Show SHOULD TUB THE TRUSTEES JOIN THE following was handed in today to day editor deseret news what is your bour opinion about the district scho school ol 01 trustees taking part la irl the suit to prewit tile the property of the church of christ of latter day saints j beina being consumed by the receiver and his at attorneys orneys aleksis williams peters hobson et al should the trustees joi ow in a movement to save something th tb the schools as provided by law or should they sll sit quietly by and see the cause of education robbed CITIZEN in order to intelligently answer the question of this correspondent it is necessary to reiterate our view 61 the entire transaction from its inception incept iou to the present tage aage the law provid proved aag ib for or the he ese Cating of the property of the church of jesus christ of lat ter day saints is a piece pece of legal machinery constructed for pur purposes p ose 8 0 1 downright robbery tue kue property properly in question belonga to the people who donated and placed it in trust in the hands of parties of their own tion they and they only have the right to say how bow and for what pur pose it be expended any person or power that seizes property belonging to another aud and uses it tor for purposes foreign to the intention and design and against the will of the proprietors is guilty of dishonesty the proceeding being robbery in its ita incipiency all subsequent transactions in line with and growing out of it are of the same complexion now it if the latter day saints are to be robbed it does not appear to make much difference to them in relation to who are the thieves except that they cannot afford to soil boil their hands bands by taking part in the transaction let others present the spectacle of so many hungry canines worrying over a prodigious kious boue bone but let them stand aloof red aad simply gaze at the humiliating picture pic tare are here then is the point of our correspondents pon dents interrogation no we have clearly located the proprietorship of the property involved and it to is not centered in the common schools nor anywhere else than in the donors then if the entire transaction from the beginning until now is legalized robbery why should the trustees of schools take a band in the steal toe property no more belongs to the common schools than it does to the government or even to the hungry lawyers who are seeking to line hue i their pockets at the cost of consistency and honor if the whole business is a crime committed under color of law how can the trustees consistently step forward and become parti cr cri immis minis the time will come when this whole confiscation business will be held up to popular execration as one of the most flagrant violations of the property rights of citizens ever perpetrated in a country claiming to be free all who take part pait in the steal will justly share in the odium of unmitigated denunciation and their names shall be handed down as self seekers at the expense of correct principles of the most detestable type |