Show 1 I I AS TO TAX BURDEN I TIE Salt Lake Lako Tribunes Tribune's attack of ol yesterday upon T THE J the county commissioners is b a serious admixture of i ignorance and malice It Its ignorance might have been partially alleviated had its ita opinion a apart apart- ment kept informed as u to the facts fact its news depart depart- department department 1 ment meat was publishing Although the Kearns newspaper was printing inthe in inthe inthe I the same i issue suc on it its local pa page o the announcement that the county commissioners 3 would likely reduce the time levy y this thi year rear on oil its editorial page it was deI denouncing de de- de- de I the county commissioners for a n supposed action in iii retaining retaining- tho the old Kl JJ lc levy levy of of of thirteen mills mille f Inasmuch n as the county county- levy for county counts purposes was Vos I only five and one half mills la ln t year and for county t school foes two o and half half mills milb a n total of r eight it is ob obvious ous the writer of the Tribunes Tribune's editorial edi eJi- found fount himself unable to differentiate between I the thc cit city and lUd count county commissions sion I It was tho time city commis commission ion that maintained tho the mill thirteen lef levy instead of the county counts and the Tribunes Tribune's remarks may therefore be Le properly directed i against the cit city government to which for reasons J often explained the tho Kearns newspaper is extremely deferential The Jc levy by the tho commissioners for count county t I purposes and that for county school purposes are arc palpably pal pal- palpably I paLly separate were fere one one- oneto to consider the tho city tax tn levy le 1 J under the tIle same conditions it would ouM properly he be two twenty and one half mills miJI thirteen for city purposes purposes pur pur- poses and nine and nd one half for school purposes J The f di difference lies in the fact that the tho county commis commis- commissioners I 1 fix fixx the county count school y levy while hile the city city- cit commission camI com cam 1 mission has no authority in connection with the city I school levy dory |