Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-15
A WOMAN'S TRADE,

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We have received copy NJ "a speech
delivered before tho National Congrcsa
of Mothers, held nj Portland, Maine,
ny Mr. Frederic Schor, In which that
lady took occasion 10 oNploi her fccl'
inga ~ hostility Ia the majority ~ tho
people ~ Utah, and 10 the senior Sem.
tor from thn state IN the National
Legislature. Her attuck was n fopotl.
tlon Of untrutha repeated by her on
some former occoalona, ana wpa a need.
less Interpolation IN nn address purport.
Ing 10 be- on the subject ~ the proper
training and education " children,
Tho greater part ~ the address,
which IN very lengthy, contains moth.
ing Objectionable but lts rcpolItions, and
nothing that mny be considered now
md original, Much OF II might have
been copied from articles IN Mormon"
publications. particularly instructions
IN mothers M 10 the proper treatment
~ tho different minds aud traits ~
character exhibited In their children,
md M 10 tho moral ana religious In.
nucnces thu, should be cuat around
them; also NJ 10 thr duties Of fathers
M well M mothers ana the necessity
~ homo culture ~ well ~ scholastic
education, There IN not sentiment
impressed In the speech on these points
that IN not only hold but IN q large
degree carried out In practice among
the b,lier-dny saints hut II IN
not on this subject that we wish to
make special comment The lady
speaker went on In tangent from II
for the purpose ~ DISABLING Senator
Nmoot ana urging hla expulsion, and
thus introducing political matter into
u pretended essay ON the duties NJ the
mothers In this country In the course
~ her diversion she snldi
Last winter In Washington the Sun.
trlnlondcnt ~ Inamcllon for Utah
under onih said that the Mormon re-.
lllglon was taught In over three hundred
or me aiS hundred schools In Utah, ana
u Gentle teacher showed hla order
IRON the President Of the hierarchy TO
NlNe such instruction"
n we are not ms,nkcn, tho lady who
uttered the fnlachoods contained IN that
paragraph was present when the super.
inlendent was giving hls testimony, ana
Mhon he stated that he had been np.
ioalod TO by . number N teachers In
the district schools 10 give his opinion
~ TO the legality " certain school.
houses IN Utah being used after the
Fchools were dismissed, for the purpose
I" holding a religion class with those
thlldron who chose to attend ana thIs
WAS usually done but one day In n woo,t
bnd for about u hnlf an hour
lio also showed that his opinion That
WIS was not legal was opposed by that
" the Mtornay.u,ncral Of tho
state who declared II To bc legal
If Mira. Schon does not undor.
stand the difference between tho
use NJ u school house after school
mas been dismissed for given pur,
pose which In not Included In nor con.
hootod Wlth the curriculum of ,be
schools and the teaching N religion I'm
inc schools themselves, her mind must
De very obtuso, ana shc In Incapable NJ
ulHerentiatlng two totally opposlto
ideas ana facts,
II Is not true that religion has bccn
taught In the district schools Of ll,oh.
" sOo states, nor that II so appeared
from the testimony given M Wnshlnp.
'on ON the contrary nothing could
We made rlo0ror IN that evidence than
Nhnl the laws NJ the state forbid my
such teachings IN The public schools.
ana That asa matter NJ fict Il was not
attempted In any instance. Nor IL
There amy such testimony az she saya
WAS introduced, that any teacher.
'dcnillo' or Mormon" had u letter
Yrom the President NJ the Mormon
church lnstructlng him to tonch rolf.
Hlon In a public school llor story IL
hllorly false ana contrary TO the EVIL.
uence submitted before tho committee
'n privileges ana elections Of the Unit.
III states Senate, an of which Ia m
print ana published by o0lcm nuthorl,
w. 80 much for that Mrs. scholf
went ON TO say.
"Ono Of the bravo mon who, thoueh
norm and educated In Mormonism, A.
ways nhholrod Us practices ana Nho
was communicated because he dared
nsk me President NJ the hierarchy why
ne Dloko the covenants mndo with mo
United states, writes.
40 prlHonrlN In hplonguprod civ.
we rejoice NJ the tokens. lntoroat and
holp thnt are coming 10 nv, for we can.
not cope with this terrible situation uus
less YOU holp w.
'llo mas wculCel fortune. politlcnl
profernont relatives ana frionds to
establish ciyil ana religious liberty and
christian standards NJ mrringc I'm
Utah tie knows ua no outsider enn
the dopths NJ wlokodnoas that nrc en-.
bodied In the Mormon hierarchy, and
Is allied with the forcos which gopk ia
Forever. wlpc out this menace IN our
homes
Mrs. Schoff IN Just us far away from
Tho truth ON this point mn aho N with
regard 10 the teaching u religion I'm
tloh schools No person has been OK.
communicated from the Church for any
such cause as that which she INSERTS.
She may have been told story To that