The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-23
PROVO CITY. JUNE %. 1894
THE SCHOOLS AND THE BOUNTY

The platform severely srraigns the
republican party and legislature for
its cruel cutting down of the appropria .
tions for the support of the Univer-
sity, Agricultural college, ETC., and a
the same time endeavoring to vote a
bounty to the sugar mill. Indeed this
constitutes policy for which even the
republican party will find it difficult to
offer defense, Here is the deliberate
proposition TO deny education to the
poor on the score of poverty while we
tax these same poor people to give
rich corporation bounty Of two cents
pound on sugar. 1t is not enough to
say that the bounty go sought to be
placed would encourage beet culture in
the territory. It has been demon
Etrated that there is but little more, if
any, profit in beet culture than there is
in potatoes, wheat, or any other of the
usual farm productions in Utah. We
mention this matter only to show how
the republican party is balanced. 1t
the university were run by rich cor
poration or syndicate it would have
had no difficulty in securing an en-
larged, rather than cut, appropria
tion. But being practically state
benefice to assist the youth of Utah in
securing university education it had
M ehpvu NTH ip ANNA ~ f Toro-
gress ID while private company with
a half million of dollars invested can
have an unearned bounty to an enorm-
GUS extent simply for the asking. 1t
was well indeed that this territory had
q governor with the requisite nerve to
write veto.
Here we have the Insane Asylum
filed with the unfortunates. The state
beneVolently cares for these people
and makes effort to relieve the terrible
evil which has beta lien them. The in
terests and safety of these unfortunates
are to be hazzarded in order that few
men in the possession Of robust health,
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dition, able to put up a half million
dollars upon a speculation, may have
two cents more per pound for their
sugar than the commercial worth of the
products amounts to.
This is republican idea. This is
republican sense of justice. This is
equal to the spending of many billions
of money to free the Ignorant negroes,
and in making citizens of them without
any preparation to fit them for their
new relations to society, as well as re-
fusing them the necessary schools and
the far more necessary means of living
until they could look about and find
friends elsewhere who would and could
help. At this juncture the people of
Utah need their University and Agri-
cultural college far more than they
will at any other period in their his
tory, and it is this moment that the re.
publican party chooses to cut down
mercilessly the mere pittance she can
afford to contribute. The great edu-
cational enterprises of the territory are
practically in their formative stages
and amid the general business stagna-
tion prevailing need aid more than
they ever will again. Yet this is the
time chosen by this great and consid-
crate party to cripple them and con-
tribute less than in any other season to
the support so necessary to maintain a |
respectable footing. "By theiI deeds
shall We know them" By this wanton
and cruel act the people of Utah may
easily determine that at least the re-
publican party at home is no friend of
the youth of Utah. The national
party never exhibited liberation, much
less friendship, for the people of this
territory, and now it is developed that
home republicans are no more to be re-
lied upon for their kindly offices, than
the national party is, or was eyer.
We commend these matters to the
thoughtful consideration of the voters
Of the territory with the honest admo.
milton: Trust them not for these
among other reasons.
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