Show FREE SCHOOLS is power if there ia any religious community which has a higher estimation of tho transcendent value of knowledge in tho true berne it ia the latter day saints their motto ia unceasing progression and their beliet universal salvation in a higher or lower degree of bliss according to the greater OT less godliness and righteousness of the individual mori monism embraces all encompasses all knowledge soars into the heights and plunges into the depths of all mental aspiration it is that our country is dott edwith schoolhouses all over that large annual appropriations are devoted to the support of the education of the at hundreds of aspiring young men and women are every year fitting themselves for the arduous and responsible task of training the youthful mind every annual report of the US commissioner of education proves with the often disputed assertion that Utah territory compares oom pares favorably with the greater portion not unfavorably with those foremost in the dispensation of education the high school already existing in our territory at salt lake city provo are ahr evidence that the leaders of this people hava by no meats been such adversaries of general education as they have been said to be another indisputable mo aument of our appreciation of science and culture is rearing its imposing front in our city and will open its boBp halls to thos alfr knowledge thia much keing we may well feel encouraged if we venture the modest suggestion eug that to place our educational system oa a solid general ani lasting foundation we have to take ono more step in advance and this is by giving the schools free freear the all encompassing vital fluid free as the refreshing water from the mountain sides free as the enlivening floii of light what great strides towards freo schools have we not maddt in the last few years sinca our material resources permitted us to deeta a greater portion of our surplus to the maintenance of schools this present quarter the public schools of ogden atty receive an amount of appropriation which pays to each child within the legally prescribed age leaving only to be paid to the tutors by the parents if the principle be once admitted that tho peoples taxes may or shall be partly devoted to the defraying of the opens of the peoples schools what is to prevent us from applying the principle to its full consequences and paying all the school expenses out of the public fond which is created and fed by the peoples taxes enlightened consider the establishment and unstinted support of an effic ant system of pub lie education as the foremost feces sity of organized organised sed society and we have witnessed enough acts 61 public spirit in the citizens of ogden city to know that they will receive the first proposition towards the es hing of ft completely free school system with intelligent acclamation |