The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-06
THE PoLYaAMIsTs' CAPTURE.

The capture OF the Agricultural Col
lege by the dominant polygamous cult
of the Mormon church is now complete
The homogeneous sentiment which has
prevailed heretofore in the college is
completely routed. and we shall now
hear no more criticism Of that institu-
tion from Governor Cutler or from the
committee that he appointed last year
TO report upon the duplication of
studies between that college and the
University. The duplication can now
go on unmolested, for doubling up is
now the rule. The idea Of oneness as
to one wife, Of one place to study tho
classics, one general classical institu
tlon for the State, is now done away
with altogether, and plurality rules in
sentiment, in idea. and also in central
force.
AT the closing exercises for the year
in the college on Tuesday, the old
regime went out and the new took pos
session. The fraudulent character OF
the operations of the new control are
we'll shown in the treatment given
to Mrs. Dalinda Cotcy, the
very efficient professor in charge
of the domestic arts department
in the college, lady who has done
excellent work for many years past
and has trained conspicuously well
very large number Of young ladies.
Without her consent, and even without
her knowledge, she was given a leave
of absence that had not in any way
been applied for. Mrs. Cotcy very
properly resented this, considering it a
dismissal. And she splritedly blocks
the game of the tricksters to use her
name in their catalogues and pro-
grammes, by absolutely forbidding such
use. Is the position wanted for
some lecherous leader S polygamous
wife'
Another instance OF thc per6dy of
the new management is in lis surreptl-
tious cut of $500 in the salary of Pro
fessor James Dryden, a man who is
an authority throughout the United
States on the matter of poultry. and
who has brought the Agricultural Col
lege of Utah into good deal Of promi-
nence by his scientific work in this
line. Professor Dryden very properly
and very naturally resented this cut
OF his salary, by resigning. No doubt
the intention IN making the cut was
to force him out without taking the
responsibility of ousting him. His
place, of course, is wanted for some
good brother whose idea of this pro-
fcssorship is to be able TO gather up
the days eggs as the night comes on.
Two other members of the faculty
who saw their doom in the mean and
cowardly action Of the trustees also
sent in their designations.
State Superintendent A. c. Nelson
delivered an able address to the gradu.
ates in which he held up high ideals
of education aud training, pointing out
the advantages thereof in practical life;
and he urged, in fitting language, that
the graduates should apply in their
daily vocations the lessons they had
learned at school, and exercise their
minds i'll the acquisition of further
knowledge to be applied in the same
way and also to keep their minds active
and fortify their characters as well,
from the best models of the world
His reference TO and nigh tribute upon
President Kerr, who was Indignantly
ousted by the polygamous gang. was
received by the students exceedingly
,an l,,.. &c hn
outrage, with gloomy faces and much
mental writhing. Superintendent Mel.
son pointed out the disadvantages 10
the State in the loss of man of Presi
dent Kerr's personality, requirements,
and administrative ability There is
no question but that the exponents of
the polYgamous idea who are now in
control of the college have delivered
upon the State vicious and foul blow
in its educational progress by their an
tagonism TO and dirty treatment of
President Kerr
The Tribune's correspondent states
that the local atmosphere in Logan on
the college question is Every sultry,
with a great deal Of indignation over
the successive steps that have been
taken sucakingly and Indignantly to
eliminate from the faculty first of all
the apparently to them) obnoxious
President Kerr, and also all Gentiles
who do 1et give in an express and
slavish assent to the pelygamistic pro
gramme. Governor Cutler and his
crowd are now in absolute control of
the college, after a warfare planned
therefor for upwards Of three years;
probably, indeed, even before Cutler S
election. And perhaps one of the rea-
sons why he was elected was so that
he would obey orders and carry out this
programme of aggression and degrade
tion against the college, A great deal
has been said in the past among the
Logan people about programme TO
destroy the Agricultural College. And
yet there has never at any
time been any open programme