Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-13

this particular story. in which child Is
represented as expressing a wish to
contribute to the mission schools in
Utah" through deep sympathy with
poor Mormon women" reads:
Eyes: and that is only small part
Of the wickedness Mormonism Is
responsible for remarked Grandma
Rose. Think Of the tyranny of their
Priesthood. interfering with the libcr-
ty Of the people in every possible way
claiming the right to dictate as to
what, they shall read, where they shall
send their children to school, with
whom they shall trade. where they shall
live. or ordering them to break up
their homes, make "A forced sale OF
their property. and move into another
state or territory at their own cost, or
go ON n mission
..Their wicked doctrine and prac-
tice OF what they call blood atonement
too," sighed Grandma Elsie.
And the bitter hatred they incul-
cate toward the people and government
of the United Stntes,' added Zoe. oh
am sure both love of country and
desire for the advancement Of Christs
kingdom should lead us to do all we
can to rescue Utah from Mormonism.
Do you not think so. mamma?,."
There is not truthful sentiment in
the entire extract; yet such immoral
teaching is communicated TO children
through the vehicle provided by the
public schools. Let it be understood
here with the strongest emphasis. that
such volumes are not text books; they
nre not authorized by the school Off
cials. But by reason of insufficient care,
the school is made unintentionally,t the
means Of placing before pupils this
class Of books, which belong to the
vilest kind OF literature because of
their falsehood and special sec
tartan blgotry. The instance
which we quote and which
is not alone. should be sufficient TO in
dicatc to the board of education the
necessity for special diligence in view
of the situation here 1t is a matter in
which Catholics, Methodisis, Baptists,
Eplscopalians and all other denomina-
lions are Interested as well as the Nor
mons.
As an offset to the extract from the
book we refer to. Christmas with
Grandmother elsie. we append a para
graph from the report of Governor
McCord Of Arizona, as 1t appeared in q
Herald special from Washington, and
which states forclble truths about the
Mormons. After mentioning the arri'
val of early settlers in Arizona in the
later sixties. he says:
"Soon after this the Mormons begar
| to locate in the northeast corner OF tbs
| territory, coming down from Utah. at
| tracted, no doubt, by the rich grains
and mineral lands of that part of thu
| territory They have gradually extend
ed these settlements south along tbs
eastern part of the territory, and nov
| probably constitute a majority of thu
| inhabitants of Apache and Graham
| counties, and quite considerable par
| of Maricopa and Navajo, 1t can b
said truthfully that there is no NOR
thrifty, temperate, industrious. or bet
| ter disposed body Of citizens in tn
| territory. The practice of pOlygam,
among them is now unknown, havinl
long since been abandoned. They hav
done as much to bring about the pros
| porous condition. from an agricultu
raj point of view, by which Arizona
blessed today, as any other part of tn
| community, especially in the reclama
tlon of the soil by irrigation, of whic
they are acknowledged masters as We
as pioneers in the United States
It would he no injury to the publ
school pupils to have provided in thei
libraries some literature of the charac
ter of the later instances given, sayin
good and truthful things of the pee
pie, Mormons and Mormons. Je'
and Gentle, instead OF the class {
books to which objection Is here raiseC