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Show SAVE THE SCHOOLS. llfiBH The Gentiles in Salt Lake City should all awako llUHH to the fact that there is no politics in the Ameii- ISHH can sense In Utah. The chief priests of the Mor- UHIH mon church have grossly broken the pledges III WW through which Statehood for Utah was obtained; BUHI In the late election they made but a poor pretense JHHI at disguising that fact. j tHHI No doubt they justify themselves as they were flBIBI II wont to fifteen years ago, by assuming that they j are the chosen ones, that those outside their church are not entitled to consideration or, as in I the eighties, when one Mormon woman asked another an-other how die could commit such perjury on tho j j' witness stand, she answered: "I only lied to the I i Gentile god, I could not lie to the Mormon God." I I Well one of the things that the Saints want in j . particular is tho control of the public schools. j; They want it for several reasons; they want the J revenues in teachers salaries, 10 per cent of which ' :' with only Mormon teachers (and there would bo j only Mormon teachers if they had control) would I go to the church. They want further to reduce the j schools to the pre-liberal status when there was I j more Mormon religion than arithmetic taught in ! school. They want, further, to emasculate the j high school as it now interferes with their purely church schools, and the preparatory school of the University. Those are the plain facts, and being J so it is the manifest duty of the Gentiles in every a ward to nominate school trustees next month and H then to do their utmost to elect them. If they do, B with the large female vote against them, they may H ' be beaten, but they will have the satisfaction then H I of knowing that the result would have been the H J same if they had not tried to stem the flood, and J' f they might win. There is many a Mormon who !i shudders at the thought of the schools going back j to where they were twenty years ago. There is many a Mormon who knows that the Gentiles pay j the great burden of taxes in this city and who in his secret heart believes they ought to have a fair j representation on the school board. There is j many a Mormon property-owner who knows that ' the schools have been a pronounced factor in B 1 i drawing hither population and increasing the val- B V I ue of that property. m m ' But whether any great number of these can be m jfj induced to follow their individual sense of right or H I I not, does not matter. It is the duty of Gentiles to do the best they can as American citizens to save tho free schools from deterioration. Think of it. Gentiles; twenty years ago a part of the geography geogra-phy taught in the schools was that the Prophet Moroni, in the seventh century we believe, settled set-tled in what is now Brazil; the maps supplied for this showed the territory which was under his rule. Surely Salt Lake schools should not be degraded de-graded to that level any more unless they havo to be. It is worth a fight to save them, and to try and fail is better than not to try. Americanism is but in shreds 'and patches in Utah, one of the most important patches is our school system. It is time to rally and to try to save the schools and keep them abreast of the schools of real American States. |