The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-23
Do THEY MEAN MORE BONDS?
HOW REPUBLICANS GAN AG-
coMPAIsA THEIR GREAT FEAT.
Only by mourning Additional Indebt-
edness Can the Present Taxes Be
Reduced 40 Per Cent.

The pill which the Republican can
didates swallowed in the form of
pledge to reduce taxes at least 40 per
cent is making said candidates very
sick That they have stopped to
demagogic trick and promised things
which can not III the nature of things
be performed became more and more
apparent yesterday and tie siSners OF
the absurd statement we're condemned
accordingly.
Yesterday the Standard contained an
editorial to prove that the tax levles OF
previous years were less than during
the last two administrations, and IN
this the Standard succeeded A signed
statement from Recorder e. H Ander-
son gave the figures correctly and they
will be reproduced further along IN the
course of this article
However, the Standard article is mis-
leading in that It in no way indicates
the amount of money received and dis
bursed by the city. For instance, the
years showing the Hghtest tax levy
penditCre5 were made. the money be
ing born owed and bonds issued.
The Standard says: Mayor Eccles
left the taxes at mills and Mayor
Fred J. KieseI reduced the taxes TO 4
{ mills" Very true, but during Mayor
! Eccles' term 500 GOO worth OF bonds
were issued and during Mr. Kiesel's
term $4,000 worth of bonds. A good
share of this money weht to pay cur
rent expenses of running the city and
of course the tax levy could be made
lower. The Herald is not questioning
| the propriety Of issuing these bonds.
That matter is not in issue, but it does
! question the propriety OF returning to
the low tax levy by issuing more bonds
| Again the Standard says:
w IL Turner was able to reduce
! the tax levy to BIZ mills as soon as he
! took hold, but in Turner's second year
| the taxes were again restored to
mills" Very true. but Indebtedness was
| created in the sum of $21S, coo by bonds
! issued during those two years Bob
Lundy's administration raised the
taxes to 61a mills and issued bonds in
! the sum Of $50, 600. OF course perma-
nent improvements are to show for
| large sums of the money expended, but
much of the money went for current
! expenses as the recorders books show,
and at any rate it must be admitted
! that low levy is not q synonym for
| light expenditures. The people today
are paving the interest on the money
/ spent in those years and must BAY ii
! which is one of the reasons why the
taxes of Ogden City can not be re
| yucca 4U per cent WllnOut CiIppLIuS tiIe
! work of the departments
Between the years 1887 and 1894 bonds
to the extent of S50s,0OO We're issued. II
one-twentieth Of that sum is raised By
bonds next year and spent for genera,
! expenses undoubtedly the tax levy car
be reduced to half the present figure
Do the voters of Ogden want any more
of that kind of economy? Is that the
kind of surprise which President
Wardleigh and his fellow Office seek
ers have locked up in the safe of Mr.
Wardleigh?
TAX RATE AND BONDS.
For purposes of comparison the tay
levy of each year is given side by side
with the bonds issued that year;
Years 1887 and 1888, levy
mills for both years. 500, 00t
Years 1889 and 1890, levy for
| 1889. mills; levy for 1890
mills Observation-Disclosures. 5O,O0'
Years 1881 and 1882, levy for
mills ......,............. us, co.
mil io0O' -l 49,. ............ 10000
Years 1894 and 1895, levy for
1894, 10 mills; levy for 1895
10 mills ...... ............. NO Bonds
Years 1896 ard 1897. levy for
1886 10 mills, levy for 1897,
9 mills No Bond!