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Show COALVILLE MAN JOINS THE TAX PAYERUEACUE Tho following Interesting letter from n Coalvlllo citizen to tho chairman chair-man or tho Cacho County Taxpayers League, Is solf-oxplanatory and Is a most Interesting lottor: Tho Chairman Taxpayers League, Logan. Doar sir: Enclosed ploaso find check for $1.00, kindly enroll mo n member of your leaguo and If a dollar dol-lar Is not enough, Bend mo your bill for any dlfforonco which I am owing ow-ing you and I will promptly mail you check. Mall mo a copy of your constitution constitu-tion nnd by-laws and any othor Information In-formation which you havo that would keep mo posted in regard to your work. If I can assist on nny bill In tho present legislature, or do anything which is right to help reduco our outrageous taxes, either by writing to our mombcrs In tho legislature or by making a personal visit to Salt Lako City, I am perfectly willing to do so nnd will gladly pay my own exponsos. Wo havo a capital stock of $-12,-000.00 and last year wo had to pay over fifteen hundred dollars taxes. In tho year 1915 our profit was 11 per cent nnd wo paid 5 per cent of that for our taxes and C por cont to our stockholders. In my opinion It Is tho duty of every good citizen to opposo all thoso now commissions and thoso now expenditures ex-penditures and wherever It Is pos-slblo pos-slblo for officers to do their own work, to cut out tho doputy. I was a mombcr of tho first stato legislature legisla-ture of Utah and was ono of tho throo men who Introduced our coal mlno bill. As I remember It now tho wages of tho coal mlno Inspect or was put at ($125. 00) ono hundred hund-red and twenty-flvo dollars por month and at that tlmo there woro a good applicants for tho position at thoso wages and I am qulto satisfied satis-fied that you can find from twonty-flvo twonty-flvo to fifty men In tho stato of Utah who aro Just as competent as any of tho mon who havo slnco filled that position woro nt tho tlmo thoy woro i appointed, who would lie willing to work for the samo wages, ($125.00 nnd logltimato exponsos.) I mention tho ofllco of coal mine Inspector as a snmplo of how tilings in tho stato of Utah havo changod in tho last twenty years, and I am sure- If It goes on in the snmo way ns It has boon going that thoro will 1 havo to bo a revolution of somo kind I ns tho pooplo certainly cannot pay tho increased enormous taxes ovon In tlmoB of poaco and I do not know what wo would do If In addition to our peaco taxes wo woro called upon up-on to add to that burden of war taxes If war should be declared by or ogalnst tho United States. I am very earnest In this matter and wish to assist all I can In a good clean fight ngalnst any rings, bunches bunch-es or anything that has brought this condition on tho honest hard-working non-offico sookors of tho stato of Utah. i Pleaso bo prompt in answering this loiter. Yours respectfully, GEORGE BEARD. |