Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-27
| CITIZENS INDIGNANT.
Aroused Over officials Assessing
Everything 10 Sight,
SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, HOSPITALS,
ar Taxed Tor ths Use Of Water Tor tho
First Time In tho History
Of the tilI

The mAke.lho.watpr.rate. assessment.
a0.hlgh.la.l0 sslblo.polIcy which seems
70 have bcol fashioned regard .o.a OF its
iar.rcachlng consequences threatens
no end Of trouble Dos 10 creators. Al.
ready citizens irrespective OF political
predictions cr business pusui,s
have been worked up 10 high
pitch Of Indignation by receipt
VI notices agpraIng thom them that
they are expected 90 pay from 20 10 100
per cent more i0r The water consumed
by Thorn Than ever before.
In some Instances, perhaps, property
owuyrS, Ia the matter OF paying water
take, have been TOO .uulcnuy dealt
Will. Bu, why ther, should be- uni.
yoUal l.4i upward, " a sky rocket
ORDER affecting all classes IL difficult
% understand. 40 h well known that
the rates this year, relatively speaking,
arc ~ far IN cxeCis OF those OF last Ne
Ensign Peak IL above Capitol Hin.
Property that has hitherto bpsu ex.
ompt from taxation under every pre-
ccding naturalization % the muuiui-
patty has been hunted out and made
a Target Tor high assessment shooting.
Tue fact that the property referred 10
belongs To religious organizations,
the board Of UdlcatIDn, or hos
pital associations, has not de-
TERED officials clad ina little brief Hu.
ih0uty from exercising functions that
are without Justification or precedent
Ia the community. IL has remained
tor these gentlemen b. fret stUp for
ward anu assess every church and
meeting house In the city for the water
used IN them, TO strike tne hrst blow
at the iftH school system by lovying y
tax upon all buildings Of public In
etfuctiun erected under IT, operations,
10 make u more expensive 20 maintain
hOspitals or other similar worthy char
liable Institutions by compelling the
tocietlcs conducting them to lay
water rate. Ana all this In city
where water IL almost aa plentiful Gs
tnu buunilUsbuues Of the ever fresh
aud bracing alt Of these mountain val
.vyr.
Christopher Diohl, who was en-.
plOyol 10 do the assessing, out who l.
IN no way rosponsiolr 70 ,ne Rtss' .-anh
unauthorized schedule. stated 10 two
members OF the board OF education last
evening that the city scho1ia had been
ussessei about 70 900 Tor the uso Of the
water which viii this year be required
by the childreu attending them, or
about 90 cents per head. Mi. Dichi
states that ho recognizes the wrongful
uesa OF this aud that lao plead with tue
city officials In behalf OF thg schools,
churches uud hospitals. He told them,
uu says, that they would bring down
tuo wrath OF the public upon
them. hut his e4p0stulations, rX-
plantations AMI warnings were IN vain
aud lac went ~ work, completed his
luuJts and IL now Out OF the employ OF
the CITY, thankful that ne has nothing
iuTtnur TO do with the matter. rho
Argument made py some OF tho lew
who IavUr this aluludiual assessment
ls mat tile city trUasury-its finances
generally are iu HuCh u condition that
something must 100 d0utn to prevent
nu absolute bankruptcy which more
1hAu one council solJu ipars will come
before another election. The water
works system Is regarded as great
source OF revenue anu DO looked ~ a.
tho only means OF hulp " prevent tho
expected disaster.
While the board OF education has
taken no formal action concerning tho
matter ~ T. ELECTS tue suhJJlu, II u
unutrstl od u Will fgblss collection on
tue ground that all school buildings
are exempt iOm taxation. just what
acNun ~ any, tAu other organizations
herein enumerated propose u do IA tue
prentice, Is not known as yet. Itia
believed however that they Will mako
ttmu movement looking toward relief,