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Show PUBLIC 1RIPROVEMENTS ARE MOST ALWAYS AL-WAYS HARD TO BRING AKOUT. Isn't It n fact that the public is usually against public improvements? Tho nvtragc taxpayer would be for them strong If they cost little or nothing but as they cost much, and "more taxes" and "assessments" look like a pnlr of pickpockets, few nre found falling over themselves them-selves in nn effort to shell out the shekels for the improvements. Such improvements as wc have in Carbon county have usually come nftcr long agitation nnd n species of railroading the jobs through the authorities. Tho quickest way to get improvements improve-ments is to have laws permitting officials to make them without consulting the folks who do the paying. In states where such laws have been passed the towns arc most advanced in the possession pos-session of public Improvements nnd millions of 'dollars are added to the wealth of the people, j their convenience nnd the worth of properly along Improved highways. The public doesn't always act Intelligently else it would be anxious to expend money for improvements im-provements that mean bo much to it Inter. If it could see thu thing completed nnd note the returns re-turns before the Improvements were made, there wouldn't be nn unimproved rond in the nation nor an unpaved street in any of our towns nnd cities. |