The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-10
CHRIsTENsEN's DEFENDER.

church. Responding to the proposition
that "the authorities are at the bot
tom of the removal Of Miss Pollock
the News demands to know how tbs
will of the authorities was conveyed
whether by letter or verbal communl
cation. and when it was received, who
was the messenger. and so on. Answer
ing The News's hypocritical curiosity, II
is only necessary to say that the usuaI
methods doubtless were employed
"The whisper" was probably passed
along, and as In the case of the Federal
bunch s liquor law last winter in the
| Legislature, the identity of which would
be known by its carmarks' as an
Dounced on the floor of the House, " the
Whisper is always known by the
phraseology employed, and words sig.
nifying that it is "the will Of the
brethren.' II is a method Of convey
ing that will, which is both safe and
sure.
The sectarjan character of the move
TO oust Miss Pollock was evident from
the unity with which it was carried out
by the sectarian officials. The sectarian
superintendent originated it, and takes
all the 'fcredit" for it. He was "sus-
tained'' in the Board Of Educate by
unanimous sectarian vote The
earmarks' are plain all through.
Pursuing its stupid prevarications
further, the church organ has the fol-
lowing:
The Tribune has for wears urged the
election of an anti-"Mormon'' school
board The appointment of church mem
bers as teachers, no matter how compe-
that paper II has wanted an anti
Mormon" board to match the anti
Mormon city council, in order TO make
the schools too, part OF its anti-"Mor-
that 1t would like 10 see saloonkeeper
or two in that board, since its views
on saloons and brothels are rather lib
had no consideration in the office OF
that sheet To import teachers and let
Utah's boys and girls be. without, en-
ployfnent If they were "MormonS.' was
its policy. This the citizens have. for
tunately, resented. and the result is
that we have non partisan schools, in
which questions of creed and religion
Which is a reckless example of stat
ing things precisely in the reverse. The
Tribune has not for years or at any
time urged the election of an anti"
Mormon school board. The appointment
of church members as teachers has
never been considered an outrage by
this paper, but it has objected to the
appointment of church members mere
" because they are church members.
4 church member who is qualified
teacher is entitled to teach, and not
one iota Of objection has ever been
raised by The Tribune to any such en-.
ployment. Neither has The Tribune
wanted an anti ormon board. All
that it has wanted is fair board, non.
sectarian, one that would not carry out
any sectariau job, or wretched false
pretense such as is now SO plain in
view in the Pollock case, The Trib-
uDe has never wished to make the
schools part of any anti mormon ma.
chine, or any machine whatever. IT
has merely opposed making them q see
tartan church machine, and the intro
duction in them of the ''religion
classes of the church II has never
at any time asked or desired to have
saloonkeeper in that board, though
there are saloonkeepers filter to be
members than some of the present
membership; nor are its views on
saloons and brothels in the
least 'Iiberal. ., 1t believes in
the supremacy of the law as to these
as in other matters, which the church
organ does not. And it i'll becomes an
organ which dcvotes a good deal OF
it's time TO defiance of the law and de.
fense of those who defy it, to speak
Of another paper being E'liberal' in
matters of that kind. No Mormon tax
tion in the Office Of The Tribune, and
we must wonder what the stupid ass is
trying 20 get at in making such n
silly statement.
So far from favoring the importing
of teachers, and letting Utah's boys
and girls be without employment, the
precise reverse is the truth The Trib.
une has from the first stood for max
ing the schools home product, and
years ago its editor stated emphati
cally in an official report the desira
bility of making the schools home
growth, instead of an exotic. 1t is
true that we helioya in the nrocpes
of leavening, and that we favor the
bringing in of strong teachers from
time to time, in order to get the best
and newest ideas, and so keep the
schools up to the highest standard of
efficiency. This is what is done in the
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