The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-25

information is obtained from the re-
vlsed statutes of Utah, issued that year.
The statutes were compiled by Nor
mons.
Gentiles Created School System.
In 1888 a gentle, Liberal and a
man who today is an American, drew
up the bill upon which the present
school system is based. All the terri
torlal officers then were gentiles. The
legislature was composed of both gen
tile and Mormon. The gentle officers
forced the passage Of the law through
the legislature, the Mormon members
trustees In Salt Lake county, voted for
the bill,
When the election was held the Lib
era party, to the astonishment of the
eccleslasts, elected the trustees, and
that date is the time of the begin
ming of the present school system,
That the Deseret alphabet was used
III the schools Of Utah and of Salt Lake
for wears, there is no question. Over
the doorway of the old nineteenth &c
clesiastical ward school building, after
ward the Irving school, was a stone
block on which was inscribed nine
tecnth ward and then came a number
OF letters from the Deseret alphabet
News Prevaricator.
In its effort 10 distract attention
from the question, the News cites the
provision In the state constitution of
Utah, which provides;
The public school system shall in
ciude kindergarten schools; common
schools, consisting of primary and gram
mar grades; high schools; an agricultural
college, university. and such other
schools as the Legislature may establish.
The common schools shall be free The
other departments OF the system shall be
supported as provided ny law Provided
that high schools may be maintained free
In all cities Of the first and second class
now constituting school districts, and In
such other cities and districts as may be
designated by the Legislature.
Then the News comments upon this
clause in the constitution thus
Here Is the Constitution adopted in
1895, by an assembly largely Mormon"
that Is TO say. composed of citizens a
majority OF whom were church members,
and presided over by Hon, John Henry
vlding for free common schools and free
high schools. and yet the veracious
Tribune scribe says "the public school
system of Utah. of Salt Lake, is due en-
could the Gentle element have done
in the Constitutional convention against
the opposition of the Mormon" members?
Due Entirely to Gentiles.
The Tribune still maintains that the
public school system of Utah, OF Salt
Lake. is due entirely TO the GENTLE
elcment-because Gentiles created it,
There is no question rs to this: Had the
constitutional convention been com.
posed entirely Of Mormons. the clause
providing for the public schools would
have had 10 be inserted no difference
what the view of the convention, for
the enabling act passed by Gentile
congress, signed by n Gentle presi
dent, made ii absolutely obligatory
upon the constitutional convention 10
put such Il clause in the constitution,
The enabling act was mandatory. The
fourth clause Of the third section
roads;
Fourth. That provision SHALL be
made for the establishment and main
tenance of O. system Of public schools,
which shall be open to all the children
Of said state, and free from sectaTian
control.
Had to Vote for Schools.
This absolutely and conclusively
shows thatSGeniifes created the public
school system of Utah. II was n
grounding case with tho Mormons. II
was free public schools or no state.
II was the same as the clause "that
pOIygamOuS or plural nlaTr1dSP arc TOT
ever prohibited. - The constitution
contains this clause. The Mormons
had 10 put it in the constitution. They
had no choice.
Utahns arc so used to catching the
church authorities in deliberate lies
by word Of mouth that but LITTLE at
tcntion is given them, but it is only
occasionally that the church authori-
Ties put their lies in black and white,
that is, print them. Because this has
been done regarding the school ques.
tion in the book cited, is the reason
why the News howls so loudly. Calling
attention TO these printed lies Of the
authorities is cutting into the quick
flesh. 1t hurts and hurts badly.
However many missta tements of fact
against the progressive people in Utah,
the people who made the state what ii
is today by developin@ it. the bureau
of information in the Temple block will
continue to circulate the book cited
Should some one attemnt TO distribute
a book at the Temple grounds con
tanning real information about Utah
and its people the church would de
mand his or her arrest Meanwhile
the church book. filed with misinfor-
nation, continues to be given out by
missionaries set apart to spread the
Imisinformatiou.