The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24
MATTERS POLITICAL.
The Little Circus in the Tenth
Ward SchOOlhOuse.
SOME ASTOUNDING ASSERTIONS.
"Free Talk the Liberal War Cry-PeOple's
Meetings to be Held-"TO Come
By and By"

! The Liberals held a grand rally at the
Tenth district schoolhouse on Thursday ev-
ening last. Hand bills had been circulated in
the neighborhood and personal invitations
were given, so as, if possible, to have q
fair turnout, but outside of the drum
corps and other visiting friends of their
cause from neighboring wards the atten-
dance there was pretty thin, especially for
the efforts made to have big affair for
once. Professor Allen and Judge Powers
were there, and Mr.. Freeman, who had
personally been invited by Jake Moritz,
was there also.
Professor Allen was labOring to issue his
venom against the legislature and other
officers of the tt rritory and the city, when
he dropped on to the school question, the
question above all on which he likes to
spread his bile, but on this occasion he
spread it in the wrong pew. He amused
some of his hearers by telling them that
the Peoples party trustees never allowed
to use their schoolhouses, forgetting
that the very house in which he
was mounting his abuse was run
by three Peoples party trustees. He also
said that there was not free school any
where in the territory except where the
Liberals had their trustees forgetting for
another time that free school was run in
the district he was then speaking in, and
no Liberal trustee in office, either He
made another daisy aSsertion-for the resi-
dents of the district where he was speak
ing-that there was not a good schoOlhouse
built in the territory except where the
Liberals had a majority. Now this was
piling it on pretty heavy for some of his
hearers, when the aforementioned MIR.
Freeman remarked: THE Liberals tried
to hinder The building of this schoolhouse."
Mr.. H. Laney-iulnping on bench-in
his usual excited and frothy manner
You're liar, sir"
Mr.. Freeman-"You're no gentleman. ~
Then Babel appeared, and liberal shouts
of ''throw him out" put him out" were
heard as freely and as pleasantly as the
gentle buzzing around disturbed hornets
nest
We say Mr.. Allen got in the wrong pen,
because the records are against him. On
April %, 1886, meeting of the residents
of the Tenth school district was held to
take into consideration the building of a
schOolhOuse, when tax was voted for the
purpose, NEARLY ALL of the Liberals present
voting against it. On April 90, 1886,
Messrs. Kirkman, Taylor and Strong, the
trustees, were finally notified that con
certed action was to be made to resist the
payment of the tax, and that 1--WE shall
fight the same to the highest court" This
notification was signed by Z. B. Critch-
Glow and twenty-siX others. The result
was that an expensive lawsuit to the dis
trict was instituted by said protester
against the construction of said building,
though the district very badly needed it.
The suit was tried before Judge Zane,
when the Peoples party aud the friends
of education gained the day and the school
house as against their enemies.
This IS history, professor.
Again on December Il, 1888, meeting Of
the taxpayers of the district was called to
take into consideration the voting a tax to
be levied for maintaining a free school in
the district, and at the meeting NEARLY
ALL the Liberals voted against the levying
OF tax for 4 free school; but the People s
party and few Liberals voted for it, and
The friends of education won again
This is history, professor.
Again, such an intelligent man as him
ought to know that the second district in
this city has had free school for THREE
YEARS and no Liberal trustee there.
Again, the Fifteenth district has been
running a free school for THREE YEARS,
and no Liberal trustee, there.
Again. the school in the Twenty first
ward has been a free school the whole of
the present year, and no Liberal trustee
there.
Professor, you must be wilfully and ma
liciously ignorant, or else willing falsi-
fer. Anyhow, honest people cannot have
much respect for you, unless you turn from
your ways. Don't make such break
again.
And such is the Liberal talk!