The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-11-26

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81 their own homes. Have We not ma
teri.ls in the unpaged history Of Utah
70 interest the most critical taste2 And
81 her geology and mineral resources,
how few Of her sons and daughters
know muchl
There do not live IN the wide world
men who have the advantages that the
citizens Of Utah have to acquire and
store up knowledge. Sailors over every
sea, travellers over every continent
explorers Of every island, the world
contains nothing to which they have
not access. And Why should they re-
main idle athome. 4.
We suggest that the evenings Of our
winter DO occupied BY interesting and
instructive lecturing history on Mon
day, geography On Tuesday, anatomy
on Wednesday, chemistry on Thurs
day, astronomy on Friday, agricultsye
on Saturday, and 50 On, till the bess
information that can be collected il
distributed abroad.
0urpublic schools. What shall we,
what can we say about them? In our
own ward We have, we're we to talk
plainly, been fairly Disguised. Tax
after tax has been levied, and al We
can see as the results are two con-
Itcmptible sheds that might be trans
formed into halfway decent cow
houses. Enough has been assessed
and paid to build . good academy; but
adobes were permitted 10 moulder and
melt down BY the thousand, and the
old sheds still stand monument Of
the inbecility Of school-committees.
Yet there may be m apology to be Of
fered. In the thickly settled localities
Of our city one ward school-house is
not sufficient. Let each tier Of three
blocks provide and furnish a room, and
employ teacher. Lot each one who
furnishes q scholar not be compelled
to, but generously, pay the tutor. IN
fact let everybody encourage education
at home. Make our winter evenings
interesting. Encourage our young men
to read, 70 study, and deyelope their
talents. Il is already q public wonder,
the efforts that are made BY some Of
our friends, the most obscure, perhaps,
that live in the Territory. We wish to
give encouragement " their talents, 10
devolope the genius Of the mountains,
and show to the world, by and bye,
that Utah can compete with tho best
Of them in science.
Public schools may be very good.
But we have heard SO much talk about
public universities, and large tracts Of
land appropriated for their benefit,
that We are slightly scrupulous about
paying any attention to them. We
would prefer, infinitely prefer, to soc
some private enterprises for the culture
Iof the growing minds Of our young
citizens. We have yet TO see the FIRST
good result from public schools in Utah,
Our own children have learned their
alphabet and spelling in private semi
naries. Hence We shall encourage what
to rs and our little ones have been pro-
ductiye of the most good. ... h.
REPRRHENsUs. Often-times are the
lchildren Of the desert seen with agri-
cultural and mechanical implements,
concealed under their blanket, Of
Irobe, in our midst, which they offer fol
sale. How came they by those nipple
lmentsP Ask any one acquainted with
their character, and their answer would
invariably be, that they stole them,
is not this knoWnto all who have dwell
lin these mountains, for even one year?
The traditions Of their fathers they
have not transcended. These teach
them to steal; theft with them is no
wrong. They acknowledge no other
or higher law. They recognize neither
precept nor example taught or offered
them by the "pale-face." Neither of
which to them can appear consistent,
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