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Show TAXES, ROADS, DEFICITS AKD THE FUTURE. SLOW DOWN Park the air planes. Get j feet on solid ground and begin program of adjustment ad-justment now. Rich Gache County is worth fighting forj and the tsx payers, must get in the Jtrenches. - Mi has. been, said recently on. fto" t and roads quwUon, and, w--1 .,. .A" ve no doubt 7 -.-prising to a great many. But dear readers these, are questions on ' which still mora will bo said and written and many more surprises aro ; Hi slorc for ua. Those are questions ' that are too serious to handle In 1 partisan way. or !n a eonsuroUs ' way. The tlmo has arrived to handle tnem with tho facts, to turn on the light so that the people can see, and 1 urge that efforts ho made to ao our bent to save as much an possible pos-sible from tho wtcck. Tho picture before It receives tfic, finishing touches of the tirtlslfl who aro wielding tho brushes looks soiuothlng liko this. For the year 1013 tho Stato Board of Equalization Equaliza-tion raised Caclio county valuations neatly three million dollars and Cache County Merchandise over ono half mllllori dollars. This year the County Commissioners, under pros-suro pros-suro of ttio Stato Board of Equalization Equaliza-tion it 1b said, raised tho farms over three million, and the merchandise mer-chandise more than three quarters of a million over last year, tho total increase this yoar oyer last year being Just $4,8CG,801, making a raise over $8,000,000 In two years. Tho stato road commission has recently re-cently abrogated Its' contract '''with tho founty, and tho Commissioners find it necessary to morn than double dou-ble the' county's sharp In order that - tho stato highway may bo completed. complet-ed. This Increase will net a slfly, little bllt, which of course tho people peo-ple will pay. Tho Stato Board of equalization li scratching Us hoad to mako ends meet nd casting about to sco how Bomo more money can bo raised, and li in not at nil unlikely that a blanket blan-ket ralao will bo placed on various) grades ' nnd brands of proporty. From tho present outook tho Bamberger Bam-berger Admlnstratlon will go beforo tho next legislature with a deficit of from $750,000 to $1,000,000. Not a very beautiful picture to gazze upou, but such Is the produd of tho Bamberger artist. pi It is said that $12,000,000 of tho road bonds havo been sold and tho money spent. It Is evident that It has been spent, otherwise tho Stato Hoad Commission would not bo hero claiming that It is broke nnd throat-enin throat-enin gto atop the road work unless Cacho county raises somo moro money. mon-ey. The next Item of Importance is tho Logan canyon road, nnd beforo many moons havo passed Into history tho sad story will be told of how tho inonoy has been spent and but vory llttlo accomplished. We do not want to bo pessimistic, wo do not want to cry wolf when lhce is no wolf, but In this mntter thero appears to be no system and It Is a fact that right now the people, tho contractors and the stato ofueiala, am all about as fur afar as Uw a Tp co&tisetoxs tflMSl &' !20P7 ha? fJ wrqandors cd on the first mile or road, tbrougT; the tearing up of good road, the material from which .could not be used elsewhere, through the making of cuts where, unnecessary and not In keeping with modern road building, and through other acts that have made for no real accomplishment except ex-cept to spent a large amount of money mon-ey on engineering. In fact It begins to look as though the major part of tho money will be spent on engineering, engineer-ing, and nil that the taxpayers will have to show for It wJJ be tho stakes In tlyj ground. At any'rato tho people peo-ple can begin to see that thoy nre gottlng but very llttlo for the money that haa been spent. With such a plcturo isn't it n shnmo that Taxpayer Otof Crou'q-qlst and h'lR followers got busy an knocked out tho proposed" 1700,000 bond If oiof had' onf- dono this tho bond could havo boon vof"cd and sold by this tlmo and tho con'niy could havo had the money to go to tho roscuo of the State Itoad Commission, Com-mission, and tnko caro of any necessary neces-sary amounts for tho. canyon road. But ncertllolcsH wocannot pass the opportunity to hand It to Olof ,Cron-qulst, ,Cron-qulst, becauso his- lamps vero. certainly, cer-tainly, cast .in the, .right, direction. Had this 111 timed venturp been pjgt through an tho money onco in the hands of "The Spenders.", two or three .airplane, trips,. cho,ractcrIstiq of (h.8. present powers thatbo, couk : have mojored the cash tp parts un.. ' known undcr,.tho flag-of the Leogu ' of Nations n,nd Cache counly would np havo had enough left to oil the sheriff's Jitney. Wo 'are not "prone to going out of our wny 0 throw boqucts in tho wnko of Democratic ex-offlclals, but. wo do like to give everybody their Just dios. therefore wo aro not nvcrso to saying that " Olof Cronquist had been given n tlthlng'of tho money fthd present administration, both statd 'and county, coun-ty, has had to spend on ronds, ho would hao evolved a system, that would havo nlado n better showing thnn tho present regime has mado with all its money throwing, i I,ut now hear yo, taxpayers. Awnko from your slumbers, get out of tho airplanes and sot both feet on solid ground. This W. Q. McAdoo way or paying a debt by Issuing n now bond will not always last. Ab Senator Harding says, "America's present need Is not heroics but healing; heal-ing; not nostrums but normality; not revolution!) but restoration; not agitation but adjustment; not expert mont but equipoise My best Jur'g-moiit Jur'g-moiit of America's needs Is to steady down, to got squarely on our feet, to mako Hiiro of tho right path." Thero Is surely something wrong with tho splno or this counlry. nnd a chiropractor Is sorely needed. The poople. the taxpayers, aro tho chiropractors chiro-practors that must do tho Job. |