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Show IS.THE TAX A GREAT BURDEN Just Stop and Figure, It out Mr. Voter, And see if the "Average "Aver-age Man Loses. .lust remember Democrats and He-1 publican volets that three mills of the evtiti ti mills tax about which "the only" K making such a row is to bo used for the ptuchuse of new machinery. machin-ery. That new inachlnary has been bought ind Is such us will practically double tho capacity of the plant. Tho other .1 mills ta was added that competition com-petition with tho other company could be met by a reduction In the price of lights. The Democrats tiro trying to make capital out of this slight raise hi tho taxes, but refuse to state what cheap lights mean. Let us tako a case. If a man ha;, a home assessed at 11,000, the extra tax put upon him of three mills would amount to i.'J for the year. Or take tho whole electric light tax of six mills for all purposes. In fact It Is only .V" mills but for convenience say It Is 0 mills. This man with a thous-and thous-and dollar home will be taxed M a year. A thousand dollar home would not use fewer than live lights. If lie paid for lite lights at the rate ofWcentsj each It would amount to il.7" per month or $21 per tear. Since he pays only -'0 cents each per light these live lights cost him only one dollar per month or 812 per year. Now add to this 'l the amount of his tax, which Is il and It amounts to $18 a year for both lights and taxes. Willi thc.'tj cent lLjht he paid $121 for lights alone, and must pay for Interest on bonds from his other general tax: Tue difference dif-ference then Is between S2I tho Democratic Demo-cratic price, andilShe present price, which amounts to i3 in his favor. He-sides He-sides this, half of his tax Is to be used to enlarge his plant while the whole of the 821 would go to a rival corpora-lion. corpora-lion. This tax Is not the burden "the only" says it Is, and those who cry loudest about It arc those who by their failure to patronize the city plant made that tax necessary. Heads that can llgurcout a wonderful solution solu-tion of the dltllcultv which they have made, were not shrewd enough to fore seethe dltllculty In which they are now placed. Had they been shrewd they certainly would have supported the city plant and made that tax unnecessary. un-necessary. Any time those people want to end the light and cease paying pay-ing the tax they can do so by giving their pattonagc to the city plant. Why should not these few do this lather than that the whole city should come to them. As a straight business pioposltlon why do they not hasten to get rid of that tax in the legitimate way? Republican administration Is not a failure; the tax is not a burden on any but those whoso will it. |