The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-04-18
TAX RATE OF
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$685. 50, of which $185,000 would
be principal and $180,250 interest.
In the twenty-five year period the |
payment of principal would amount
to S125,000 and interest S156,250.
The real reduction would come in the
last period.
If the building was financed by |
a ten-year bond issue the saving to
the taxpayer would be $129,375, or
about six per cent on all the taxable |
property in Lambertville. Any tax
payer with mortgage on his home
IAN easily tell what six per cent.
amounts to.
All of these things should be gone
nto in connection with the school
proposition, and then the high school
edition should be carefully looked
nto. How much of this addition is
tecessary? What is the auditorium
or? Why is it deemed necessary
90 pave Tor do something of UNI
known quantity Grant Avenue and
Coryell Street for the pupils to
reach the school, when they have
good way up Washington street
Is the auditorium for the holding of
high school dances, plays, etc? If
so, wouldn't the city save eight or
ten thousand dollars each year by
paying for the use of one of the
public halls out of the general fund
is the auditorium for the holding
! of so-called "high-class" entertain
ment, the promoters of which hope
10 save present hall rent? If so,
wouldn't it be better to hand these
committees the necessary cash from
he poor fund, and still save this
eight or ten thousand?
Mr.. Editor, do you believe that
hese superintendent citizens con
luct their own businesses (all Of
which are a credit to them individ-
1ally, on the same plan that they
want to conduct the city's affairs
Do you imagine for moment that
f their janitor or cook wanted 20
lap mortgage on their businesses
II homes without their consents
hat they would aequiesce pleasant
y. and say, "Oh, well, they know
Better than we do about such mat
ers?" Not on your tintypel They'd
wear much more violently than |
10 when speaking of the anarchistic
practices of the state educational
authorities, and if they couldn't get
-elief otherwise, they'd use guns or
maybe even appeal to the Ku Klux
Khan. Whether the aforesaid jani-
ors or cooks might not actually pos
ess this aforementioned super-intel-
igence, would be given seant CON
3deration. And | don't blame EN-.
| may not be intelligent enough to
gote, but intend keeping right on
ut the practice until some compe-
tent (this excludes these gentle
menl commission passes upon my
state of idiocy and DEGREES other
wise.
After all these preliminaries are
completed then the issue can be de-
cided for all time by the. voters. If
they say yes, all well and good,
and if they say mo" that's their
privilege, despite the Lambertville
city commissioners, the city board of
education, or the state department of
education, or any other self-consti-
tuted ears who have but little CON
eeption of the government they are
supposed to serve, or the people
they are expected to represent.
would not for moment deprive one
of these gentlemen of the right to
vote, or even to dictate to their
wives how to vote--if they can get
away with it, That's the very privi-
lege | am seeking for myself, and
for those who are too modest to ask
for themselves.
At the public hearing in January
| named the sum of 1901 900 as a
possible total expense connected with