Show PEERY AND SPENCER horace propounds a few questions to the mayor he warns to know why the mayor plays with tones why a change of heart mr mayor george washington touched up jones real estate tax said be only editor TUB STANDARD grover cleveland issued a war message against england and all america was excited cleveland then took advantage of the popular feeling against england and la the excitement he caused government bonds to be assed to the amount of million dollars likewise the mayor of oden city issued a message which was the water company som pany and while attacking the company incidentally in the same message he endeavors to induce the taxpayers to bond themselves mayor spencer knows full well that the water companie com breach of contract and the question of the taxpayers bond lag themselves for a quarter of a million dollars are entirely separate and dir questions an attempt to con appealing to prejudice should never succeed attack the company all you will mayor spencer and it in the courts with all the vigor you command but do not while increasing the public prejudice against the company use the high office you hold by endeavoring to bond ogden for a quarter of A million dollar when yon know well the heavy bonded indebtedness that now exists here Is the main cause of boes woes why now the change of heart mr mayor why do you now play hand in band with a pro motine spirit and a worker for the bond issue george W jones the man who baa been such a thorn in your elde hitherto Is george washington jones now ruling you also it a fact that most of the men who speak loudest for banda are the persons who pay the least taxes if the bonds will be voted what will be done with the money will a new system be built or the old one bought no one knows can you conscientiously aak the people to vote bonds with each information what would you say mr mayor f a whose property was mortgaged to the utmost should attempt to mortgage it still more in order to make improvements the statement is made that taxpayers are elfish in opposing the enormous bond iesue of it come to una that taxpayers tax must submit quietly to a proposition to bond their property or elee be called selfish it they oppose according to this theory george W jones is not selfish that being so per hapa one reason for his unselfishness is that as I 1 am informed at the county collectors office hia taxes here in 1896 were sate household furniture ard piano beal estate total 1782 personal properly can be moved it ie the owners of real property who must pay the bonds in the end E |