The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1895-08-29
LrnI, Auausr 20, 1896.
Tui ned a Summersault

The Salt Lake Herald is the greatett
paper TO turn itself inside out on the
bounty business of any paper in the
west. In its editorial columns OF Aug.
2lst il completely reversed itself on the
bounty theory it has heretofore adj
vecated. 1t shows, and does 1t well
toe. that Il is the rich cities and counties
that pay the school tax and the bounty
II shows that tho free public sceools are
Maid for in the same manner that the
bounty lie paid out OF the pockets OF the
rich for the benefit of the poor. Isn't
that right that the man Of means should
contribute OF his means for the educ
alton OF the pocr who have not the prop
erty TO be assessed. We have always
said yes. lent it right that the man Of
means should be just as willing TO have
his property taxed for tho purpose OF
fostering and helping start industries to
give employment to the children of Utah
as IL IL to educate them? The indi-
cation Of the policy Of the Herald has
led us to believe ii was an advocate oil
the poor, but 1t is very evident we have
been mistaken for in the article referred
10 IL has turned complete summersault,
and warns the rich cities and counties
to be on the look out or the poor
counties will be robbing and plundering
the treasury. Here is what it Gays;
Any bounties that the legislature Of
Utah may grant will be paid for by the
people OF Utah. and by no one else.
Where will the great bulk OF this
bounty money come fromY 1t will
come from the same source that the
money for the support OF the schools for
the territory comeS from-Salt Lake
City and those places that pay more
school money than they receive II
was pretty difficult matter to get the
late constitutional convention to allow
this city TO conduct its own school
system at Its own expense, although
the members who were so small about
the matter knew all the time that the
city was supplying more money for the
support of the schools in their own
county than their own county was. ii
this was the feeling on the school
question what will ii be when 1t comes
to the bounty question, where there is
chance for individuals to not only save
themselves from taxes but to receive
directly portion OF the taxes7 II the
Republicans shall succeed in controlling
the legislature and inaugurate system
OF bounties, as they certainly will, ii
simply means that Salt Lake City and
those other cities and counties that
have paid more into the general school
fund then they have drawn out, will be
looted in the interest OF the bounty
grabbers and treasury plumbers. 1t is
useless to attempt to Disguise the fact,
no matter how much 1t 10 to be de-
precated, that large part OF the people
in some OF the poorer counties deem the
rich cities OF the terrltorya legitimate
subject tS prey upon. What a golden
opportunity system OF bounties will
give them to indulge this instinct.
Isn't there something in all this to
cause the men Of means in the Republi-
can party whose contributions to the |
general tax fund are large to pause ana |
think? They already feel the injustice
OF the general school tax which makes
them pay for schools in counties OF
which they scarcely know the name and
location, thereby relieving the people Of
those counties OF the necessity OF taxing
themselves for the support of their own
schools Is it desirable to burden
themselves still further for the benefit
of those same csunties2 There is
daLger that such will be the case if
Republican legislature is elected.
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