The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-01-04

we can but very briefly refer to the
supreme interest of current history
the history OF our own times. How
pregnant with deepest ignifciance, in
the old world and in the new. The
terrific conflict between capital and
labor-the threatening dangers ofsocial-
ism, nihilism and of ansrchism. All
point to the unquestionable exis-
tence of certain social and national
evils which are virulent enough to
vitiate the life of any community, if not
wisely ersdicated, Thank Heaven
many of these evils are not present in
Utah to any appreciable extent; for
this most happy and thankful reason
our young Utah statesmen have before
them the happier work of constructive
political science, and if they study earn
estly and intelligentlY the great social
problems that in the rest of the world
are pressing for solution, they will all
the better be prepared to be in truth
and in deed, SGUiors, not only in Zion
so called, but on the wider plane of the
world-life.
We are bold to affirm that there
meyer was in past times a more glori-
GUS opportunity for the yoang states
men of any community, than the one
that now lies before the ''boys" of
Utah. Some are already In the field,
giving evidence of senatorial capaci-
ties of highest order-others are being
educated, not few we trust, right
here in Provo. The work to be done
is of such a supreme and urgent char
acter that We most thankfully and
heartily appreciate the work Of higher
culture that is going on in the B. 7.
academy. AS far as we can, at the
present judge, the staff of the profess
ors there are efficient men, thoroughly
in earnest, and are indeed earning all
that is paid them for their work. And
right here we will say once for all,
having been approached on the sub
jeet Of high salaries for teachers and
professors, that we entirely agree with
the plan Of giving the teaching pro-
foeeinr, tho r,nnet lihors,l s,- ao-. M -
are doing the work that is to last the
longest and will exercise the widest in
fuence for the future good of Utah.
Parsimony here is equally childish and
foolish, and betrays the utter want of
public spirit. In fact we are informed
that Notwithstanding the stupidity blat
ant howl and greed of the Enquirer on
this question, the Provo teachers are
not nearly SO well paid Us those in
Ogden and Salt Lake, in fact in all the
county schools the teachers are better
paid than in Provo, and certainly the
few professors we have of university
qualifications and who are really doing
good university work are far below in
their pay to what such men get east
and west and everywhere, where the
nature Uf their work is understood;
let us not therefore hear any more
Of this miserable hsrping and carping
of uarrow-minded, but frightfully
shortsighted, would be public bene-
factors.
Must not Provo furnish her fair per
centage of future statesmen, whether
as natives Of this fair city or as "boys"
educated here2 Certainty she ought
and must and will doubtless do so, but
only in proportion as she it generously
supported in her educational policy.
We want the best in this line of public
work, this being granted, we want our
young men of this city, of this county
and of the whole of Utah to rise up
with dignity and earnestness of pur-
pose and set to work to prepare them
selves for grand future.