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Show TJO TAXPAYER'S MONEY AND GEW GAWS The officers of the State fair had labored with the Weber county commissioners com-missioners in an effort to obtain J150O to $2000 for a county exhibit. W leely, the commissioners refused to expend that sum. We doubt that the local board has the authority to spend the people s money In that manner. The hoard could hav provided a special fund at tax time, but after taxes are collected col-lected for specific purposes, the money mon-ey so raised must not bo diverted Tnxe6 are high and those charged with the duty of handling tax funds should be slow to expend the money on other than necessities. There, are widows and orphans and even men of very limited means who find tax time a period of deepest perplexities. ' K tty nickel they are compelled to turn Into tho county treasury Is big fraction of all they possess and any extravagance in county affairs Inflicts on them greater hardships. The benefits of an exhibit at the state fair will go to the exhibitors and they should meet the cost, not tho taxpayers. The action of our county commissioners commis-sioners does not exclude any Ogden Institution or Weber county farmer from making a display at the State fair, and a number of them will be represented. Were wo to decide whether the $2000 asked for should be placed In a sack and shipped down to Salt Lake or retained at home and turned over to the Fashion Show, our verdict would be in favor of the home exhibition. exhi-bition. One dollar spent In makmc Ogrdan's autumal display attractive and impressive would do the city more good !n a publicity way than $100 at the State fair Spending money like a drunken sailor just to prove to the boys In Salt Lake that you are a fine fellow, may afford the spenders and the boosters for Salt Lake some pleasure, but that is not business, or good . sense or Justifiable from the standpoint stand-point of the taxpayers of this county. no |
