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Show BLEEDING THE UTAH TAXPAYER. The Salt Lake Herald-Republican, attempting a reply to the campaign slogan, "Down with the high cost of living," says high taxes contribute to the cost of living and the taxpayers of the state should he thankful that the Republican state administration has reduced re-duced the amount of taxes to be collected from the people of the state. The Federal bunch organ knows that it is misrepresenting the tax question, as the amount of taxes to be collected from the property prop-erty owners of Utah this fall, under the state levy, will exceed the total of taxes wrung from the people at any time since Utah became be-came a state. The taxes for state purposes this fall will total $40,000 to $50.'-000 $50.'-000 more than last year, and last year the amount was, by many thousand dollars, larger than ever before. The organ of the reactionaries knows this but, in the hope of gaining a political advantage, it resorts to false statements. |