Show UTAH PAPERS ON TAX DODGERS the following on tax dodging la taken from the thoele tooele transcript speaker Glas manns speech la the utah legislature lat week on tax dodging must have had about the bame effect upon the bankers of utah that a carrie nation cobble stone has upon the crystal garnished saloon keepers of kansas but brother william la right on his tax dodging question and he will and the poor tax payers of utah right at his back until a readjustment of tax electing Is established that will collect an even assessment from the property ot the rich as well as from the chattels of the poor and it speaker glasmann will do that we will vote him the first prize modal as a public benefactor the whole question of taxation needs readjustment in every precinct of athla state and the office of assessor should be lifted out of the rotten channel of political preferment and given to some person who knows something about the value of property supposed to be assessed there has never been a fair assessment in any precinct in utah biome property has been assessed too high and speaker glasmann shows that banking and other stock has certainly been assessed too low or rather not assessed at all think for instance of some of our poor farming land in thoele tooele being assessed at 40 50 and 60 ah acre when none of it will a productive return of 15 an acre and some of the land will not produce halt of that in fact some years the crop doea not pay the taxes with the farmers labor thrown in and still we have to pay that high assessment on such low producing land there is no reason or justice in such high assessment un such poor land but the taxes have to be paid if half of the people has to suffer the torments of la grippe all winter long from the effects of insufficient clothing and poor leaky shoes but the farmers and the poor are not in the tax dodging swim it does not stop at the over assessment of land mt they start again and assess his improvements his personal property which includes every mortal thing that he possesses but wife and his children and how in the name of thunder they have allowed them to escape the assessment list Is a matter ot wonder to us but Is that the way with banks and other stock are they ever assessed or the amount of capital engaged in the business speaker glasmann showed that a salt lake bank with in cashi paid taxes on only and the assessor allowed the bank one third oft on that another bank that boasts that they owned or controlled only paid taxes on with one third off for cash payment oh how grand this tax dodging crime of utah capitalists looks to us overtaxed over taxed farmers the scene certainly looks magnificent to us A total of over untaxed capital has to be made up by the poor men of the state by over taxation to run the expenses of the state yes william glasmann we are at your back and we want you to hang on to the job until you conquer and IT the rich tax dodgers do give you the marble hand come and join cur ranks where you will be welcomed with a warm and loving embrace the iron industry of the country is going forward by leaps and bounds the output of pig iron tour years ago was tons last year it was tons and today the united states is king among nations iff iron and steel |