Show THE ot U senator wilkinson call of florida expired last thursday the florida legislature will not be in session until next month in the meantime governor bloxham of that state has named colonel john hendereka Hender eoa a lawyer of prominence as senator to take the it 1 abely occupied by senator call TAX PAVERS it want to be penny wise and pound foolish vote NO or refuse to go to the polls tuesday just so surely as the proposition to authorize the school board to borrow money is voted down just that sure will the tax payer have to pay a pound for every penny they now refuse is now a senator as well as confidential adviser to the president what power be will wield and wield it like giant 1 but bianna has a day of reckoning this fall when he shall ampire to be returned to the senate by the ohio legislature the silver forces are preparing for the contest and will gibb bianna the hardest of bis political career IT is a pleasure to observe the interest that has been taken in the cabool question in the past few days and to know how ardently many of the foremost citizens of our city have joined in the defense of the proposition to raise sufficient funds to prevent the closing of the schools until the end of the school year and this all has been brought about by the mere indication that there vaa a of some sight opposition 0 o the proposed indebtedness if there is one thing more than another in which the citizens of ogden take pride it is public schools A who recently located in this ciar says the ogden schools compare favorably with the best in ba land it tok yeara to rather abne of the finest corps ot teachers in the united states and to close the schools would drive them away because even a teacher cannot live a year on the fresh breezes of our mountains close the schools and it will take years to retain a perfect corps of teachers RECENTLY a bank failed in idaho fa ls idaho and since then alie assets and liabilities bili ties of the have been pub in full and a number of have resulted leading the idaho register to remark A circumstance often brings to light thin that ibe public and often the ag are entirely ignorant of the as bessor makes bis to the county alter having called upon every peron posed to be a taxpayer and has bad bim a statement made by himself to what property real or personal he has upon which be should pay taxes after abe assessor has made in returns add a bank baa been placed in the hands or a receiver be Is surprised to find that sir A or bad four or fiva or eight thousand dolors in cold hard cash 11 ia that bankw ben he made a sworn statement to abe u that he had none the honest rancher who had a ranch and a few head of cattle that might stray off cr tile baa pay the tabea keep the machinery of the counte government to hel rray the of the law who protect abe man the cold cash who pays no taxes what the register saya of those who have their cash under cover in banks will undoubtedly apply to every community SCHOOL BOARn does not aek for money because it has used ap the money to which it was entitled not by any means it acks for because the county tax was illegally assessed and buet be returned to the taxpayer hence abo school board does not set the county school tax at all the people get back and authorize the board to borrow it yon understand der stand the question you will vote YES A BUSINESS MAN remarked yesterday that be was tn lavor of borrowing eu focient money to keep the school from closing and that motive was purely selfish lie eald ho bad no children to educate but a a proposition he good name of ogden ae an educational center meant 10 tn hia pocket for every dollar he contributed in taxes toward the schools and he was right in estimating the advantages ol 01 bavine good schools we must not only take into consideration the number of families drawn here by our educational facilities but of the children of our own citizens who now tied ample opportunity to obtain an excellent education at home how many would go elsewhere it the present hien standard were not sustained I 1 how many thousands of dollars would leave us annually sent to other cities where an education could be obtained if our schoola became uncertain in the number of months of schooling or the merits of our teachers it is a business proposition it you wish to make is ao and the arguments are all iu favor of the affirmative side BUSINESS do you realize that the cosing atour schools means in a measure to depopulate our city if not think a moment one hundred and thirty families make ogden their home because of her superior school system do you want to drive them out of our city one hundred and thirty families mean people if some man were to propose a factory that would increase our population that would be raised in two hours can any business man refuse to vote yes next no there Is not one business man in the city who will no but the point is will they take the trouble to go to the polls and vote YES |