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Show Till-- : ItKK gJ country ami the aim of c txi-ahouM bt to tnakt thm tl ill l i to Mnngthrn Hit weak place Ortlrc ut tho Lake at Entered Im rity, ap,j bring the to a h t ti t? hr fur trajsinlu.iui through t he mall, a Car f U.rfulncn., cl... muiicr. Doe any hmt man or woman be- Kates til Subscription: 1ovt that thli tan ! done ly placing Any part ol the United Stales. ( ana!a thorn In the hand of tin politician? or Mexico, one year. t! (U ia,'e paid HU Introduced providt that tingiand, Trance, tier many, and all roun- trie embraced In lnlcral l.tal tif the Hoard of Education Union, one year. potage paid - - 2,.VH hall he ejected biennially at the gen New Subscriptions may commence at any time) Ural election. Also that the superin durlngthe year. II the Paper N not the date .u j,all be ,,.nit.nl ,f tjl. Mrlled for. the publisher should Ik not general e.ettloit and shall tltl by letter, two weeks or more before ' ' . theterm expires. hold ofllt e for a term of four years. The T t)l.c..lnu.n.!-Kcm,l;.thl lln- - pu- t,,rvslnn ri.a,tK Ih. cl.Cl..,, Ushers must Ik by letter when u subscrllK'r wishes his paKr MopjK-dAll ,f superintendent Is the one that Is arrears must Ik paid, particularly tdijectlonabb. The result y e-r- n t-- alt r: j i 1 1 I t ! ' 11 r.H-tr.b- I tleln-tlNyon.- ; t tj-.- p I j j . Address till communications to g would be some politician Wo trust at the head of the schools. J07 Auerbach Block, Sa.t Lake City. our jaxv maker will consider tills mat- iter in all Its beatings before they give J. N. P0WER5 Editor It their approval. It should not be a E. 5. CARROLL Manager party question. Good sense and sound logic are against It. The only city we know of where the election of a super- 5ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1899. intendent of the scIukiI.k Is made a poThat bill now before litical question is Pan Francisco and tho Legislature, which the schools of that city are notoriously aims to destroy our corrupt. In many places the members of the Board of Education are elected public schools by' placing the whole school system in the hands of politi- by political parties, hut these hoards, of cians, Is a most dangerous measure. when they elect the superintendent We u:u.not prepared to believe it will schools rarely' Inquire or care what the is. It is a nobe seriously considered by the present politics of the applicant torious fact that wherever they do the Legislature or that it will meet the apschools are weak and inefficient if not proval of Governor Wells. The proposed law is fraught If the measure should become a law corrupt. with much danger and is evidently it would in a very short time destroy' backed by a clique wno care more to the efficiency of our schools. Every satisfy some personal aims than they teacher, janitor and other employee do for the good of the schools. would have to be of the political faith In the best interests of the schools of the party in power. Competent and the state the scheme should ha teachers would have to go to make in its infancy. room for ward heelers and political strangled bosses. The schools would be turned When Mrs. Cannon into political hotbeds and the school cast her vote for Mr. houses would be made the headquarters McCune the other day, for a gang of political heeleis. of bribery had Are the people prepared for this sort just after the charges been made against him. she was vigorof thing? We do not believe it. ously hissed by the galleries. This was Partisan politics have never had any to say the least very poor manners, but place in the schools of this city and it showed the temper of the crowd at this is the chief reason why our schools the time. Those who did the hissing no have attained such a high degree of doubt felt as much ashamed of it after efficiency. Turn them over to the poliit was over as anyone did. But they ticians and teachers will no longer he were considerably wrought up and on on account of merit, hut employed the spur of the moment showed their of the political influence they disapproval of the act by hissing and may possess. did not stop to thihk that it was a The people of this city of all classes woman they were hissing. and kinds take pride in the schools. There is no denying the fact that They have shown on more than one there has been in the minds of many occasion that no backward step will he people during this session of the Legpermitted. But this latest scheme to islature a strong suspicion that there innoculate the whole system with po- were undue influences being used in most dangerous favor of McCune. There may not have litical poison that has yet been attempted. Our been much actual ground upon which schools are now the equal of any in the to base such suspicions in the way of j BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, j . " j ! ' ; -- be-cau- is--th- se wire-pullin- tangible evldmce, but the air baa been aiinply charged with auapleion Juki the Whatewr the final action of the toinmiUte that I now . inveallguting tlu barge math by Mr. !uw may be, whkh I not made public at thl writing. theje will remain uplcon that there ha lnn undue Influences at wuik in thin Senatorial ciectlon. We hope the Investigation will be thorough and complete and that Mr. McCune will Ih fully exonerated. But there must he mi whitewashing. If Law acted In good faith, an he claims, the fact that lu u crept d the money and led McCune to believe he would vote for him In order to get evidence acalnst him should not create any sympathy for McCune. The charge of bribery is not easy to prove. If Law's Intentions were honorable he was entirely Justified In what he did, and he ought to he encouraged and commended for doing the state a service. If they wete not, of course he should he punished and expelled. The public Is going to form its own conelu- slons of the whole matter regardless of the committee nr the Legislature and it will he fortunate if the findings of the committee will be lic cidnlon. in- - line, with pub- guide I hone wh tontiliunt eared to know the of the people. The Democrat!. party 1 Its own worst It has ever turn I ! tionally and locally. While It principle and prof salon are go.il enough it wiIlM never to he able to put them In practice. No sooner doe !t gel Into element power than the which seem altogether too numerous, come to the surface. They are willing to sacrillce the parly and I he esteem order to get of their constituents control of the olllces, which they be- -' lh.e to be tllelr rightful perquisites. Ftah Is at piesent suffering from an illustration of this fact. Tlu people are paying In order that a DeiiUK-ratiLegislature may make a sixty days exhibition In a vain attempt to foist upon the people a Senator who has a petty ambition to shine in Washington society. The people have at last began to expect a dally sensation at the city and county building. A few a hopeless minority at one time or another seek to call attention to some needed legislation. hut the attempt is vain, and rvdf-seekln- j ; j : ; na- g c i i j though they Mayhap brought forth a simple air, A discord always creeps in somewhere, Cannon Talking about hissing. Mrs, In their fondest endeavor to please. should not, and we do not believe she Or a jarring, jangling, meaningless does consider that those who so far forstrain got themselves as to hiss when she Angers the silence to noisy pain. voted for McCune meant any personal At present the time of the members disrespect. They simply took this way, seems to he wholly taken up in making knowing of no other, of giving vent to serious charges againsit colleagues or in their disapproval of the act itself. similar charges' directed toIt is our opinion that it would have denying their wards themselves. Gradually been better taste on the part of all the with such "daily occurrences members of the Legislature if they had familiarity caused them to forget the respect refrained from voting for a candidate has due the state and their constituents, when the serious charge of bribery was and a style of pending against him. and no doubt this has been adopted in particthought was in the mind of those who argument hissed some of those who were rather ular cases. Another disgraceful feature beloud about casting their votes for is the fact that an endeavor seems ing made to place the control of all McCune in the face of the charges. In Boston, the hub of the universe, offices in the hands of a certain clique. Two years ago the party made many the great literary center and the home of John L. Sullivan, the crowds which promises in regard to the stand on Silgathered on the streets to welcome ver, but where does the interests o? President McKinley the other day the silver or lead miners enter into the hissed and hooted at Secretary Alger considerations of the party leaders toas he passed by. This1 was a personal day? The party dares not recall its insult to the secretary and a disgrace past, for it is haunted by the shades of to the city of Boston. But those who broken promises. But two years from hissed wanted to give a public demon- now aye, one year it will bob up and stration of their disapproval of Secre- present to the dazzled eye of the betary Alger's action in the beef contro- wildered voters roseate hopes never to be realized promises made to be broken. versy. The practice should be discouraged, The party leaders will not recall any hut public, servants should generally of the disgraceful scenes or actions inregard it not as a matter personal to cident to the present Legislature, and themselves, hut as showing that they with which the columns of our daily are not doing the will of their constitu- papers now teem. They will then think ents. It might sometimes serve as a it best to Sharkey-Fitzsimmo- ns |