The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-29

session of the U. C. IT A. was held on
Saturday last at which Dr. James E.
Talmage gave a very interesting,
scientific lecture. Miss Holton, of Salt
Lake, was also a speaker. The great
est question before the teachers on that
day was the scurrilous articles which
have appeared in the Enquirer on sew
eral occasions, about Superintendent
Ohristianson and the schools of Utah
county The articles referred to are
very vindictive and founded on false
hood from their very inception A set
of resolutions were introduced and en-
dorSed by the executive committee and
will be passed by the county teachers
in session next Saturday
The resolutions are as follows:
In view of the recent articles pub
lished in the Utah Enquirer, derogatory
to the character and nature of Utah
county teachers in both their regular
work and their late official institute,
we, the members of the executive COM
mittee of the L. c. t. A. beg leave to
deny most emphatically, all allasa TONS
and insinuations Of ineff1ciency, non
progress ard all similar charges, in
fact, we pronounced them absolutely
false" and he, ewith give our reasons
for SO doing.
| F'irst-Because no new AMI startling
/ scheme has been introduced (Which
scheme the Enquirer would have called
a fad, it boldly states that 10 progress
has been made. Now any intelligent
citizen who will take and compare the
schools of today with those ii two
| years ago, must see the ma -erial pro-
! gress that has been made N all lines
Take the matter of discipline alone,
which has been emphasized somewhat
! during the period mentioned, and no
one who visits our schools today Gln-
less he is a blind Politician, will fail
| to see that there has been marked I'M
! provement.
Second-Compare the pupils i'll any
of the higher grades today with 1rose
average age at least one year less.
/ This conclusively proves that pupils
progress more rapidly than formerly;
I that methods have improved
Third-The Enquirer knew that it
stated falsehood, pure and unadulter-
ated, when it printed that invective
aeainst the late Official institute A
short time before that political TRADE
9rrpe re1 it Dr1lie0ed report from
the gifted pen of Professor Joseph A.
! Rees, replete with eulogisms of the lee
]
Now it must consider Professor Rees'
article imaginative literature, or it
must have lost it's memory or it must
have laid aside its honor and varacity,
with the intention of wilfully misrepre-
sentins for political purposes.
/ Fourth-All charges of inefficiency, or
all praise for success, belong to the
executive committee of which the
county superintendent is ex-officio
president
Fifth-The executive committee and
county superintendent have ever been
a unit in their deliberations, as the
chosen directors of the works of their
association. hence we emphaticaIly deny
any and all statements and fmputations
to the contrary. They have ever
aimed to secure the services of the
ablest instructors Any and all charges
Of discrimination against home talent
are without foundation in fact.
Z Sixth-We are Of the firm opinion
/ that politicalainfuences should be kept
/ out aloof from our educational inter
ests; that political trickery, chicanery
and fraud should not be allowed to ap-
/ preach the sanctuary of education
/ that 81 attempts to plant suspicion and
! disrespect between the teacher and the
pupil should be totally thwarted; that
it is the duty of every citizen to pro
| tect the character and reputa ton Of
educational Institutions: that whenever
any person, paper or politician becomes
a favorite, drawing nourishment from
the life blood Of Our public institutions
the pride of the commonwealth; it
! becomes the duty of one and all to de-
mand retraction and redress.