Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-06-05
OUR SAN FRANCISCO AGENT
THE SCHWOL LETF.


The, special school tax election
which takes place t. day, is rendered
necessary by the fact that the Coun-
ty Commissioners are restricted 20 u
levy OF fifty cents on one hundred
dollars.A q v III q. Esl ~ %
Special elections have been held in
several districts of the State this
year, which shows that the limit of
the levy is not high enough To meet
all the expenses Of keeping the
schools open. II would be better to
have the Law amended to allow the
County Commissioners to levy an
amount lwhicI, would meet tile re,
Anirements Of the gear; the ex ,,ense
would be. less In The end, and it
would he more satisfactory to tine
taxpayers. ~ Aes
There would be no danger in
granting to the County Commission
ers the power to levy a tax which
in their opinion would be sufficient
1t would have the advantage of Civ,
ing the payers an immediate knowl-
edge of What they had TO pay. At
ter having been informed that the
taxes of the year would be certain
percentage OH their property, it is on
ay to be expected that an additional
levy will meet with dissatisfaction
and opposition from many of the
property owners.
Had the Board been authorized to
make the tax levy in the first place
equal to the amount needed, the PEG
pie who are now fighting it would
have complained little at the
amount, but there would have been
no feeling againstthe schools aroused
as there is low, and the complaints
wovld have been no more loud than
they were without the addition, for it
is natural for most people to COM
plain about the weight of taxes.
-BEN BUTLER seems to have
angered the Salt Lake GeHtiles by
asking them why they stayed in that
country if they did not like it.
The Mormons are, without doubt,
a peculiar people, and some of their
practices are open to serious objec-
tions, but considerable portion Of
the bowling about them is done by
people who never suffered at their
hands in any way. Their frightful
crimes furnish material for highly
seasoned reading matter, and are gen
orally magnified TO suit the taste of
dime novel readers. The Geatiles in
Salt Lake have had Mormon oppres-
sion and persecution as standing
subject for conversation so long that
they would be lost without it. AS
soon as a GENTLE visitor arrives he
begins to hear Of the Endowment
House and of murders innumerable.
A great deal of this is true, but at
present they are behaving as we'll as
any other citizens except as to poly
gamy. At one time the resident
Gentiles had grievances, but now
they are as well protected as the
Mormons. Those who suffered in
the past remember their wrongs, and
there is o show of reason in their
complaints, but it is not so with the
arrivals of late years. A new conner
who must needs be in the fashion,
looks out for grievance and takes
up polygsmy as the most available.
The majority of these GROWERS are
insincere. II they don't speak of
the evils of polygamy they tear their
hair on account Of the cooperative
stores. 1t Is not because the Nor
mon methods of business are wrong,
but because they succeed in monop
Olizing the trade Of their own pso-
pie. The loudcst complaints come
from class of men who would do
Just as the Mormons do ifthey could.
Butler, who is a shrewd man,
doubtless saw through the hypocrisy
of some of these people, and was too
independent to try and gain popular
ity by pretending to sympathize with
them.
-KEARNEy. will continue his
blackguardisn as long as he can
make it pay. His last collection