The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-08
Objections Against the Proposed
Special Tax Shown to
Be Absurd.
FIVE COUNTIES WHICH
KICK HAVE NO REASON
Salt Lake County Pays Sixty.
Five Per Cent of All Taxes
in State.

| NHlch lDc lIlpunc uiu tnlS morning ~
said the Prominent Politician to Tbs
Stroller on Monday. "I refer to tba
printing OF the views OF the stats
press he continued, regarding the
capitol proposition.
! II observe that the Richheld Sim
asks what has Salt Lake City ever
done for thc state to enttle her to claim
for tho capitoI'' To begin with, Salt
Lake has paid 65 per cent. does pay 65
per cent of the taxes in Utah It has
sent capital into Sewer county to aid
in the development of the county. II
has helped build the roads and bridges
in Sewer county, has contributed IS
per cent OF the money paid for that
purpose. Through the Commercial club.
| the Real Estate associa ton, the M and
NJ association, the Chamber of Com
mcrce of Salt Lake it has advertised
the resources Of Sewer county. Your
paper in its annual edition Of any one
year has done more to present the ad- K
vantages OF SEWER county TO the world
than have ali the papers Of Sewer
county combined during their entire ex-
lstcnce
''Your paper has fought for said
more and done more TO aid in the erec-
ton of a Sugar factory In the county
Of, and when the good people of Sewer
county were sat upon by the powers
that control Utah sugar plants The Trib-
unc pointed out exactly why it Was
done. The Sun was silent as to the
reason. The Reaper was silent. Whyfk
Both had to be for the reason that both
answer TO the same power.
''It i'll becomes Sewer county to say
that Salt Lake City has done nothing
to entitle it to a capitol building Salt II
Lake City has done more than all else
10 make it SO that immigration wonid 4
seek Sewer county. And what | say
regarding the view Of the Richfeld
Sun applies equally we'll to the Rich6eld
Reaper. Both papers are dominated by
the same power. Both dance when told
10 the same music when the same lash
is applied by the one hand ~
Juab County Kicks.
''The Nephi Record and the Eureka
Reporter. both printed In Juab county,
also oppose voting any tax for state
capitol Similar reasons are alleged as
those in Sewer county. If it had not
been for Salt Lake money there would
have been no development of the TintiE
district Salt Lake capitalists induced
outside capital to come IN and aid IN
the opening of the great properties in
.Juab county. Verify, Salt Lake has
aided. mas developed. has enlightened
Juab county. That region has no rea-
son TO kick against the capital city Of
Utah.
'sNo one is surprised that Ogden,
through Bill Glasmann' morning
Democratic organ and evening Republic
can organ, kicks. There is no oppor-
tunitv for graft in the erection of . 4
capitol building in Salt Lake; no rake
of. The fact. OF course, that Ogden
has two, really three state lnst1tutionS,
is one reason Weber county should vote
against the capitol building PROPOSE
den 10 secure the institution for the
deaf, dumb and the blind. and the State
Industrial school. and then when the
Ogden choir went west the public -splr-
tied people of Salt Lake City confirm. F
uted towards the fund 10 send the choir
abroad. bui all this, of course, initiates
against Salt Lake.
Weber County Has Been Boosted
'.-Then, too, Your paper has done more
for Ogden, for Weber county IN week
than the press OF that county has done
pages TO the exploitation of Weber q
county and Of Ogden 10 where those OF
Weber county have devoted lines. Ihs
should be another reason why WEBER ,
county should be against the proposed
proposition TO add tax for caPIto1
building purposes. IL may be tuat
Weber county has a grievance against
Salt Lake CITY because Attorney Gen
cral Brecden came here to live, but thar
is a thing that could not be beipeas
But ] don t believe that Weber county
will vote against inc capitol buidlpE
fax fund.
LAS TO Cache county. the city OF 70
gan has the Agricultural college Salb
Lake CITY aided in its location tnefes
al ok ('ifl aGyor9fPu a cQu-|Z
solidation of the Agricultural coils
with the State university because tn7
former usurpcd the function of the uni
vcrsity. but when assured that these gu
croachmcnts would cease, did the ii9ns
thing by standing by the Agrlcultufai
college Cache county certainty has ~
kick against Salt Lake City.
BOX Elder county is likely TO eoo
most ANYTHING, So much general eus. eI
seiness has prevailed III Its conntt
town. Brigham City, that one Is no.
astonishcd at anything that county Ms5 5
do But | am inclined 70 believe tne'
Box Elder will not turn down the pFoPu-
sltlon,
Salt Lake Has Done All.
when these outer counties ask VII
has Salt Lake done to merit capi.y5
building1 ] answer Everything. Anu
it has People of Salt Lake are mak1nnk
what will soon be the greatest city p9
tween the Missouri river and the cosS..
It's people have made city out ol :
village. Money taken, from tne nrs5 m,ns
throughout the state has been po"tss e.
into Salt Lake City for buildings, lo3
Improvements. for betterments, az snS
builded up a city of which every m
citizen should be proud, Bulldea
community wherein the asSesSus =, sSs t;ef-
alton is almost double of all 'he A'e~
ing counties. 80, .ssssse5
7In other words, the total ass assesSS ~
valuation of all property in 1taa rore 1
1905 was $l66,0l9,S55. Of tnis n nkS SEas
gate. Salt Lake county's valuat!op
Sos .2S0.s4o In view Of this, IN r,,"us r,S~
that salt Lake pays such an eno!ImhSss n hss
portion of the taxes in the state ~ and
right to ask for many, thlngs, gs.s Nil
believe that the people of the s'Hso
stand with Salt Lake. 4
Get Away From the Heat
Go to Saltair. Take bath :"