Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-17
APPALLING PAUPERISN AND
AMUSEMENT.

! ~ ~ w ~ OCCASIONALLY @-N"
ever, serves TO throw some import
: ant element Of the local and, to
some extent, national situation into
refreshing Prominence. For this
reason We quote the following from
yesterdays issue Of the sheet re-
2 ferred to:
In its wisdom, the government Of
] The United States believed il owed it 70
its own people to, under the law, take
from the Mormon power property I'M
justly obtained from its people, and
used 70 pervert and defeat the laws Of
the government Of the United States,
and turn il over for the education Of
the children Of the parents who have
been robbed by the Church"
The property in question was not
unjustly obtained, having been
donated 10y members Of the Church
for benevolent purposes, including
the support Of tine poor. For this
reason there has Teen practically no
pauperisln among the Saints in tine
ordinary accepiation Of the term.
There has been no application Of the
means Of the Church 70 pervert or
defeat uIe laws OF the country.
Those who donated the means
have not been robbed OF it 10y tine
Church; but suppose il should be
admitted that such has been thecase,
in what position would it place the
Geutiles OF this community, should
the proposal carry to devote the
escheated property Of the Latter-day
Saints to the use and benefit OF the
common schools?
There is in Utah, especially in
salt Lake City AMI Ogden, = large
and Increasing Gentle proportion Of
population. It's made q matter Of
constant boast that that element is
swelling numerically with more
rapidity than are the ..NIormons'' in /
the particular towns named. These 1
two cities would necessarily receive I
q large share Of the coniiscated F.
property FOR educational purposes. /
Consequently the Gentle children /
in Utah would, according 20 the I
logic Of the anti-.'NIormon'' organ. /
be largely indebted for their educa- /
ton 10 q fund which that paper /
says was obtained from those who I
donated it by a process Of robbery, /
and seized from those who thus pro- /
cured it by n similar method.
We hope there is no person on the ]
earth protesting 10 be Latter-day Z
Saint who would willingly suffer Z
himself or his children TO be placed /
III situation 50 utterly blse and /
humiliatias - would De tile ease
with The Gentiles ami their chill
dren in Utah in the event
Of the hard earnings Of the
Alormous being devoted 10 public
school fund. Yet here Is a public
journal, and probably many OF the I
people whose views it claims 10 rep .
resent, ready and eager for the con-
summation % this fearful sclGic- :
graduation.
PERHAPS j. may hc well, after ali. /
that such a climax o. reimbursement .
should be reached. II it shall be.
and the non-"AIormon1 children Of
Utah he educated by a process Of
thg5t with means which has lcgu
earned 10y the Saints, then whatever
success in life Us attained by
the Gentle beuefciagies through !
the educational facilities thus
furnished can only be truth
fully attributed, 50 lar as the eoufis-
Gated property sinai! 20, 70 the poor, J
peeled and abused '.Mormons''
That viii Ice the situation. There 1
is no evaCiug it. Let every Gentle ]
hug the fact 10 his bosom that wishes /
to, but when the full force Of it I @
comes home to some VI them. We y
imagine they viii recoil from IL. I
Otherwise they are unworthy the I
name Of men. 5
The Edmunis bill in relation 10
the disposal Of the confiscateI prop-
srty Of the Church now pending in
Congress does not provide that it .
snail he used for the educational
5enfit Of the children Of tn. people
vino earned the means anu 10 whom !
il belongs. II proposes To use it for =,
.he etucauiOn q the children Of the :
nom" SlU-m n population as well. :,
and the latter have no proprietary
tights In the premises, but must ac-
,egt, should The scheme carry. q !,
,hari'y at the hands Of the original :
ionors, although Il reaches them
udirectly. The fact that the fund
$ seized under color Ul law against {
BE protest Of It's real proprietors t.
'uly makes the pauperistic position Il
4 a certain class Of the benefciaries r
II the more contemplate. II
People who would descend 60 such e,
depth Of affect dependency ought ii
o continue 20 shout about the spirit "a
{ American Independence and e,
hus assume a virtue" though 4
hey 'shave it not d,