The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-11
LIBERALS AND THE UNIVERSITY.

cast their votes.
LIBERALS AND THE UNIVERSITY.
The Liberal platform conlpels US to state
few facts concerning the University of
Deseret. THE HERALD has always been
and Is now champion of that institution,
founded and reared to its present import
ance by the efforts of the Peoples party,
always without the support and often meet
ing the bitter opposition of the Liberal
party and Its chief organ.
| The Liberal platform says: "By US the
scope Of the Deseret university has been
enlarged and that institution placed where
| it may become the pride of the territory"
This is correct with the exception that
the Liberal party has introduced no en-
| largement of the scope Of that institution,
and has through the governors in past
years steadily opposed all appropriations
made by the legislature to that institution.
Ninety per cent. of the patronage of the
university has come from the Peoples
party.
This is the first year the Liberals have
had control of that institution and this is
the first time in history the Liberals have
ever said a good word for it.
One thing, and only one thing, has been
accomplished by the Liberal board of re-
gents now in control A political test for
the teachers employed has been introduced.
-Four of the old professors had to go as soon
as the Liberal board assumed control.
-Four entire strangers fill their
places. AS result, out of seven teachers
constantly employed in that institution,
besides the president FIVE are Liberals,
TOUR entire strangers, while two are
members of the Peoples party
1t was not political mill under the PEG
pies party. The board Of regents did not
formerly inquire into the politics Peoples
or Liberal of the professors they en-
ployed. Under the Peoples party four
out OF eight professors constantly employed
were Liberals and four were members of
the Peoples party. This division however,
was purely accidental, as the regents made
no inquiry into the politics of the profess
sors recommended by the president for
employment at the institution The pres
ent board of regents, however, did that
very thing. 1t has leaked out that the
regents did make inquiry on the name Of
at least one professor to ascertain whether
Or not he was a member of the
Peoples party. When they learned
that he was, that professor was
promptly dropped, no charge having been
made against him, and no reason being
h1C
pected and outrageous proceeding Dr.
PARK, who had recommended the professor,
then offered his own resignation, which
was not accepted. The regents will knew
that 1t would not do to turn all the pro
fessors out at once, and told Dr. PARK that
he had practically accepted the position for
the presentyear and should not resign now,
clear intimation that his resignation will
be accepted as soon as the regents feel that
they can safely dispense with him. Chan
cellor HARNESS alone among the Liberal
regents, opposed bringing politics into the
university, but he was outvoted.
For years nearly all the patronage of the
University has come from members of the
Peoples party. AS successive Liberal
governors, clothed with the absolute veto
power through the un-American efforts of
the Liberal party, vetoed the appropria-
tons made by the Legislature for the SUP
port of the institution, the expenses of the
university had to be met through tuition
fees. The fees were paid by members of
the Peoples party in order to pay teachers
some of whom have always been Liberals,
and known to be Liberals fer fifteen wears
past. For the Peoples party regents had
an entirely different conception of the aims
and purposes of university from what the
Liberal regents have. To the Peoples
party, territorial university is place for
the investigation and dissemination of 4
truth, regardless of the consequences to
which such truth may lead For the Lib
eral party, a territorial university is pri-
marily place designed to influence the
politics Of the community.
Think Of regent asking, as one of the
Liberal regents did. what were the QocaD
politics OF one professor and then voting
against him on that ground Think of an
other asking if the professor of political
economy was not free trader, saying that
he would be id before he would vote for
a professor of political economy who is
free trader Think of third inquiring as
to the views of one professor on the silver
question, and casting his vote for or against
him on that ground. These were the in.
quiries made by the Liberal regents into
the qualifications of the professors who had |
been engaged in the University, one for
fifteen years, one for nine years, one for
i've years, and one for two years. And on
the top of this, the Liberals point to what |
they have done for the University
Had it not been that the professors who
were thus turned out, preferred to say moth |
ing, the University would not be in so
fiourishing condition as it is today. They
all at present are proud of the University
and desire its continued success. Thev
know that this petty attempt to turn the
into Liberal mill will fail mis-.
erably. They know that university pro-
lessons imported from any Estate in the I'm
ion are not made of such stuff as to ac-
commodate their teaching to the local NO.
litical views Of Liberal regents; they know
that the professor of mathematics will not
feel bound to accept the Liberal view of
the benefits of high taxation; that the pro- |
fessor of languages need not also be an adj
vocate of disfranchisement for belief onlv.
that the professor of political economy will
not run to the Liberal regent who owns
stocks in silver mine in order to find ont
what he shall teach about bi-metallism: or
that the professor Of history will not Of
necessity become defender of Liberal
election frauds.
The very ground on which the University