| Show THE OBIGINAL W B Praises Provo and its Schools MS 1 1M And Gives Politicians a Dig t 1 PROVO September 1882 l Editors Herald The railroad business at this station 1 sta-tion is rapidly and permanently increasing in-creasing in freight and passenger I traffic our manufacturers hare had an unusual successful season the T farmers have been blessed with an abundant harvest and the schools in i fc 1 7 j Provo including the Brigham J i I Young Academy have a fair attendance i 1 attend-ance which is steadily increasing t JI 4 1 The teachers have made a good impression f im-pression and the prospects were never more favorable for a successful J success-ful school year Since Professor Maeser has occupied the principal d I place in the B Y Academy he has m managed it so admirably as to attract 1 1 at-tract the attention of the entire community and the district schools l have been measurably neglected f J The idea I wish to convey I is that there is too much distinction between the primary and higher grade classes taught The competent com-petent teaching of restless children t unused to the school room demands i a greater amount of intellectual ingenuity 1 > in-genuity and patience than is called j for by the higher grades consequently conse-quently the teachers should be 4 compensated more in accordance with the service rendered With a little more interest manifested in the primary departments we would have the best system of schools in Utah Territory The political excitement is dying out and everything is calm and quiet at present so much so that it seems almost as ifthemilennium had commenced or else that the political politi-cal magnates were nursing their wrath for a more convenient season t sea-son Our Methodist parson continues I r con-tinues to advise the liberals I and while all are doing 4 their best to separate church and state it seems that Utah is destined to become Cither a i r Mormon or a Methodist theocracy Most of the liberals here claim to be I < republicans and when they wish to insult another they call him a democrat dem-ocrat Yesterday one of the liberal delegates del-egates to their territorial convention conven-tion called me ademocrat because 1 I was acting as agent for the HSH i ALD Now I wish to properly resent I re-sent this mortal insult for if there ji is a meaner creature down among the scrapings of total depravity than the modem democrat if must be the one who clings to a party with no higher motive than a hope for official offi-cial position whereby to work harm to some hated enemies He always stands ready with his vicious hatred 1 to defeat the object of the party to which he belongs simply to spite those he hates Such creatures in the semblance of men are rather to be pitied and when they finally F crawl back into their holes the liberal party may hope for success in Utah I hope brother H will take no offense at this for when he called me a democrat I had aright a-right to resent the insult I have noticed lately that you have another correspondent who signs his name W B and has got into a nonsensical controversy with one H D J I eahriot see any particular point in the arguments i advanced by either but I want it distinctly understood that I am the original W B t |
