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Show " COMMISSIONERS ANSWER THE LETTER APPEARING IN THIS ( PAPER ON LAST SATURDAY Editor Ogden Standard: Permit us, I through your valuable paper, to an-I an-I swer some of the objections of Slater- f ille men in regard to the voting of I bonds. April 16. y First: They feel, because the peo ple of our community have been called upon to buy Liberty bonds and WAT savings stamps, tha,t they have made a great sacrifice so much o that they do not favor the idea of building a new county court house and jail at the present time. In my estimation, esti-mation, this is no sacrifice. If we teach our children to save their pennies pen-nies and deposit them in a savings bank, to draw interest at i per cent, t his is no sacrifice. It is saving money; and if a man and his family saves from their earnings and buys I government Liberty bonds or war s;- iug stamps at 4 1-4 per cent interest. B i it Is no sacrifice, but a good invest-tnent invest-tnent the safest in the world. And j thousands of people in the United States have been taught the lesson of j saving, and many have saved one hun j dred, two hundred, and sometimes as j high as a thousand dollars in bonds and stamps. This is no sacrifice, but a blessing and a privilege the govern- j ment has given its citizens personally. ( We prize our Liberty bonds and stamps very highly, and among our best Investments, and we take this liberty of advising all that can save aj few dollars to put it into Liberty , bonds of the fifth issue. V" v But, we will loll you the ones who' ( have made the sacrifice in this greal world war are the boys who have, t laced the powder and nhell. and the L fathers and mothers who loved their I W) sons more than their life and conse- crated them to the cause of liberty F and freedom, ot the world. We saw one I I I' of these boys, a splendid looking young man, and some mother's boy,; wearing ihe uniform, lying on a cot In the dark padded cell of the Weber county jail, who had been deprived 1)1 his reason from shell shock received at the battle front. This is one who has made a sacrifice. And we won dered how hi lather or mother would l 1 feel if they knew their boy was in that f condition. We supplied him with a now mat tress and made him as com-i com-i fortable as possible and we resolved I Horn thai moment that we would do L all in our power to convince the I ax-payers ax-payers of Weber county ot the neces- (Blty of voting Ihe bonds next Wedne-i day, April 16, for a new court houco I and jail. j Second: They advise the people to j wait. Why wait? Why not erect this building while we live and before we pass to the Great Beyond? Many a a man has died waiting and never ac- I oompllshed v. hat Jod intended him to i accomplish. The slogan should be, r "Never pui off for tomorrow what we r can do today." Why wait? Will you be any more Willing to vote bonds io build in five I years than now? No. The same argu- i ments could be used as now. So. why Kl j wait? Now is the time' It is a no-i no-i ceaalty. No one can deny it. And It will stimulate business and furnish employment, directly p'" Indirectly, to many of our returning soldiers. And as most of the materials used in the construction ot these buildings will be produced in Weber county, the money will be put in circulation here, and we will never know of any reaction from the effects of the war. , Third. That the taxpayer of Weber county will have to pay $41,000 a year for twenty years, and ihen have to renew re-new the bonds. We do not know from what source these gentlemen got their figures, Dut they are certainly incorrect The fact of the matter is this: If we issu--twenty-year bonds and pay them oft In twenty years, we will have to provide a sinking fund of $25,000 per year. Tho interest the first year on $500,000 bonds, at 5 per cent, would bo $?.',-000, $?.',-000, or a total of 150,000 the llrst year. But every time we paid $25,000 of bonds it would lower th- Interest so I that in ten years we would only b-paying b-paying one-hall the amount we paid ou the start, and an average of $37 -000 a year for twenty years would pay both principle and Interest, What would this mean to the taxpayers? An increase of exactly one dollar on an assessed valuation of $1,000. If you own- a home valued at $1,000, your taxes would be increased one dollar per year to have a modern building, a vault room for our records, and a mod em jail that would be a credit to Ogden Olty and Weber county. :t you possessed $5,'M)i worth of property, I your taxes would increase to the e.-1 tent of $5. So, in voting the bond, no one is going to be hurt ery much, j Who does not spend from $1 to $5 in non-essentials? And now in closing. We invite this committee, and also tho taxpayers of Ogden City and Weber county to visit the court house, go through the jail then go to the north side of ihe bullying, bully-ing, down through the hole in tho wall and view our heatins plant, and then to the vault in the clerk's and recorder's re-corder's offices and see the valuable records slacked on tlie noor, and I hen cast, your vote according to your conviction, con-viction, and we will not worry what the results w ill be. (Signed) MARTIN P BROWN, I). . ENSIGN, joilN M CHILD, County Commissioners. |