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Show BBJ 'Die Democratic organ compares BBJ Logan's present 12J mill tax under BBJ Republican rule with the r under a BBJ Democratic Admlnstratlon and then BBJ enters into an argument calculated to BBJ j place the mule on a pcdcstialand re- BBJ legate the elephant to Innocuous des- BBJ uetudc. In order to accomplish this BBJ our contemporary very carefully re- BBJ trains from Indicating b) sign or word BBJ any legitimate reason for the BBt extra tax. Taxes bring the revenue BBJ to pay the expenses of the clt) , and If BBJ those expenses aro legitimate, then BBJ the tax, though It be high and some- BBj ' what burdensome, can bo borne with BBj considerable equanimity. That there BH lias been an increased tax over that of BBj the Democratic administration Is BH ' merely the result of the aggressive, BH I progressive disposition of Hie Itcpubll- BH i can administration as against the ex- BH tremely conservative, non-progressive BH disposition of our Democratic friends. HH t If we have higher taxes, we also have HH ' improvements, and Increased property H t values, and In figures by the column BBj I' our esteemed contemporary lias prov- H i etl that the electric light plant, which BH I Is directly responsible for tlie greater H part of the Increase in the tax levy, BH j can bo made a revenue producer of HH such extent that it can nut only pay HH for Itself within a given time but furn- HH ish suillceiil additional levenue to pay i HB n practically all the ) early expenses of BH the city. Wo havea larger tax 'tis HH title, but we have cheap lights and a H :' light plant thai must eventually pay HH I back to Die city far more than the In- BH crease of tax at present, improve- HH ments and progress in a city do not B come without taxation, and lias there BB ever been a lime in the hiitory of the HH city of Logan when the people weie HB better prepared to meet a tax? The BH people have more money at the pros- HB sent time than they ever had and a H tax at tills time is certainly less bur- HH densomc. |