| Show ENSIGN PEAK CHEEK in respect to topography alie most noticeable feature about salt lake is ensign peak and in reaped to the characteristics of the people the most prominent is cheek the latter is monumental and continental one of the most heroic displays in this confidence game ie the demand set up by the tribune and herald that the counties shall give them the capital because the tax in salt lake Is greater iu proportion to population than iu some of the outside counties they are continually reminding the counties that they are dependent in part on salt lake for their educational jundul and that they draw fram the general fund more for schoola thim they pay into it this a sorry argument as ungrateful illogical and presumptuous for school purposes tho territory is but a single school district and the tax is levied on that basis alie children receiving the benefit pro rata wherever they be there is no more logic in discriminating against county eliat draws than it pays than there is in discriminating against a family in salt lake that draws more than it pays there is an entire solidarity throughout and to commence die criminating is like a state seceding from the union because it pays more into the general revenue than an equal population elsewhere new york pays more than any other equal population but when we investigate we find that new york drains the united states and so utah li drained b salt lake the exceed of pro rata to the counties is but a drop in the bucket compared with what she receives from them furthermore it evinces an extreme want of patriotism and progressiveness for salt lake to be continually harping against the means necessary for the support of our system tins is the safeguard and hope of the future and if people are fortunate enough to own property these hard limes they ought to contribute the trifling assessment that is made to promote the highest and noblest agency of our civilization |
