Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-03
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Is NOT MORMON.

A former state official and promi-
nent and active at a period in state
politics, writes as follows to the Lewis
ton Tribune, from Boise:
81 have been interested in some of
the things you have said about the new
educational blll also about the domina-
ton of the Mormons. At a recent
Commercial club luncheon here Lieu
tenant Governor Taylor made few
remarks. In a general way, he said
that if the north would send men of
ability, they would undoubtedly get due
recognition in the legislature. In say
ing this, think he voices the senti-
ment of everyone who had anything to
do with the last session of our law
making body. In senatorial years,
politicians who favor one candidate or
the other get into the legislature not
from any merit of their own but be-
cause they are going to vote for some
body for the senate.
GAS to the educational bill, good
many of us here don't like it. The
logical thing to do now would be to
abolish the office of the state super
intendent. A good many Ada county
people send children to the state uni
versity. There is. believe, larger
attendance from Ada county than any
other county in the state. The per-
centage of high school graduates who
attend the state university is unusually
large compared with other states. We
don't take kindly to the idea, of per-
forming a surgical operation on the
university. Cutting off the agricultural
department would greatly increase the
expense, would add another separate
educational institution for which there
is no excuse and would be a serious
blow to education in the state. 1t is
very unhandy to have the university at
Moscow. The item of railroad fare
from the southeast portion of the state
is an enormous one. On the other
hand, living in Moscow and the cost of
education at the university are compar-
atively low. Either the agricultural
department should be let alone or else
the entire school should be moved to a
more accessible point. There is no pre-
posal, however, to remove the school
coming from this county; that move
ffnent comes from other counties whose
representatives highest aim is to get
some public institution established
within its borders and they don't care
how they they do this or what the re-
suits are.
''Now as to the so-called Mormon
domination. These men were most of
them holding their second or third term
in the legislature. In other words, they
have had a good deal of previous eX-
perience. They were personally ac-
quainted with each other. They are
not of the class ordinarily called pre-
gressive. With some exceptions north
Idaho was particularly unfortunate il
the class of men sent to the legislature
at this session. Many of them were
intent upon making personal progress
sive records in order to run for some
other office later on, and they carried
this to such an extent as to be utterly
useless for practical and honest law
making. If it hadn't been for these
so-called Mormon leaders, we would
have had the worst bunch of freak laws
that it was possible to impose upon g
long-suffering state. These so-calec
'progressives' never took the pains t.
carefully draw the laws which they
introduced or to carefully consider
them. The only question that seen.
to interest them was whether the,
were extreme enough. North idaho.
rainbow chasers certainly did not make
good showing compared with the
steady, solid judgment of these so
called Mormon leaders,
II was particularly discouraged Will
Latah county, and the inability of tn,
representatives from that county t,
properly care for the interests Of tn,
State university very much disgustet
me. There is crying need in Idah,
for more real men and fewer politician
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