Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-17
SCHOOL TEACHERS AND
STRUCToRs INSULTED.

was down east on a begging expedi- |
tion for the Westminster college of |
this city. He wanted 100000 and |
with view of getting it and to cast |
reproach upon Utah and injure her
people, he insulted and lied about all
the teachers and schools of this state
Here is what he said in the Herald
and Presbyter on December IL, 1905,
speaking about the Westminster col
lege of Salt Lake:
"This institution is the only loyal
American college in the state of Utah,
or within 500 miles of Salt Lake City.
The State university at Salt Lake is
dependent upon a Mormon legislature
for it's financial life. About half Of
the professors are reported to be
Mormons. The other teachers are de-
pendent upon Mormon favor for their
positions and maintenance, hence the
university lifts neither voice nor pen
against Mormon violation of law or in
defense of American institutions. The
great civil and moral issues pressing
upon the state of Utah and the adj
jacent states and territories are re-
pressed and ignored"
To think that a preacher who has
been in Utah as long as Brother Wish
ard and has been treated so kindly by
the teachers of this state for so many
years, would with malice aforethought
insult them and tell the whole
world they are disloyal to the
trust the people of Utah have placed
in them When Brother Wishard
goes so far as to say that the profess
sors (both Gentle and Mormon) in
the University of Utah are so disloyal
and unprincipled that they will cover
up crime for the sake of the positions
they hold, the parents and students
who have been so greatly blessed by
these teachers should inform Brother
Wishard at once that he must retract
his scurrilous statement and apollo
gize to these professors whom he has
so directly insulted. If he will not he
should be requested to pack his trunk
and hike to Liarsville and Ingratitude
where he will feel perfectly at home.
Brother Wishard, why did you leave
out Gordon academy, Roland hall and
the Proctor academy? Was it because
they do not stand on the Westminster
catechism and believe in the things
shall quote a little farther on in this
article? Don't you know we have one
of the best agricultural colleges in the
land, and that the Salt Lake High
schools are the very best? Brother
Wishard, if you will write to Harvard,
Yale, Columbia, John Hopkins, Ann
Adbor, or the University of Chicago,
you will learn that the students from
the Salt Lake High school, who enter
these great institutions of learning
stand higher in credits than the stu
dents from any other school in the
United States, the Latin schools OF
Boston not excepted There is an
other quotation from Brother Wishard
which Immediately follows the. one
quoted above:
1--WE who have long toiled in Utah
and have profoundly studied the peri
lous problems confronting both
church and state; we who are stand
ing by the flag and the purity of the
home, are convinced that Christian
education and Gospel evangelization
are the instrumentalities that are to
save Utah. Hence we must push this
educational and missionary work"
Brother Wishard, you have had sc
much to say about the impurity of the
Utah home, don't you know that Utah
has fewer impure homes and less
crime and poverty than any Other
state? Yet to get money to build
sectarian school you will carry the