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Show LIVING Warren VOL. 3. t SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1897 IS IT TRUE? If reports are to be believed at all, there is a deep-lai- d scheme on foot by which the school system of the city is to be turned over into the hands of the Mormon church. The fight that is being made against it is based upon the assumption that in case such a thing should occur, the present High .School of the city would at once be disbanded and the efficiency of the school system greatly impaired. Hence there are several Successor to THE f INTER-MOUNTAI- The only mistake the government made in oppose it, and we dare say that Living Issues would be the only paper in Salt Lake the issuing of the old greenback was that the City that would make an uncompromising wording on the bill read: "The government fight against it. But we are not ready yet of the United States of America agrees to to believe that such a move is on foot, or pay bearer ten dollars. It should have our read: "The government of the United that Mormons are necessarily opposed to States of America will receive this bill at its school system. To us it looks like a a sort of tempest in a face value for debts due the government. teapot. But we desire to have it distinctly That would have given the exact idea oj uneerstood that we are opposed to any sort what money really is. while it would have of dallying with our school system, no shut off designing thieves of the Cleveland-She- r e moves being made o unite the Gentile forces matter from what source it comes. There is stripe, who profess to beis lieve with some the it talk the of doing away comHigh of the city in one solid duty of the government to redeem these notes every time, because such pact, for the purpose of electing such men as School. We will oppose and vote against if of act would inure to the benefit of the treasury it reaches that the proposition degree are favorable to good schools. looters. The move suggests two questions to our importance. mind: First, is there a concerted movement McKinley seems not to be averse to If you want to scare an average upon the part of the Mormons to get control into convulsions, just say something advertising himself as a spineless, barefaced of the city schools? Second, if such a thing the repudiation of the bonds sad- tool of plutocracy by pretending to be doing should occur, does it follow that the school favoring dled onto the people by Grover Cleveland one thing while he is persistently doing ansystem would suffer under Mormon control? and his other. He sends his committee off to ask gang. They seem to forget that the In reply to the first question, we can say that war of this Nation was one of re- England for permission to adopt a bimetallic we know of no such movement. It may be greatest The negro, according to law and system; while he, as president, is doing all true and, more than likely, is true that in pudiation. fact, was as truly property as are bonds or he can at home to see that no such a thing is this as in other matters the Mormons have other sort of obligations. They were set possible. Mr. McKinley seems to have gradsome denominational pride in the matter of any free over the protest of those who had mon- uated very fast under the numbers, and so on, which inspires them to tutorship. If he continues as he invested in them, and nothing was thought welcome anything that savors of Mormon ey will be despised more by the he of it, even by the very men who now go starts in, is an move there but that organized success; into spasms because the people are seriously people than is even Grover Cleveland. on foot, prompted by. Mormons, to destroy of refusing to submit to a robbery our school system or any portion of it, is thinking Jim Eckels, Clevelands mercenary pupthat was concocted and made by the bondsomething we refuse at this time to believe. holders for their own who is filling the office of Comptroller profit. We say, repu- pet, The second assumption that the schools of the Currency under McKinley, wrote and diate the last dollar of them, if it takes would suffer under Mormon rule is equally a letter in the St. Paul Pioneer published blood and cannon to do it. is It to be few charged by Press questioned. a days ago on the money question, ojen those acquainted with the early settlement the which of was that this Nation is but One for of two the gist panic. Prepare things of this country that the Mormons when in will a of six months: dependency England; that it has no happen during the next school did the public system. Either Congress will, fall in line with the power and should have none to run its oppose power This may or may not be true. We will grant goldbug bond-thie- f gang, or else a panic will finances, except on such terms as England that it is true; but was not such opposition follow, the like of which has never been seen. dictates. It was a rehash of the Cleveland common at that time?. The writer was reared The hellions have but one motto and that is, vomit, and is just such a letter as would in Kentucky, and we personally know that "Rule or Ruin. The indications now are warrant a coat of tar and feathers at the such was the case there, although there was that Congress will not accede to their nefari- hands of patriotic Americans. not a Mormon within two thousand miles of ous demands, which means that they will the State; and, what is morie, this opposition proceed to ruin the country to the end that THE PEOPLE LIKE IT. to public schools came near succeeding so Congress will forced be to It The treatment which the people are getcomply. may near that today Kentucky has the poorest be just the same as was the panic that ting from the street car companies of this school system of any place this side of the Cleveland inaugurated to force the repeal of city is but the same in miniature that the infernal regions. But it does not follow that the Sherman law, only it will be ten times people at large get from the great railroad all Kentuckians are opposed to public worse. You as well prepare for it companies. They both charge all the traffic just may schools. Other States suffered more or less close the to shore and trimming will bear, and there are two ways by which by keeping in the same way. But the people everywhere your sails to ride the storm. We are telling they accomplish that end : First, by chargare growing out of these old prejudices. Our you that it is coming. If you dont believe ing all the people will pay for the service school system is Socialism,' and it seems it. wait and see what you will see. they give; second, by giving as little service strange to hear men who hold up their hands as is possible for the patronage they receive. in holy horror at Socialism going wild over A mistake quite commonly made among The whole system is wrong. The lines are anything which tends to impair the useful- reformers is to find fault with all other reoperated for one purpose, while they ought ness of this great and growing Socialistic formers who do not exactly agree with them to be operated for quite another. The cars school system. in detail. Populists fight Socialists, Socialists are run for the purpose of making money The assumption that the Mormon people fight Single Taxers, Single Taxers fight for a private corporation while they ought to are opposed to our schools is based upon both Populists and Socialists, and so cn be run for the purpose of giving service to another (what we believe to be a groundless) through the list. It is a mistake. They the public. They are public institutions and great assumption that the Mormons have not kept are all working for the same great end. Such ought to serve the public instead of a corpoabreast of the times. While we believe it is docs not apply, however, to Democrats or ration. Let us draw the line between public true (in fact, we know it is true that the Republicans. . They are not working for the and private institutions. Take the postoffice more religion a man or community has, the good of the people, at all. They may department as an example. Thr.t great publess advancements it will make), yet there is some of them be honest, but they make no lic institution is owned and operated by the nothing to indicate that Mormons have suf claims of being in line with reformers. Their public and for the good of ihe public. No fered more from this cause than have other platforms, if put into practice, would only attempts at making money are thought of. It ' religious denominations. If the Mormons are put the people in worse condition than they is the service that the people want, and if to be put down as opposed to education be- are. They make no pretentions to reform the regularly assessed charges do not pay cause there was a time when they did oppose whatever. In fine, their platforms oppose the expense of the service it is made up by it, we may just as well charge all Presbyteri- reform. All reformers should fight the two public taxation. The people do not . comans with being in favor of burning heretics old parties, but there should be a bond of plain of this because the service has been because John Calvin burned Servetus; or to sympathy and good will between the several rendered; the people have received the full charge all Methodists with believing in branches or schools of reform. benefit and do not object to paying for it. spooks because John Wesley threw his But how very diffeient is the case with at the devil. That religious denomirobthe of most Probably flagrant piece public institutions which are run purelv and nations of all kinds have at some time in bery that ever occurred was that at Philadelsolely for private gainl If a good service their history opposed education, is a fact too phia, Pa., a few days ago, where a franwill pay the company better than a gas poor one, well known to even merit discussion; but chise worth $40,000,000 was deliberately giv- then a good service is given; while if a poor that they are growing out of it is an equally en to a syndicate. The council was so service yields, the company better ' returns in well established fact. The writer remembers completely under the control of that cash than a good service would, then the particuwhen his own father, a Baptist deacon, re- lar syndicate that it refused an offer of service is poor, and it will be made poor to fused to allow his children taught geology on from another syndicate. The depths the verge of human endurance. Look at the grounds that it was contrary to the his- of depravity of politicians seems almost un- these facts. The Third Street line gives a tory of the worlds creation as given in Gen- fathomable. What a great lesson against fifteen minute service, not because it has esis. The facts are that while the churches present systems and in favor of the Initiative more business to do, but because two short may entertain great hopes for their posterity, and Referendum and the Imperative Man- streets south on First Street the Rapid Tranthey certainly have no pride of ancestry; date. The people hissed and hooted, but sit has a line which comes in competition. but the present hubbub is, to our mind, on a that was all they could do. They were com- The Rapid Transit line of course divides the par with the Irishman who flogged the Jew pelled to sit in silence and see their property business with the Salt Lake City line; but because he had just heard that it was the voted away by the very men whom they had the Third Street line gives twice the service Jews who killed Christ. elected to look after their interestt. It is a for half the business that the Sixth Street The views of the editor and the former little tough on them, but it will probably (we line gives for all the business. The Third policy of this paper are both too well known say probably) have the effect of opening Street line is midway between the Sixth to admit of even a doubt as to where we their eyes. Things almost as bad have been Street and Rapid Transit lines; so that if would stand on a proposition that involves done right here in Salt I.ake City, but the one misses the Sixth Street car, the. Third any union of church and state, or the inter- people like it; they lick their chops, swear it Street line catches him and, as they both ference with any of our public institutions by was good, and call for more jut like it every belong to the same company, nothing is lost. We warrant that if the Rapid Transit any church organization whatever. We would election day that comes around. g; man-Carlisl- anti-Morm- old-pariyi- te . ink-stan- . $ie,-000,0- 00 -- ADVOC N J Jf1 II NO. 44. If this number ia on the label eon- tainiiur your name, you'd better re uiiifUty quick, ae that ia the I Madtf ww new number of the next ieaue. No paper will be cent for a longer time than paid for, nor on credit, except by (pedal nrranKBinent. company owned the Third Street line that the Sixth Street would be increased to a fifteen minute service inside of twenty-fou- r hours. The reason why it is not done now is because they dont have to. The Rapid Transit is no better, however. They are both run on the same principle. For instance, the Rapid Transit service to Burlington Addition and Poplar Grove is the worst in town. It has no competition at all. It gives, or pretends to give, an hour service; but it uses its old, broken-dow- n cars, usually without fire. And the service is such that the people living in that part of the city are practically cut off from the city, especially of an evening. They are afraid to come over town lest they may have to walk home a distance of about three miles. The service is a disgrace to the city and an outrage on the people. Yet the people as a rule seem to like it. They always vote for it every chance they get. Only a few days ago they had a chance to say whether or not they liked it, and nearly all of them said they did and, no doubt, do. H. W. Lawrence ran for mayor' on a ticket that proposed to take hold of these great institutions and turn them back over to the people, where they belong; but there were less than 1,200 men and women in the whole city who registered their names against the system. They pay their nickel, swing onto a strap and swear that they like it and they no doubt do. Thomas Paine never uttered a grander truth than when he wrote: "Society in every stale is a blessing, but government in its best state is but a necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. We are today from much too suffering, government. Net too much, possibly, were it of the right kind, but certainly too much of the kind we have. Every millionaire is such as a direct resuh of laws that not only allow, but laws which actually assist one class of men in robbing another. No man can become a millionaire without the aid of unjust laws. If James Eckels could prove to the world that he is as big a fool as he tries to make out he is, we could look upon his vaporings with some degree of allowance. As it is, we can only brand him as a man who is so low in the scale of humanity that he will tell a willful lie ar.d slick to it, and back it up by the prestige that his position gives him, with no other or higher purpose than to rob the masses in the interest of the classes. If there was ever a mercenary traitor to his country who deserves to pull hemp, that person is James Eckels, comptroller of the United States currency. The bankers and bondholders are determined to retire the greenbacks, to turn over the issuing of all paper money to the banks, to reduce the tax on national bank notes, to increase the power to issue notes to the face value of the bonds. If Congress will acquiese in their demands, all will be well; if not, then will follow another panic which will be continued until their demands are complied with. Now mark what we say. If The Herald is to be believed, the be the to second Populist party party in point of numbers in Salt Lake City, the Democratic party of course to be the first. The Herald may be right, for Populists always draw the strongest from the party that contains the most brainy men. This fact alone may be sufficient to keep the Democratic party ahead for a time. is soon The question of whether or not our school be should maintained at its system system with standard improvements present high roin time to time, is a question entirely foreign to political partisanship. The only questions of fitness for a member of the school board should be competency and a desire to upbuild rather than tear down our schools. i r 4- - |