The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Ogden City, Utah, July 2s, 1881.
TdfiOr Herald.

Ogden City, Utah, July 2s, 1881.
Editor Herald:
A few days ago an article appeared
in the Evening Press, OF this city, 10
which my attention has been called.
charging that / had mailed all my tax
notices with Democratic postmaSteTS
throughout the county. 1 applied 10 the
Press for permission to publish an eX-
PLANTATION Of the matter. but that paper
was not just enough to publish both
sides of the case.
A similar article appeared ir the Tri-
bune. of the 25th, and noticed a
guerilla" communication (which the
author has not the courage to sign in
the Trihune's issue of this morning.
which demands an answer from me, as
it contains several untruths; and l ask
you to allow me sufficient space in your
valuable columns in which to reply.
That / have mailed many of the tax
notices in postoffices outside of Ogden
City is true; but that I have mailed
them exclusively with Democratic post
masters is false. There would have been
nothing wrong in it if 1 had q me So
have distributed many OF the tax no
tees throughout the county, having
sent some of them to the DosUmaSt@rS of
Huntsville and Plain City, who, 1 under
stand, are Republicans, and u other Of
fees where l understand Republicans
are pOStmaSterS. | want to add tina 1
there are several widows throughout
the county who are postmistressas. and
who relV upon the small piftance re-
ceived from their little office to pay
their way in this none-too-charitab bic
world 81 ours; and to them l have sent
many Of the tax notices, and / must
confess that my sense Of morality is rot
50 keen as TO cause me any twingeS of
conscience FOR assisting these lonely
7r-
protect them. and who perchance have
a little family to care for) to pay their
taxes and help them little along life's
troubled pathway.
The gentleman 90 whose letter 1 re-
fer TO states an untruth when he SAYS:
Last year the writer of this, in re-
ceiVing notices, first, of valuation as
sessment. next. of date on which 10
appear before the board of equaliza-
ton if / had any complaints, and last
". TO call and pay taxes, received
about fifty letters, each in a two cent
stamped envelope, and yet all these
pertain to about two dozen lots" In
the first place only two notices Gn-
stead of three, as he states it, were
mailed last year, and those were alb.
Solutely Indispensable, under the sta
tue and in the second place any party
who was assessed on more than one
piece of property received notices OF
All his taxes IN one envelope, 1nSIeaC
Of about fifty, as he states. To save
the county postage 1 have each year
compiled at my own expense and labor
an INDEX of the assessment rolls which
enables me to give each taxpayer his
statement in full on one blank espec.
tally prepared for that purpose. This
statement can be verified by anyone
hv calling at my office. The statement
which the party makes as to receiv
ing about fifty letters is false on the
face OF it for the reason that if ons
notice TO each lot had been mailed t
him there would have been only
twenty four notices. His statement is
absolutely and entirely false
Again, he says: There is another
feature about Hamer's notices which
should be mentioned. Thousands OF
these notices went to the general de
livery. and many of them were never
called for"
l want to say that no notices were
mailed unless there was a correspond
ing assessment or the assessment
I roll. and they We're all mailed to tht
address given on the assessment roll
IL the address was to the general de
livery at ogden, where else could they
be sent?
Again, he says: I'm sending letters
to Hooper. Plain City, Eden, Hunts
VILE and other places where there j:
layed 50 that many taxpayers did no
get notices in time to appear befori
the board of equalization, and henct
. are now unable to have errors Of
over taxation corrected"
This is also entirely false. Their.
was no delay whatever in any notices
mailed at any of the Offices for the!
were only mailed where they would
come back the same day, so absolutel!
no delay occurred. This statement il
also false upon the face of it, for al
notices were mailed from my office be
fore the board of equalization com
nenced its sessions, and as the boar,
Of equalization commenced On July is
and will not adjourn until August /
there is even yet time for appearance
before the board and the gentleman {?
is convicted Of another intentiona
falsehood.
am ready at any time to answe
any questions which the postoffice de
partment may desire to ask; and
want to say that any letters which
have mailed outside Of the Ogden post
offissF have been so mailed without an.
ssacitation on the part of the post