The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-24
WEBERC0UNTY CRIES
FOR THE WHOLE PIE
Organs of the Republican
Democratic-Churc Combine
Howl Without Cause.
WOULD KILL GOOSE THAT
LAYS THEIR GOLDEN EGG
Would Tax All Corporations
Until They We're Driven Out
of Business.

"Webe1 county is never content. -
said a prominent Utahn 10 The
Stroller on "Wednesday 1T is
possible he continued, "thst this
discontept is due 10 agitators
like Bill Glasmann, who are never
up q Iov. Glasmann, by the way, has
control of two ncwspa pers of opposite
politics. so That he is like the nigger's
coon trap. which was so arranged that
it would catch them 'agoin or a.com-
in His afternoon organ. the Stan
dard, expounds alleged Republican
gospel; his morning organ, alleged
Democratic gospel; both, however, are
ruled by the ecclesiastical power in
Salt Lake. When that power pulls the
string, your Uncle William dances.
"The morning organ. the Demo
attic end OF the Weber political com.
hinstion, on Tuesday morning con
tanned the following:
The Central Pacific railroad is charging
freight and passenger rates based on a
The Central Pacific has 200 miles Of rail-
road in Utah. on which the assessed valu-
alton per mile Is but the smallest part
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific also
have a high rate Of charges for services
rendered 10 the public. but the assessed
value OF the property they own within
same degree as is the Central Pacific.
With these roads earning big revenues
end declaring large dividends, and with
nine -tenths of the property owners OF
Utah trying 20 content themselves by
ekins out a. bare existence. while pay
ing taxes on valuations on their hold
ings 20 within, in some cases. 4 small
per cent Of the cash values, the ques-
tion Is:
When can more equal distribution Of
the burdens of state county and city
~ hnne6
All property in Utah should be valued
al its cash equivalent or on a revenue
ouch value, but this method OF allowing
the vary rich 10 escape their due pro
portion of taxation no longer should be
tolerated.
Weber Wants the Earth.
= "Now if there are any counties in
Utah that have no reason to kick
against railroad assessments, those
counties are Weber and Box Elder. In
Weber county tho assessed valuation of
the railroads for the year 1908 was
S2,112.34S. and in Box Elder S4,l93, ,S49.
The total assessed valuation nf the rail
roads In the state for 1905 was, in round
numbers. S26. 600 600. The two counties.
therefore, had 25 per cent of the total
valuation of all the railroads in Utah.
Therefore, these two counties are the
greatest beneficiaTies of the taxes from
railroads in the state AT the same
time. no counties in the state are as
sessed so low individually as these.
Understand, I am not apologizlng
for the Central Pacific railroad. neither
am I defending il, but the main line
of the Central Pacific railroad in Weber
and Box Elder counties is taxed at S22--
600 per mile This, mark you. IS IN
addition to engines. cars, terminal IA
cilities, etc, all of which are taxed
separately.
E'This morning organ of the Rspubll-
eau.Democratic combine takes a false
position IN that it bases its railroad
valuation at the extreme amount for
which railroads are bonded. This Og
den newspaper makes the bond value
the value upon which they should he
assessed, while the bonded value com
prebends everything a railroad owns
from spike to a locomotive, including
as we'll, all sidetracks, switches. depots
grounds. terminal facilities, with then
immense values. and in fact, everything
which belongs 10 the company, which
in MANY instances. are bonded for more
than they are worth.
Would Quit Business.
ffIf this was taken as basis fol
assessment, railroads would not last but
year or two, and then 20 out of husi
ness Compare the railroad and pubic
utilities assessment with business auc
private property aud you viii see tina
the first named are assessed higher thar
all other property.
stTake the Denver & Rio GraDde sys
tenn in Utah. That company pays one