The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-01
|RADY PLACED
4 IN A BAD LIGHT
IDAHO Executive Makes Mistake
\ in Praising the Schools OF
\ Oneida County.
DISTRICT MARKED BY
GRAFT AND P0LfGAMY
leading Mormons Trying to
Grab School Funds: Plural
Wives Teachers.
BY C. E. ARNEY.

uIlere 10 auQTcsS lHc pupllS VI thc Puo-
or schools and OF the Mormon academy
de received the plaudits of both student
"a eodies while In Preston.
lGOn his return TO the gubernatorial
e hair at Boise, he submitted TO an in
,rview to the Evening Capital News OF
-Csoise. an independent paper particularly
tceiondly to Governor Brady. Its defense
ICY him and as persued by his friends,
la s,tlicates that any quotation IL would
junake of his statements would be entire
,rP accurate.
g IN view of the record these lines of
lis distinguished interview are strlk-
lgly significant:
cg"With respect 70 the public schools he
uSlnted that those of oneida county are
y, ssrtainly up to the high standard of
.isther schools OF the state
tThcse are Interesting lines. They are
Sjgnifcant in scope.
~ For a great many weeks many thou
land people have been Interested In the
i nowledge of wronSdoinS at Preston, IN
- media county.
e This interest approached The point of
nf regret backed by q deep seated con-
felton, based on two particular condi-
pns TO which publicity has been given.
9th pertaining to the common schools
II Oneida county and OF ldaho. Each
icident is disgraceful TO Idaho, put es-
aecially depiorable TO the citizenship OF
tlnelda county.
(The first is based OH a concerted de-
1Ign on the part OF two leading Mormons
" Preston TO rob 4 state school fund OF
just rights by speculation in the
Inds Of the Oneida irrigation district
Polygamous Teachers.
The second IS based on the actions OF
,nle Preston school board In employing
sSyo poygamst women. second wives OF
9Th Mormons. to teach school and draw
iblic money from Oneida county.
1.-THE first affects especially the entire
ate. Idaho has now a contract for
900 worth of water for irrigation from
e Oneida Irrigation District company
rhir the irrigation of her lA0O acres OF
Ind, This contract was made nearly
ur years ago. and the money paid in
trmony with its provisions has been
led by the Oneida irrigation district
friug all that time and not an acre OF
is state school lands is yet under wa
Gustice of the higher order. and the
Nod governor of the commonwealth
Aould not only know of IL, but should
be know OF the pertinent fact that this
n. schools Of all of Idaho.
-elI6e it remembered that all tho reve-
cses derived from the sale or from the
SataI OF state school lands constitutes
irreducible state school
louad, the interest on which is distributed
$, nj annually among all OF the schools
'lioI all OF the counties OF Idaho. The
Il eater this fund the moro interest
)ney collected and the longer the terms
tn the schools OF The various districts
ma. Idaho.
BE it also remembered that at Preston
hsnere are two plural wives OF two arch
ry lygamists teaching school on certlh-
les from the county superintendent Of
Zelda county, which vouches for their
Il Mormon board who, by their employ
laent not only endorse the scurrilous
SRctice. but enforce the compulsory
HFool law requiring not only Mormon
1T Gentle children as well to sit be-
,Jlre these intellectual exemplars OF vir-
e (?) and receive daily instructions.
!. These are the schools of Oneida coun-
. which the governor Of the common
ealth is pleased TO say "are certainly
- TO the high standard OF other schools
- the state
Motives Questioned.
What motive could have induced the
LEI executive OF this state To thus COM
ent on the Oneida county schools? Why
u attention OF the readers of Il daily
per published in the capital OF a gl eat
ate 10 the high standard" Of the Onei-
county schools, where mothers OF
hdren born into polygamy We're hired
Instructors of young maturing school
dldren?
How do such odious compa risons set
the moral temperament OF the teach
p the school boards, the county super
tendents, and the school children oi
,ise. Welser, Caldwell, Payette. Noun
In Home and Nampa, where this daily
lper has wide circulation?
DO these towns ana these school trus-
aJ1fs feel proud Of the fact Jhat the
"'dtandard' OF their respective schools
NC been weighed in the balances by
s2rernor Brady and found 10 be equal
the schools OF Oneida county. where
W'esc low. degrading uncl squ!y practices
,e honorcd and e%tolled I'm the eyes oil
tDmaturing generation II clidreu9
what are thc schools of these various
E6fFns doing 10 be thus measured?
Better TO Keep Quiet
coaThe facts are not as the governor
se@ee. mem MS '0mp"riso" Is u"-
There is no other county in the state
yOu ldaho where Vultures OF Hades In
2 form Of human beings would reve
hOV the state school funds OF any county
George G. Parkinson and Arthur w
,n1,frt have rcycled In the funds OF Oneida
'nutpnty,
There is no other county in idaho where
'Hutboard " trustees would dare to en-
-.f}y teachers OF school children STEPPED
0ulQpolygamy.
i do not charge that this pronounce.
1t Nnt Of the executive was inspired.
pat the suggestion was made 10 him al
rston that such statement would re-
rye the hearty appreciation Of power.
n M agencies In Oneida county who arc
o'lBlously jealous of the old-timc prac.
OF poygamy so sacred in the hearts
men OF power In this portion of Idaho
N 40 pause TO remark, however. tha
u ola IL knowingly. both as To the thiev-
o VI tne Idaho state school fund or
ono hand and as 10 The polygams
fIinners on the other or these treas
Eple' outrageous conditions Governor
uy WAS cogniZaui when he made III,
Esemehl to the Capital News.
re Knew of them i'm all their sisni0.
ne ana dcplorablc equations and h,
10 from point Of moral perception
q eSiously In n statement which 4
~. "ould lower the standard OF III,
@ loois 9i INC other counties OF idaho 1,
u Preston. Of which slmy con
EonS ~ me INC patriotically inclined citizen
q - ashamed '"''''' a'' '''o'
of 70 wo-o pctter that Governor Brad,
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