Show B. Principal of the Salt Lake Collegiate Slanders All Utah Teachers and the Public Schools Christian man has any business to try to raise a family in said Professor B. principal of the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute in an address to all Home Missionary For metal low statement can not be too strongly As an insulter of the boys and tha and our schools in B. is certainly the typo Here is his entire quotation on Utah in by the mountains under the domination of an with such political and and in the midst of such moral the young people of Utah are growing Would yo-u- be willing to raise your daughter Would you be trilling to raise your son One of our Christian and one of those who understands the conditions said to me a few weeks Christian man has any business to try to raise a family in The foregoing words were published under B. in the Presbyterian Mission for and also in the Christian Statesman for and other so-called Christian papers in the Eastern We therefore say to the M. M. and the Commercial You condemned the Burnett Short for alleged expressions that he had made against Utah on the spur of the but B. took his time to write this statement about He knew that he he took lied when he wrote pains in the wording of and he sent it broadcast in such a manner that it would do the greatest injury and frighten away many good people who contemplate coining here to Gentlemen of the Commercial Club and the M. M. you are doing a laudable work in boosting By sending out truthful literature and setting forth Utah's great natural resources and her common her high her her and all of her great religious and commercial institutions you are doing good work for the of Utah all through the eastern B. is doing all he to counteract your work and to injure this call a meeting of your publicity invite the B. and the editor of the Utah Independent to If the editor of the Utah Independent is making false charges or kick him out of if B. has cram down his and let world know I know your your lure and speeches are much to filtrate B. zy's and other falsehoods that have been implanted in minds of many people who aw timid about investing money here or about coming to Utah to But it would be easier and cheaper to call B. to time and stop tig pollution's than to m If the people of Salt Lake getting the typhoid fever and II was ascertained that it came from impure drinking water from City and if also it became known that a gang of people were polluting the water just above the city water would the City Council vote to build a filters tion plant to purify the water when three or four policemen with 9 boots or an 18 locust would stop the Stop B. and from defaming the state of Utah then the Outlook and oth I helpful-Utah literature will er II 0 ten times as fur as they do gl e- T 1 aro some more of the 1 outside of Salt jj jj-e which is exceptional J in that the majority of the lation is go to j of the smaller and 1 see the real results of their Jj For it is by their J ft nits that ye shall know S Yon-will find social conditions such that I could not dare to j attempt to describe them and I am sure that yon not ima-i cine all that I would have you S You will find that the young people do not even un- some of the social and moral standards that we regard i as most The ij innocent trusting hours ol 1 courtship and pure aie The B. cannot give the name of one town in Utah where the social conditions are so bad that he would not dare to describe them and where the morality is so vile that one cannot imagine neither any place in which pure love and courtship are The B. belittles Utah's high schools in the following was ger than all the New England 1 states and Delaware and Maryland and in all this vast state there are just fourteen public high The B. bewails the great lack of high schools in Utah in the following boys and girls who wish an education must find board and room in one of the larger towns and attend the public lush schools Do you realize what that means for pupils of high school age in the moral atmosphere of They may go to one of the Mormon where their coming will be Do you realize what that would knew when ho wrote this that the high school f are numerous and that the Salt Lake City school does not receive outside that Utah spends more of her total wealth on public education than do the New England and that the of both the public and the Mormon high schools is clean and What has to say for And what do honest think of as a proper teacher of die youth of n |