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Show THE BEE. Rescue Homo It though it io on ('oinmereiid Mreot. ruiilot! lift. a 1h established, ovon THE BEE'S GALLERY i 'OF ft ft ft COMIC of tin cities in tin east are establishing pension fundi for teacher of tin public schools who have worn themselves out in years of sorvin. Tim Idea seems a very ruod one. for no nnhlie servant renders such a "t eat amount of service of a very high quality, for as poor pay, as the teachers of our puplio schools. Teaching is a "rind" of the most trying hind, exhaustive to body and mind alike. teacher, ami they are the only class in To the demand, teaching involves not only continuous teaching, hut continuous study. The teachers in our public schools are not through with the dismissal of classes in tin afternoon. He or sin must attend meetings, pursue studies and map out work for the morrow. Tliero is no holiday to the teacher; the work must even be taken to bed. Then are worries about the charges in their can: their health and comfort has to he looked after, and very often the purse of the teacher is taxed to clothe little folks, or provide things for tin school room to satisfy tin whims of some department superintendent who is usually well paid and often thoughtless about the hardship imposed upon the average teacher, on whom, perhaps, as is very frequently the case, parents or whole families depend for support. Then the teacher wears out. He wears out all over and is good for nothing after that. Having spent a lib in exhausting their energies for the educat'on of our chidlren, the pension idea seems very just. Tin cause is one that appeals to everyone who values education. Some day, perhaps, Salt Lake will fall in lino with many eastern cities whose people are making liberal provision to support exhausted and superanuated moulders of Qtlic youth in their communities. up-to-dat- Well-Know- - Utahns. n e ft ft St. Louis Mirror man talks on the Rob-over Congressman This great erts question: Roberts, of Utah, is entirely unnecessary. If the man has three wives, according to the Mormon faith and against the law of the land, let it be proved. He admits that he supports wives to whom he was married under the Mormon rite, but lie does not admit that he lives with them. There is a difference. As to the right of congress to expel Mr. Roberts, that is subject to no doubt whatever. Congress is the judge of the qualifications of its members, and it has always been so. If Mr. Roberts lives with more than one wife, lie will bo unseated. If he only does the decent thing by women married to him in good faith, in Mormon honesty, and sees that they are provided for, it is likely he will not be disturbed. Polygamy is not yet proved against Mr. Roberts. When it has been proved he should be ejected from congress. One man one wife, is an essential of civilization. Mormonism of the polygamous sort must be stamped out, but it will not do for congress to condemn Mr. Roberts until it has evidence of his guilt. It will not do to persecute him and arouse a fanaticism which we saw in operation when the Danites avenged Nauvoo at Mountain Meadow. 'T IJ IS is how tho A to-d- o ft ft ft T is said that at a caucus of the newly elected Republican councilmen, Mr. George Buckle was selected as president of the new council. If this is authoritive it augers well for the incoming administration. Mr. Buckle has had a great deal of experience in public affairs concerning the city, is a just presiding officer and the honor could not fall upon a better man. With Buckle in the chair there ought to he an absence of disgraceful scenes which have to often been enacted on the floor of the chamber during tin. past few administrations. ft ft ft 4 AND now word comes from authentic sources that there is soon to bo another sweeping change in connection with the Herald management. The retirement of Managing Editor McKay was the beginning, and others, according to all accounts, are soon to make places for new men. Mr. MeCune lias been convinced by friends that it is useless for him to try and secure any political recognition for a few years at least, and though he might be putting up for a dozen papers it 'would not help in any way to secure for him the coveted prize a United States senatorship. Not so many moons ago there was a consultation between the count, Mr. Chambers, Rood and others when the Herald matter came up for consideration. Mr. MeCune is credited with having used some emphatic language, asserting that the organ had never lost so much money as at present, and that the only course open was to make some decided changes. Rumor has it, too, that resignations were demanded, and some were alleged to have been handed in. The organ is proving considerable of a white elephant on the hands of the present backers, the losses since MeCune assumed control being something like $30,000, so it is said. Some assert that the entire Herald company is to be reorganized and a new one formed with MeCune and Chambers as the principal stockholders. Then, it is said, Fisher Harris may be made manager, and the sheet conducted on economical lines. |