The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-09
CACHE POINT OF VIEW.
Logan Man Writes on Struggle Be.
tween COLLEGES.
% The Salt Lake Herald:

To The Salt Lake Herald:
In your editorial. 'As to Consolidation"
published in the issue of March 6. after
fairly stating some of the points in dis
pute in the college-university controversy.
you reach the conclusion that the only
way to settle the matter is TO submit II
20 vote OF the people for final and per-
ndnent decision 1t is fair. of course
10 assume that you favor such submis-
sion at the next general election 1t
seems to me that you are in error when
you assume that the verdict of the people
would settle it, or at least you make that
assumption without reference to the past
history of this matter. II an amendment
shall be submitted to the people at the
next election and shall be defeated by a
few hundred majority, will the university
partisans abide by that decision? The
record says no, and in fairness / think
you Will concede that they would not
Scarcely more than a dozen years ago
this whole question was gone over in the
constitutional convention. Certainly the
state has had no more representative
BODY than this one, and none that has
given the matter now in issue more care
full consideration. 1t decided against con-
solldatlon, and then placed the question
in the hands of the people who ratified
It's action. As far as they could or can,
the people settled it finally and perma-
nently-" Since then, and through their
representatives in the legislature they
have said No" to the advocates of con-
solidation, yet in deliberate disregard of
these decisions the university continues
to seek the life of a rival school, and to
agitate question long ago supposed to
have been decided finally and perma-
nentiy.
1t is idle. it seems to me, to talk of a
permanent settlement being reached with
the public mind in its present confused
state, for it seems that no rebuke short
of utter humiliation of its forces will
rivals life. and with the ears of the peo-
pie being bCmbarded with misinforna-
ton any unanimity of popular opinion is
not to be expected.
Would either side feel that Justice had
been done if this controversy were
thrown into a campaign in which great
national issues would largely absorb the
public attention? Yet that must be done
if the matter is to be adjusted speedily
The people Of Utah, undertake to say.
were well content to pay the bills and let
their educational institutions thrive I'M
molested. until rivalry and bitter feeling
developed between the schools. and to the
work of Jealous partisans more than
anything else may be ascribed the pres
ent upheaval in the state. Certainly II
did not originate with the people ii is
not the result of reflection or the exer-
else of good judgment upon their part
but is due almost entirely to prejudices
instilled and fostered by over-zealous par
tisans of either cause. Submitting it to
the people at the present 'time holds out
little hope of permanent settlement Let
the houses of the legislature provide the
sergeants-at-arms with good heavy-soled.
hobnailed boots. and instructions to kick
out of the Hobbies the poltico-educators
with personal interests to advance or pri-
vate spite to vent. who assemble there at
the beginning of every legislative session
and force this controversy before the
lawmakers. Do that and IL viii go fur
Their toward real settlement of this is
sue than the submission of any constitu-
tional amendment.
All the Agricultural college asks is to
be let alone. but at every session of the
legislature held during the past six or
eight years il has been harassed and me-
naced by the aggresstveness OF university
lobbyists. No sooner has the legislature
met than the word has been set to Lo-
gan, THE university IS determined to
continue the fight; prepare for battle
and in self-defense Cache county has put
up the best fight possible.
The legislature will get much nearer the
solution OF this problem by sending these
professors back to their class
rooms, and waiting for the people of the
state to enter complaint. than 1t win by
spending time listening to baseless re.
ports and juggling with consolidation
htlls Let tae matter de settled az eoor,
as possible but let ii be settled right.
F. J. MARSHALL.
Logan March