Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-10

, as Aforesaid, been residents in saiI
district or upon any territory belong
ing thereto AZ the time of holding any
} school meeting, shall be entitled Il
vote on all questions arising in said
district which do not directly involve
the raising OF money by tax"
AS viii be seen at a glance, the
provision which Mr.. Ferry 60 We
hemently opposed is practically
identical with one contained in the
school law Of his own State, n law
to which he had so frequently made
illusions Of praise. Under the Michi-
gan law, females vote at school
meetings; so they DO in Kansas,
Vermont New Hampshire, and, We
believe, in a number of other States.
In Massachusetts,, women hold
offices that pertain TO the schools.
All this proves the position for
merly taken by the NEWS, and
recognized by the school till, name
ly, that school elections are not cleo
tiOns Of the kind included in the
meaning Of the term as used in the
constitutions and laws OF the States
named, and Of the States Of the
Union and of Congress generally.
1t did notappear from the debate
that the "Liberals'' would vote
against the bill ON any other grounds
than their opposition to the sections
relating TO revenue and electors,
above reproduced. We are not con-
scious Of misrepresenting their posi-
ton, therefore, In stating that they
voted against the bill because Of
those sections. Such is the conclu-
sion produced by their remarks on
the passage Of the bill. We are
thus specific because We deem it
proper to place on record the only
apparent reasons why the Liberal"
members Of the Assembly have
voted against a free school bill, after
the long years of clamoring by
their party for such law.
In Il speech in opposition to the
section relative TO electors, Mr.. Ferry |
injected an element which APP
preached the pathetic. lie pictured
himself as q native-born American |
citizen, the father of children at
tending school, but not in this Terri |
tory, the manager Of n number Of |
heavy financial concerns, and the |
present occupant of the office Of |
school trustee, stripped, by that
provision, Of the right TO 1
vote at a school meeting. for |
no other reason than that he
|as lot a taxpayer, while his
Chinese cook, who might happen
to have a little Chinaman, or a
moiety Of taxable property, could 50
vote, and was thus placed upon n
level SO much higher than that TO
which the obnoxious section re
iucsd him. The case of the able,
afable and eloquent gentleman from
Park City, as portrayed by himself,
threw a shade Of disfavor upon the
section he WIS attacking. To real
he section made il seem all but i'm
sossible that such case could arise
lnder il, yet there Stood the mem
Der from Summit, now a school
rustee and law-maker, whose doom
eemed sealed, so far as school
'odDg was concerned, if the bill be-
anne law without amendment.
But in further examination o.
dr. Ferry's case, it became appar-
mt that he was mistaken. True he
vas not building up the Territory
n financial way by paying taxes,
ut he was strengthening its re-
ources by a methcd equally as COM
lendable in its ultimate results I
e was raising a family. He had
at school. The school I
ley Were attending was not in :
jtah, but he was the father of a :
'hOOl child, and that gave him the !
ght to vote in his school district,
neither the chill was found there :
: not, =
1t is assumed that at least one OF j.
is children is of school age, and re-
DIES, when at home, with the pa n
,nts in Park city. Thus fades into r
othingness the reason why Mr.. a
erry voted against the free school =
IL.