Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-24
WRONG AGAIN.
1900

The so-called American campaign Is
i now on and the party orgAnsi Is supply
ing the necessary amount3of falseh92Rsa3
to keep 1t going. 1t is noticed, however w
thatGits stock is showing signs Of wear
and tear The saneEold lies are offcfea
again and again, Though they have. neen
punctnred, torn UP and put out OF com
mission long ago. To-day we read;
.Polygan,y Lists Growing. and IN
tru,1ing in The schools Tomorrow 1t
will&be, Church In Politics. and and the
tfay after il Will again be. n olygallnS'
ard Religion in; the Schools 'l And.
thus ut goes on for ever and ever's as
long as votes needed In the business OF
I manipulating the rublic funds, can pc
caught by such lncAns.
As for the allegation THAT the 20
5lysamy lists are growing. we VIII
only say that the party organ ought TO
be Interested in that for the longer
they become the nearer the organ comes
to the $1,000 offered by Mr. Taylor for for
each case 1t can prove.
The other allegation we briefly notice.
The organ says:
.sTror wears the Tribune had charged
= that this very thing freilgion classes
taught In public school houses was
being done, and for Years the Deseret
\ News had denied it. III what
the Tribune had charged the News had
denied and the first presidency had
confessed. Y
There is not a word OF truthi In this.
4 The News never denied that religion
classes were held III Some Of the school
houses The Tribune charged that re-$
sligion was taught III the public schools
4 That We dcnicd. and deny again. The
First Presidency never made any con-
fession about religion being taught $in@
the public schools There was nothing
4 of the kind to contest.
1T is an old story now, but 1t bears
repetition. eligion classesi were held
in some school houses where no other
convenient place was found and where 4
the permission OF. the trustees was oh /
tanned They were held after school
hours. IS In a few INSTANCES teachers
were said to have dismissed school a..
few minutes earlier than usual, fol, the
benefit of the rcligion classes, and this
was, of course. not quite right, but attn
tendance was entirely voluntary. IN
every instance the class convened after
school had been dismissed, and it had
no more connection with the school
1 than ailectnre, or lantern show held in
SCHOOL lHllI'G
would have. The organ knows very we'll
that no valid objection could be raised
TO the use OF a school house, after
school hours, for a meeting approved
by the trustees and the people owning
the buildings. and so, with It's usual
malice. it charged that religion was
taught in the schools This was for
outside consumption and for the .in-
formation of It's dupes. That false
hood was denied by tile News.
The superintendency of the religion
classes, in order not TO give offense to
anyone. counseled the class teachers,
after the unreasonable agitation had
started. to find other rooms for the
classes but 1t was never admitted that
a wrong had been done by obtaining
permission to use the school buildings
after school hours for religious instruc-
ton. But the Lat ter-day Saints believe
in seeking after peace With all men,
and that was the reason for that wise
counsel.
We refer to this piece of history
-,,o,r merely 4 q cali attention to the fact
that the organ is utterly unreliable in
everything 1t says touching local issues,
1t does not want to speak the truth.
Like Lucifer, it relies upon falsehood,
misrepresentation, and utilization for
its power of leadership.