Show SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SCHOOLS II SALT LIKE CITY Feb 181SSO Editors Herald i The amendment offered by Mr Jaques to the School Bill is as gocd as anything we can expect to get at this stage of the session of the Legislature I have always been an ardent friend of f free schools but the manner in which school funds have been anl by the provisions of the bill passed by the Council are likely to continue to be used renders them a curse rather than a bleesinc as from the time the first appropriation was made upto tha present gchcol teachers teach-ers that is many of them have seemed to consider the public funds as having been given for their especial benefit and consequently have increased in-creased their prices so that their patrons are obliged to pay considerably consider-ably more now besides the tax than before any appropriation was made runningup as high as 8 per scholar iri some instance where it formerly was but S3 and thus the poorer portion ol the community instead ol being benefitted by the school fund bava been obliged to let their own children run the Etreet while they pay taxes to help keep up schools where only bankers merchants salaried officers etc are able to send There should be some uniformity in using public funds required by the law As it is some districts will require re-quire thepupils to pay fourfifths or eeve eighths of their tuition others with equally good schools and less public funds will have them pay lOc per week each and still others will keep up a good chool for nine months in the year without any tax upon the pupils As a rule I believe the more school Junds in a district the more the people have to py to receive the benefit of it The next beet thing to the proposition of Mr Jaques would be to require the trustees to keep open a free school as long as the funds would last and then leave every one to send where he can pay for the balance of the year I would also suggest that every applicant ap-plicant fora certificate should furnish the Board of Examination a certificate certifi-cate of good moral character and that that should be all the religious test required The habit of some trustees of requiring a teacher to subscribe to any particular religious dogmas destroys competition and works aa ipjury to Ihe taxpayers If people want schools Jaught by teahera of apy particular church let I them support them by church funds If Catholic l teachers are to be exploded ex-ploded clbnc tax Catholics and if it is decided to exclude Methodists Mormons Spiritualists or infidels dont ta those to support our rights and our faith while we ignore theirs Every church has a right touse its own fumjs JJB it sees fit but no civil officer has any right under the con siUution of our common country to require any religious teat in the use ofpublic funds I have simply expressed ex-pressed my own view not expecting even the HERALD will agree with them but if it is argued that the opposite op-posite has been the cu tom as extended toward us asd many others I will eayJhat yoa cannot find anywhere any-where wrong but what has been baptized in the waters of antiquity but we should be governed by the olden rule instead of following in thsnarrow patbs of bigotfy and error 1 J ftt7ETICE |