Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-06-09
Shame and Reproach Cast on Our Schools

curcular is to get 21,000 to help
complete a school so that Presbyte-
rian children will not have to go to
the horrible public schools Gas it in
timates) of Utah. 1t says senl your
money to Mr.. Henry V. Van Pelt,
Treasurer, Robert M. Stevenson, ID.
d., President. Can any one think OF
a more dastardly way to raise money
for so-called Christian school. The
Murderer Rose who was executed in
Salt Lake two years ago compelled
his wife to follow a life of shame to
furnish him money. How much bet.
ter are the people who will falsely
advertise our schools, our teachers and
our children as low, debased and dis.
loyal, to raise money for the West
minister College? Truth, in its mag
nificent edition of May 26th, proclaims
on the first page THAT Utah is the
educational center of half a dozen
states" This is signed by nearly all
of the business men in Salt Lake. 1t
llso says of Salt Lake in the same edi-
ton:
1T has the finest public school
buildings of any city in the United
States, and as good or better cOrri-
culum OF education that can be found
anywhere. The public schools, grade
and high schools, are free to ALL The
state university is located in Sail Lake
City and is an institution of which any
state might Justly be proud There
are also numerous private educational
establishments such as Westminster
Presbyterian college, the Latter-day
nit to- univ h.
stitute, All Hallows college, Rowland
Hall, st. Mary's and others. Salt Lake
is the educational center of the inter-
mountain states, from all of which the
better class of people send their child
rem to Salt Lake to be educated"
While the business men, the rail-
roads and all true citizens of Utah are
spending time and money in letting
the world know what excellent schools
Utah has. The trustees of the West
minister College through Dr. Wishard,
Robert M. Stevenson, Henry V. Van
Pelt and it's curculars are proclaiming
to the world, that all the schools with
in 600 miles of Salt Lake are disloyal,
degraded, and do not respect the
American flag, that all the teachers
within this radius are corrupt and dis
loyal, except the Westminster College
and its corps of teachers, that father
was broken hearted because his
daughter attended the University of
Utah, that a mother trembled because
her children attended the public
schools, etc. 1t is almost impossible to
|get people to emmigrate to Bear river
velley or Utah who have read the
Westminster College circular above re-
ferred to. One lady said she would
not think of moving or allow her
friends to move to state, where it
taught disloyalty in it's schools by
corrupt teachers and she showed Pres
ident Stevenson's circular in the Her.
aid and Prebyter to confirm her state
ment. If the Commercial Club, the
M. and M. Association and other Utah
builders wish to encourage good set
tiers and capital to come to Utah,
they should at once deny the
false and foul stories that
DR.. Wishard and President Rob-
ert M. Stevenson are spreading
through the length and breadth OF
the land. The time has come for the
Commercial Club and other kindred
societies if they wish to attract cap
ital and settlers and upbuild Salt Lake
City and Utah, to lay aside religion
and politics and combat all Utah
slanderers and defamers, no matter
from what source they come.
Varv rasnectfullv