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Show den who could subscribe tne million dollars; there is one man in this city who carried one company ror one million dollars durlug tne panic, so it is all nonsense to say ogaen is not prepared to contribute tnat sum ot money. ' Every real estate owner In this city would subscribe to a fund to have the capital moved and every owner, of property, with ono or two exceptions, Is ready and willing to susscnoc to such a fund. But this question of Ogden and Salt Lake rivalry over tho capital aside, there is sufficient reason ror opposing this tax on the score of economy. Every county, city and town m Utah hag been bonding to the limit and now the state is seeking to go in debt beyond tho limit fixed by tne constitution. consti-tution. Is it not time to ao something to stop this riot of reckless expenditure expendi-ture and bring the custodians of public pub-lic funds to a sense of economy? The state officers and the legislators should be taught retrenchment. While they can deplete the state treasury with assurance that -If they drain the exchequer of the last dollar the people will vote them more money by special taxation, there will be no attempt at economy. This request that the people change the fundamental law of mo state In order to provide means for the carrying carry-ing out of plans calling for an outlay of a million or more dollars, ?s an appeal ap-peal so out of tho ordinary that tne taxpayers should be absolutely certain that the necessity for such action Is Imperative before they, by their sanction, sanc-tion, set a precedent so dangerous to a sane condition of business management manage-ment of state finances. A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT IN STATE AFFAIRS. (Morning Examiner.) On the basis of dollars and cents. Ogden can afford to contribute $1.-000,000 $1.-000,000 for the capital. The proposed tax of one mill for fifteen years would aggregate close to half a million dollars dol-lars in Weber county, estimating a gradual Increase of taxable property. It is worth half a million dollars to keep at home that amount, and the added benefits ot being a capital would mako up whatever dltrerenco mere might be , i There aro half a dozen men in Og- |