Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-10-14

ramshackle affair, but in 1895 they
built two very large and magnificent
buildings to take it's place. If Judge
Hiles should give reason for that
great change he would say it was an
eclipse of the moon in 1894. In the
year 1890 there was only one tall build
ing in Chicago, and that was a II ne.
story brick building on Monroe street
Since 1890 there has been erected over
one hundred beautiful modern sky
scrapers that are 10 stories or more
in height. Judge Hiles would probably
give as reason for so many high an
beautiful buildings that the people of
Chicago elected Hampstead Washburn
for mayor, and he smoked cigarettes
Judge Hiles' reasoning is below that
of pettifogger in kangaroo court
Judge Hiles knows just as well as any
one that since the year 1890 great
changes have been wrought in schools,
school buildings, libraries and educa-
tional institutions in the western half
of the United States. Judge Hiles
tried to dope" his audience with the
same kind of antiUtah pills that
Brother Wishard, Rev. Wesley Hill, DR..
Paden, Mrs. Schoff and other knock
ers have been giving the people in the
eastern states. The history of Utah
testifies, and by comparing it with the
histories of the other states the testi.
mony is verified, that between the
years 1S47 and 1890, Utah surmounted
greater difficulties and advanced more
in education than any other state
People from every cline and every
tongue flocked to Utah. Many of the
parents and children could neither
read nor write nor speak the English
language. In 1851 the parents school
was started to educate the parents
Every church, meeting house and pub
lie building in Utah was a school
house, and every person who had the
ability was a teacher. And out of the
chaos of so many languages, national
tiles and temperaments in 1890 the ter
ritory of Utah had greater percent |
age of students attending school an l
as few illiterates as any state in the
union. Other states may have had
better school buildings and much |
greater advantages, but when the day
of examination came Utah stood at the |
head of the class Fine school build |
ings, extensive apparatus and an up-to
date curriculum do not make good stu
dents. They are only helps. Many OF
the great men of a nation-statesmel
warriors, educators and the capita ms
of industry obtained their early educ
ton under great difficulties on a slab
bench in a cheap country school house
Sometimes fine school buildings AMI
their appurtenances are hindrances,
for they do not teach students self-reli-
ance and to surmount difficulties in
getting an education. The school of
lizard Knocks" has made more states
men and captains of industry than the
great universities. When Judge Hiles
gets up before an audience and throws
mud at a people who obtained their
education at the school of "hard
knocks" in unpretentious school houses
and stood at the head of the class with
the other states of this nation, he is
like pug-dog barking at a mastiff.
Since the year 1890 the Rev. Wesley
Hill and the Rev. Sam Small started to
build a genuine american Party"
Gentle school in Ogden. (The Rev.
Hill and Small, if they were in Utah,
would hurrah for Kearns, Cannon,
Hiles, Thompson and Lippman and the
whole gang of knockers.) These two
preachers were going to show the Nor
mons of Utah thing or two and they
did. The Rev. Hill got up a fine pros
pectus of a great Methodist university