The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-30
NON PARTIsANsHIP AS TO CRIME.

The public schools of this city have
dropped into the church political rut
they are "worked3 by the ecclesiasts
for tithes and as prizes for the Saints
who need \ job, especially in the jan
itor line Their position as n de
pcndency of the church, an auxiliary
in some degree, has become odious ia
the patriotic people of this city,
The Americans propose TO rescue the
public schools from this degrading
position, The friends of the schools
nrc fully aware that the lily dis
guised partisanship which poses as
partisanship is but An agency
whereby the church politicians and
ruling elders hope to continue their
graft upon and misuse of the public
schools. They therefore will repudi
ate the masked political burglary
which the bogus non-partisans have
in view in their present campaign in
the interest of the church
1t is idle, as all know, to plead
that the non .partisans want to keep
politics out of the schools; they, in
fact, want to keep politics in the
schools. They know, and enjoy the
fact, that the church dominates the
schools, and that Elder Hyde, polyg
amist, voiced the real ecclesiastical
sentiment when he bitterly denounced
the "outside' teachers What he and
his church people want is to have
teachers in the public schools who have
no prejudice against polygamy, but
who will look upon that lawdefying
vileness with n tolerant, or better yet
from the Hyde standpoint, with an
approving eye. And that is in fact
the real basis Of the "non partisan y
movement. Its vital spirit was clear
ly set forth by Elder Hyde, polyga-
mist, and as the feeble and negligi
Bile opposition to him in the Third
ward non-partisan convention was
scorned by him when it demanded
the withdrawal of his pithy remarks,
so the sickly and silly reputation of
these remarks by those who arc not
on the inside and have no authority
to repudiate or modify, will also be
treated with contempt by Elder Hyde,
polygamist, who knows what he is talk
ing about and is sure of the backing
of "the authorities that arc real
authorities, and who are as scornful
as he Of enlightened public opinion.
They know what they want, and they
know that Elder Hyde, polygamist,
expressed their desires,
From the abominablc and depraved
programme announced by Elder Hyde,
poIygamist, the American propose 10
save the schools. The decent, patri
osic people Of this city do not de-
mand that polygamy shall be looked
upon with favor or tolerance by the
public school teachers They do not
demand that public school teachers
shall not be preiudiced' against po
lygamy. They think, on the contrary
that public school teacher who is
predisposed toward polygamy, unlawful
or any other crime or
under the ban of the
law, is not a fit person to have charge
of any part of the public school work.
For it is a special work of the public
schools, and ought always to be, TO
train up the children TO be model,
law-abiding citizens. The "preju-
dice against lawlessness. immortality,
and bad citizenship is a prejudice in
to the welI-being of the Re-
public, and we trust that il will take |
root and grow stronger in this com
munity and be less and less objected |
to IN connection with the public
schools. The -partisanship |
which includes tolerance Of crime is |
a stencil in this community and must |
be wholly eradicated before we can
have loyal and responsible citizen
ship.