The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
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THE LIBERALS AT WORK.
Resolutions Concerning Schools Adopted
Last Evening.


The Twentieth ward school house was
well filled by the Liberal voters of the
fourth precinct, who assembled pur-
suant to the call of the Liberal county com
mittee for the purpose of selecting can6i-
dates for school trustees ID be voted for on
the 18th of July
Jos. Z. Bache called the convention to
order, and permanent organization was
at once effected by the selection of Farley
l. Williams for chairman and A. Hanauer,
IT., secretary. On motion, the chair APP
pointed committee on resolutions, con-
slsting OF Messrs. Bache, Lippman and
Ho2e, who presented tho following resolu
tlons which were unanimously adopted;
The public school system OF Salt Lake
city has never reached that nigh standard
OF excellence that characterizes all Amcr-
can cities. While the funds for the sup
port OF the common schools have been
ample, the system of instruction in MANY
instances and the inferior quaiitita atoms Of
the majority of instructors have virtually
closed the schoolhouse doors to many Guild
rem.
The F urth precinct of Salt Lake city
compress the Eighteenth, twentieth ana
TTenty-iirst wards. The Twenty first
ward has Il commolious school house; the
A"S"uSbu hdftl, tDUef Jie management
OF two Liberal trustees, has within the
last year improved its accommodations
very materially, while the Eighteenth ward
Is wlthouta school house or foot of land
upon which 10 construct one
We, the Liberals of the Fourth precinct,
IN meeting assembled. hereby declare for q
1ree school in each ward OF the precinct;
demand an Improvement in the system of
teaching and ask for the support of candi-
yates who will give their time and atten-
ton to advancing the cause. and raising
the standard OF education in this precinct.
we believe tnGt general education Jh,ives
better when enancipated from religious
control. and we hereby stigmatize all
efforts that tend in any way TO combine
sectarlan instruction with common school
education.
We hereby endorse every measure that
shall tend to give to every child III his pre-
clnct the bestinstpctions possible common
Surate win the available funds, for we be
heye that Utah can ony be regenerated
ana clsentnralled from prieStly rule by the
education of the masses
The figures obtained from the enum
orators Of the city census recently taken,
show that we have IL this precinct 80
male children over nine years of age, and
$40 female children over nj ne years OF age
making total OF 100 children over nine
years Vi age. IN ADDITION TO these there
are 139 male children under nine years of
age and 500 female children under nine
years of age, making total of 1893. 1t is
therefore safe to assert that the population
OF children Of school age, say, from six TO
fifteen years, will not fall short of 500
souls For the accommodation of these
children there are but two public schools
IN the precinct the capacity of both sch ools
combined being but 400.
The population of this precinct is con-
stantly growing, and the importance of
the subject of education becomes at once
apparent.
Unless something is done to improve our
educational facilities, the percentage of
llllteracy must suffer vast increase, and
three fourths of the children of the pre-
cinct be reared in ignorance
Farley L. Williams was then nominated
for The long term, two years, and Joseph
Lippman, for the short term, one year.
In the Third precinct, the Liberals nomi-
mated 5. f. Fenton for the long term and
l.. G. Cone for the short term.
Meetings were also held in the other pre-
cinctS.