The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-08

Those opposed to the proposition of
bonding the city were very active yes
terday and a large number of names
we're added to the petition published h
Sundays Herald. Horace and Joseph
PeeTy, with r. J. Taylor, were active
in circulating the protest, and the pc
-ition stood last night as signed as fol-
lows: l. w Shrrtliff, ]. II. Spargo.
John a. Boyle, Joseph Parry. James
Singree, D. H Peery, J. c. Armstrong,
Z. j. Taylor, Theodore Schansenbach,
.ieCrge j. Kelly, John S. Lewis, George
David Eccles, James Mack, A. Kuhn &
Bro, Ad Kuhn, Ed Rosenbaum, James
oingree, Lorin Farr, Aaron F. Farr,
EN-, H. c. BigelCW, Samuel Horrocks,
3Ohn d. Carnahan. Barnard White,
Joseph Clark, Grand Opera. House com
pany, G. w. Murphy, j. A. Smith,
Thomas Fitzgerald, James Agler su-
Derintendent Depot company, NJ
HinChcliffe, j. F. Gay. julius c. Kiesel,
san CHAPMAN, Sidney Stevens Imple-
Tent company, Reese Howell, Reese
Howell & Sons, J. L. Williams, T. A.
Whalen, e. s. Rolapp, W. G. Wilson,
]. ". Guthrie. Healey & Patterson.
Joseph A. West, Martha A. Harris, J.
N. Browning.
MR.. PERRY COMMUNICATION.
Horace Peery also prepared a state
me-5t for publication which propounded
; number of questions to the mayor.
Following is the statement
70 the Editor of The Herald:
Grover Cleveland issued war mes
cage against England, and all America
vas excited. Cleveland then took adj
Tantage of the popular feeling against
England and in the excitement he
-a.used government bonds to be issued
to the amount of $780, 600, 900. Likewise,
he mayor of Ogden issued a message,
which was mostly against the water
-ompany, and, while attacking the
sompany, incidentally in the same mes
age he endeavorS to induce the tax
payers to bond themselves.
Mayor Spencer knows full well that
the water company's breach of con-
tract and the question of the taxpayers
oondinS themselves for a quarter of a
million dollars are entirely separate
and distinct questions. An attempt to
convince by appealing to prejudice
should never succeed. Attack the
company all you will, Mayor Spencer.
and fight it in the courts with ali the
yigor you command. but DO not, while
increasing the public prejudice against
the company use the high Office you
I quarter of million dollars. when you
know well that the heavy bonded in
debtednesS that now exists here is the
main cause of Ogden's woes
Why now the change of heart, MIR.
Mayor? Why do you now play hand
in hand with promoting spirit and a
most active worker for the bond issue
George w. Jones, the man who has
been such a thorn in your side hither
10? Is George Washington Jones now
ruling you also?
Isn't it a fact that most of the men
who speak lCndest for bends are the
persons who pay the least taxes?
If the bonds viii be voted what will
be done with the money? Will a new
system be built. or the old one bought?
40 one knows. Can you conscientious
~ ask the people to vote bonds with
such information?
What would you say, Mr.. Mayor, if
9. man whose property was mortgaged
to the utmost Should attempt to mort
gage it still more in order to make i'm
DrOvementS?
The statement is made that taxpayers
are selfish in opposing the enormous
bond issue of S250,000 Has it come to
this that taxpayers must submit quiet
~ to q. proposition to bond their prop
erty or else be called selfish if they OPP
pose? According to this theory, George
w. Jones is not selfish. That being 50.
perhaps one reason for his unselhsn-
ness is that, as 1 am informed at the
county collectors Office. his taxes here
in 1896 We're:
Safe Observation-Disclosures. $50
Household furniture and piano. S.25
Real estate ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LII
Total. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SIT. 80
Personal property can be moved. 1t
is the owners of real property who
must pay the bonds in the end.
HOB AC'E E PERRY