Show WE AGREE in a recent pamphlet issued by the utah educational association we observe the following excerpt from a decision of the united states supreme court it Is a cardinal rule which should never neter bo be forgotten that whatever property is worth for the purpose of income and sale it is also worth for the purpose of taxation we wa agree with the educational lAssa association clation in their proposed stand for equalization ot of tho the tax tar burden but in all our observations of this organizations efforts wo we havo have never quite felt that it was their paramount purpose to lift the tax burden from the shoulders of the people of utah the same pamphlet quotes thus from abraham lincoln you can fool part of the people all of 0 the time and all of the people part of tho the time but you cant fool all of the people all of the time this quotation being intended we presume to reflect discredit upon those who dare oppose the educational association which has become really a strong organization in this state upon reading this wo we are moved to observe that tho the tax paying public of utah in general aro are a pretty easy going group of people and as one of our present state legisla legislators tors stated in the recent camp campaign alga that he had been too busy tho the last 20 years figuring how to pay his taxes to give the tax question any thought thus it is with the average taxpayer had not this educational organization better lend some ot of its apparent excess energy to weeding out tho the drones and incompetents from its own ranks those who cannot find a place in any other field of endeavor where they can earn a like wage waga taxpayers will pay to educate their chil childree drue but it does gall call some times to see good tax dollars paid to teachers who cannot in any way teach the subjects they are receiving money tor for attempting to teach when we make the observation that the taxpayer will pay to see his bis children educated it li in because we know that the average parent has a blind side when he is approached pro Dro ached to vote tor for something additional dit ional for ills his childrens education and the tact fact that ho he has a blind side aide in this respect has been taken advantage ot of many times |