The citizens of this city in which I reside are particularly
steadfast upon the subject of public debt and taxation as we just let it be
known to all....
We have been taxed, and re-taxed and over-taxed. We have been
billed with unlawful taxation and taking year after year....
So new council, I
ask now, that debt contracts, misappropriation of funds, and money-squandering
may forever be put an end to. That the whole system may be dug up by the roots
and no single sprout ever be permitted to be hung up around the necks of the
people of this city again....
Leave no sprout to germinate into plunder laws and unlawful
taxation and corruption again....
Secure our public treasury against all such
drains, burdens, waste, fraud, and plundering systems and put a stop to this
loaning of our credit outside your jurisdictional boundaries....
Then and only
then we can at least rest secure in the present and future of yours and ours,
and as if there was a good time coming, when our taxes would be lessened, our
rates in line with our neighbors we would become a city with a government to be proud and respectful of....
Further make economic growth and development a main priority
for the wellbeing and positive outlook of our future survival. So we can finally
be relieved of the intolerable debt, unlawful rates and taxation and/or threat
of which now hangs upon us all….
Those which just fell learned that a democracy true to its form
cannot be separated from the processes of popular control inherent in
democratic politics within a republic. That the people by our popular vote and initiative
powers held by the people will insure political responsibility against all
forms of corruption….
CODY
