Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-07

~ report, out OF pIlutluB euCn -
ton Of il as the House might see nj
Mr.. Allen, by way Of a personal ex'
PLANTATION, and for the information
! Of the House, stated that the Com
missioner he'd expressed himself
willing that Objectionable sentences
: should be omitted from his report
for the sake Of having the balance
: of it. and the accompanying statis-
tics, ETC., printed.
Mr.. Williams insisted that the
House ought to print the Commits
sioner's report entire or not at all.
He said that former session Of the
Assembly had refused to publish the
Governors message because the
members did not like its contents,
and that such refusal had been re-
garded ever since as mistake. If
a part Of the Commissioners report
were expunged 1t would, he said, be
similar mistake.
The majority Of the members Of
the House found themselves called
upon to vote on the question whether
or not they would spend the peO-
pies money to pay for the publica-
ton of matter which they believed
was unjust and offensive to the great
majority Of the people Of the Terri
tory. At length the matter was re-
committed to the committee on edu-
cation, whose report will be awaited |
with some interest.
The paragraph proposed to be ex-
plunged from the Commissioners
report is as follows
whilst the non-Mormon religious
denominations are looking forward,
and in many instances with anxiety,
to the Inauguration Of good free public
schools, so that their primary schools
may be given up, the authorities OF the
Mormon church are inaugurating a
system Of church schools which are
calculated to draw the children OF the
members Of that church away from
the district schools. The dislike Of the
district schools seems TO be based to a
large extent upon the fact that sectarian
books are prohibited therein. II this
policy of withdrawal be persisted in,
the district schools will be greatly
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many children Of Mormon parents as
there are Of non-Mormon parents. 1t
is to be hoped that wiser counsels and
better judgment will prevail and that
tie policy will be abandoned, and that
the true American policy OF providing
free public schools for all shall be en-
Outraged and adopted"
The intimation here conveyed
that all religious societies in this
Territory, except the "Aiormons,n
propose 10 discontinue religious
schools, on the establishment Of
public free school system, means
that the various sectarian churches
here propose to cease giving their
children a religious education in
schools adapted to that purpose.
That the various non-' 'NIormon,
religious denominations contemplate
anything Of the kind is totally I'M
true. Even If they intended to
cease sending their children to re-
hgious schools, it would be no rea-
son why the "Mormons" should do
likewise; but they do not. Many Of
them are as anxious to have their
children religiously trained as
Enormous" are.
The object OF the Commissioner,
who is a fanatical Methodist, in
so ridiculous an assertion, !
was TO avoid including non-''Aior- {
mon" sects in his denunciation Of {
religious schools, rs tending to
cripple the public schools, that he :
might confine that censure exclu- :
sively to Latter-day Saint educa-
tiOnal institutions. His complaint /,
against religious schools is a gratui ,
tous departure from his duty, and
the language he employs Is offensive, !
not to say ungentlemanly and in ,
sulting, to the majority of the PEG :
pie of the Territory, To publish it g,
would be to create unjust prejudice !
against them, and the committee I
on education did right to recommend :
the striking out of the Objectionable
feature of a report, ,
which should not seek to make 20 Z
litical capital for any party. An .
1ihcial report should be free !
rom demagoguery. II it is :
not it should either be ignored /
'r the demagogic portions stricken {
'ut. 1t is bad enough for the people ;
o have an Objectionable public off, :
'er thrust upon them without their v
representatives undertaking to aid il
him in his efforts in the role Of a ,
Machine TO discharge insults at those !,
who pay his salary. The effort Of i
mall minority Of the Legislature to =
id this Objectionable and very L
mall-souled official in that capacity
aints them with a similar hua