Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-24
Saturday, January 94, 1885.
UNDERMINING moRmoNIsm.

It is drawing upon the minds of many of the inhabitants of this great, glorious and free country that the best way to fight Nor hohisin iH not with the sword, but with edu- cation of the right kind. This idea was adopted by various church organizations some time ago, and much good work in ear ryibg 1t out has been dehe-se much that q brief statement ef some ef the more impef= taht facts will, We imagine, surprise most Of our renders,
 More than fifteen years ago the churches sent their first missionaries to the Territory, h 1897 Bishop Futile of the Episcopal church opened the first non Mormon school in Salt Lake City, In 1870. second was started by him in Ogden, and in 1873 q third in Logan. Since then the number has in creased to five, with twenty-five teachers and eight hundred and fifty scholars. The Methodists were next in the field, planting Salt Lake seminary in 1870, and other schools in Ogden, Beaver, Provo, etc., until now they have eleven, with nineteen teach CTS and about seven hundred pupils. The Presbyterians followed in 1875 by opening two schools, adding five two years later, and have steadily enlarged their work until they now occupy a line of settlements extending from Idaho to Arizona, and sustain not less than thirty three schools, with ffty-four teachers, and an attendance of upwards of two hundred.
 Next, in 1878, the Congregationalists founded Salt Lake academy, which occupies land and buildings costing some thirty thou sand dollars, and has corps of six teachers and upwards of two hundred pupils. The year following, the New West Education Commission was incorporated to carry on the school work, and made haste to open four schools, besides aiding the funds of the academy, while rapid has been the growth of it's operation that already it has on its hands in Utah twenty eight institutions, most ly of primary grade, with forty-fours teachers, and an enrolment of one thousand seven hundred and fifty Then, besides, the Cath olics have three large and fourishing schools, with thirty-fve teachers and about four hun dred and fifty pupils; and, finally, the Bsp- tisss sustain two schools, with three teachers and upwards of one hundred and seventy children. As total we have of schools eighty-three of instructors ono hundred and eighty-fve, aud of scholars not less than six thousand at the present date, or an at tendance for the school year of seven thou sand five hundred or upwards.
 For the maintenance of these non-Mor mon, Christian schools there were expended from benevolent funds last year for salaries not less than $90, ,000, while all the teachers in Utah received but S119,91O The various denominations have purchased property which cost and is worth the gross sum of s297 ,0OO, while the real estate occupied by the public schools after an accumulation of almost 40 years aggregates only S4O8, ,73O, or exceeds the former in value only by 39 per cent But most striking of all is the further fact that not less than one-fourth of all the school attendance of the Territory is found in educational institutions hostile to the Mormon church, and is in the hands of teachers trained in s'the States"
 This is a noble work, and cannot fail to have powerful effect in undermining Nor monism Most of those who are Mormons probably became so from lack of intelligence, and the best way to prevent the children from following blindly in the footsteps of their fathers and mothers is to train them to think properly.