Show educational MATTERS A correspondent says eight thousand children deprived 0 the advantage jot nil education in new loi vanto jt school h only a duplication ol 01 the condition ot things that in the capital ot the nation the young idea aheu permitted to at 11 cn occupy but a single dy of each dally school cislon cs slon yet the authorities arc the proposition to sell off the in abc city and substitute cr has been said and much has been done by individuals who have deemed themselves proper persons to look after the welfare of utah in regard to the educational facilities offered the mormon children of this territory in view of the above statement concerning new york and washington the interest shown by said individuals ia alic educational matters of utah arc peculiar and are worthy of some comment there are things which transpire upon the earth among men that arc hard to fully comprehend even when such things appear simple upon first investigation it would seem strange eliat the worker in the interest of humanity would leave his own home the district of country in which he would naturally one would think bo the most interested and travel 0 miles to live among a people who did not appreciate his services and who were not in as much need of them as those from whence he started and iu doing this that lie would have the audacity to return to his own district of country for the funds necessary to carry on his labors in the new field when he cannot help but know that the need is greater in the old than the new it would acm that the thousands of dollars spent in mission work in utah could be used to good advantage in now york and washington and in the old state of virginia is also n large field for the educator thousands of would appreciate better adron than they now enjoy and alic same ina bo said of many of the southern states the schools of utah considering jhc settlement of alio country compare favorably those of other places in the union the children of the provided with clothes and food and have n a rulo homes where they need not suffer for the necessities of life they arc not exposed to alie wickedness anil the corrupt influences which surround hundreds ind thousands of children in the largo and crowded cities they have access to sunday schools and various organizations where jhc thc arc instructed in principles of virtue and of faith in god when these anre viewed alic necessity of mission schools among the people of supported by funds procured to n great extent from charitable people in the large cities of the cast is difficult to understand tho consistency of it is not shown upon the surface it requires some reflection to get at the motive of the movement that motive when disi covered proves to be not simply one in alic interests of education inculcated in alic ordinary common schaal course but behind this their liy a motive ie attack alio mormon church or injury it the children a to lead away the children from the faith of there fathers this explains the incon of the idea of spending so much money here ostensibly for educational purposes when that money could be used at home in building more school buildings and in educating the poor little suffering souls who arc dwelling in poverty and dirt in new york chicago st louis and also in many of the log cabins of the south utah is n comparatively new settled country the people are gelling into circumstances which will permit them to give their children better facilities of education than they how enjoy missionary governors however may endeavor to cripple this proper mode of progress in that direction by the use of the outrageous veto power in them while in authority in this territory ns did the governor eai II 11 murray of mathematical be university appropriation bill of the last legislature the i university however continued its work and people demonstrate to the woi id that they arc lovers of education one of thu most absurd arguments used against the citizens of this fair portion of uncle sams dominion is that they do not favor education facts are plain in proof of the absurdity As this territory gets older and wealth increases utah will show n record in educational matters that will jakc some older districts blush with shamo in reading their own history |