, how hard would that hit YOU? Is your assessment ,000? Then higher education In Utah would cost you 2.f0 year. Is that too much for you to pay to assist 2,000 students to get an education? educa-tion? You may bo paying i't 00, but the average assessment Is far below $2,000 perhaps less than $l,000-so your constituency, those who elected jou, would pay but 41 2' a year, or less, for the maintenance of the two schools. Do you think lhata burden to them? Considering the risk there Is of destroying de-stroying a gieat Institution of which Utah should bo proud, do you think you can afford to voto for consolidation consolida-tion Just to save your constituents '-'.') or CO cents of tlio amount they pay for higher education? It's up to jou to say, and when you have your say, let It be upon solid, practical reasoning. Mather than go wrong on the proposition propo-sition about which there Is such a great divergence of opinion, don't you think It would be better to see that the great concerns now escaping payment pay-ment of their Just proportion of the taxes pay up better In the future, and then give the separated schools the portion of the state's money now asked for? |