The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-10
A SHAMEFUL PROJECT.

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system established in this territory fol
the education of it's people. and there
lis no earthly reason why it should be
destroyed.
The Herald has already shown that
the statements made in depreciation OF
the normal department were ground
less. There is no student who can en-
ter it without being prepared by as
high qualifications as are exacted in
the great normal institutions of the
east. The instructions given in it are
of practical character and an adj
vanced grade, and designed to fit those
who graduate for the position of COM
petent teachers in the district schools.
Students who have hitherto received
their diplomas have proven thoroughly
able to take the positions for which
they studied. and the territory has re-
ceived the benefit of their services.
We again call attention to the ques-
ton of home industries in this connec-
ton. How much consistency is there
in advocating the encoura cement of
home agriculture and manufactures by
using and supporting articles produced
in the territory, and sitting down on
the production of home teachers for
home education? What sort of politi-
cal economy is it that will give money
for the raising of a tanning weed for
private purposes. and deny the needful
money to continue an essential educa-
tional department for public purposes
If the amounts appropriated for
bounties which those who projected
them never expected would be granted,
were devoted to a proper maintenance
| of the University and Agricultural col
Ilege, the scandal that will arise from
this fabulous step might be avoided.
It is not too late now to retrace these
erratic steps and take firm and solid
and sensible ground.
The House bill to unite the University
and the Agricultural. college has been
defeated. Therefore the endeavor to
economic by putting the two institu-
tons under one management has been
suppressed. There should now be a
strong effort made to place in the APP
preparation bill something in support
of the normal department of the Uni
versity, unless it is actually the deter
mination to kill it and destroy that
beneficial branch of home industry.
We put the matter in this light be-
cause there are evidences that this is
really desired by some of our legisla-
tors. They would rather import teach
ers than educate them at home. We
protest against the wrong. We have
just as bright and capable young men
and women in Utah, fit to be trained
for school teachers. as can be found
anywhere. We have just as competent
instructors in pedagogy. We have just
as able teachers, graduates from our
own normal department. as those that
have come from distance The scheme
to encourage foreign talent and to sup
press home talent is disgraceful. and
it will recoiI upon the heads that
planned it.
If the University which has been a
pride to Utah for so many years is
compelled to close its doors, or to shut
out the students in training for dis
tricC school teachers, it will be a shame
that will shadow the legislature about
to be dissolved which will ever remain
to blacken its memory.
Since the foregoing was written a
proposition from Councillor Williams
has prevailed permitting fifty normal
students to receive free education each
year for three years. But an effort to
raise the appropriation from $4,000 to
500, 900 was a failure. The question is
how can the normal department be
kept open without funds for its sup
port? It is easy to say so many nor
NAL students may receive free tuition,
but how is that tuition to be provided
if no public money is appropriated to
meet the expense?
If the bill introduced in the Council
for the union of the University and
the Agricultural College should pass
that body, there is a bare possibility
that it would go through the House,
because the absence of two members
when the House bill for the same pur-
pose was voted Oh. caused its defeat.
BY taking the University temporarily
to Logan the appropriations for the
two institutions, used under one man
agement, may be spread out to cover
the whole ground, and the normal de-
partment may thus be retained.
Without this union. or further appro-
priations if the two establishments are
kept separate, the University of Utah
will be unable TO maintain its educa-
tional status, and will have to relin-
quish its normal department or close
its doors and wait until there is Leg
islative body that will be less eager to
bestow iI1egitimate bounties and more
liberal to legitimate education.
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