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Show ft RESOLUTIONS )i Adopted by Utah Co. trustees and teachers. AGAINST THE SCHOOL LAW. Ev;ry friend of education should endorse them. To His Excellency tlio Oovornor, and I?glstatlva Assembly ol tlio Territory of Utah: In view of the fact that our excellent educational standing In this territory Is largely duo to the beneflcient provisions ofourpieseat school law which recogslzcs tho wishes mid will of tlio people nt, or nearly at every step, thus recognltlng the great and grand American principle of loo.il government, and in view of the otlitr fact tlmttimlorour present system of election and Instruction, our schools nro caret! for, by whoso Interests nto directly Interwoven with tlicni, our teachers capable and qualified and our pupils advancing abreast of those in the front of the ndvanced stnto schools. Therefore, we aro striekly in favor of I Its contlnuanco with tho addition of an I nmendntcnt providlngtho fullest oppor- I tunlty to every child In the territory to I rcccivo tho amplest school boneflts. I - without impairing its present pro- I - visions. K n " do lieroby demand of our IP jf' legislators to retain our present school y law, except ni to nece-sary amendments, nJ lu solemnly proiest against the j -' inssago of Council Hill No. 63, entitled It "A Hill to provide for ti Union System If ' lMuenlion" now pending before Ifc -i v urhonorabIobody, for tho following ! .i , leasons: """' I. Uecauno tho Territorial Board of 1 I'ducation aro made appointlvo instead f . ol elcctlvo nnd aro inado responsible to L'.- none TV II. IJecause tlie. commissioner, is to f, receive an exorbitant compena ition, to- , V gcthcr with his deputy. '.JtHSr" - IIX- Because It discriminates against Ply- , certain popular and established cduca- .VnjJL- tlonal Institutions of learning in this Jjp '-Territory, and against teachers of known K C nnd practical ability, who ar-iA- - 1 ''- " h.v mn university ofUtnh or other jjJFm ' stato normal schools, as Indicated In JHwf section 0 of said bill. PJMl IV. Because tho proposition to unlto Wjrkc tho various ecliool districts of each )W conntv except cities of the first and 'Ik, second class into one school district, is, T; ' under our present conditions, unwise, ? rt unnecessary, and Injudicious, and will, -,' we believe, complicate our present m a llnancial condition and injure the cause Jt.I J- of education. illjK V. Because said school district Is to In 1 b5 placed under a Board of nine mem- IB' bers, who ueceeenrlly cannot be real- P dents of the districts, as now organized, jrl F and thcrehie willnotbeindlstrict touch Sit i with tho growing interests and constant k4 demands of each distinct part of the Sbs- contemplated new district. n' VI. Because it is a direct thrust at iff tho vital principle of local self govern- l!Br ment in that it deprives the citizens of iwk the school districts, as now established, fl J of tho right to elect tiieir own officers jjW and through them, engago teachers ot tiWf their own choice nnd compels them, in- wj tend to choose nine meuibers scparsto BT. J. from nnd not residents of tho present U .1 districts, and thoso whoso interests and , opportunities must, necessarily, fall far B I short of our present system. H ll VII, Becauso it imposes bonded and K 'il other indebtedness upon tho inhabitants W, iJl of certain school districts, contracted by I': il others. 9m yft VIII. Bcmubo the passage of the Bill IM will creato disorder, disturb tho excol- JR i w lent rcsultn of the present, introduce un j j5r" Amerie.in obligations nnd foist upon tho f HI people those not of their immediate K 9 choice, against all of w lilch, wo earnest- w n ly protest. |