Show TUB LIBKItALS AT WOItK p Resolutions Concerning Schools Adopted Last Evening The Twentieth ward school house was fell filled by tho Liberal voters of tho fourth precinct who assembled pur I I scant to the call of the Liberal county com i liilco for the purpose of selecting caniJi dates for school trustees j be voted for on I the 14th of July Tos P Bacho called the convention to nton order and a permanent o1ganlztion was at once effected by the selection of Parley I L Williams for chairtnati and A Hanauer jrl secretary On motion the clinic ap I Pointed a committee resolutions < on con slating of Messrs Btiche Lippman and I loge who presented the following resolutions resolu-tions which were unanimously adopted I I The public school svstem of Salt Lako city has never reached that high standard of excellence that characterizes all American I can cities While tIle junds I i the sup port of the common school have been ample the system of instruction in many I I instances and tho inferior quaiilKaiuns of 1 the majority of instructors have virtually closed ren the schoolbousc doors lo many child renThr F urth precinct of Salt Lake city comprises the Eighteenth i Twentietti and Tvrenlyliwt wards Tao Tvvciuyiirst ward has I commodious school house the Twentieth ward et I under tho management of two Liberal trustees has within the last year improved its siceommoaations very inutcriiiiiy while the Eighteenth ward I is without school house or a foot of laud L upon which t construct Ole We the Liberals of the Fourth precinct in meeting assembled hereby declare for a free school in each trout of the precinct demand an improvement in the system of i teaching and ask for the support of candi dates who will givo their Umo and attention atten-tion to advancing the cause and raising the standard of education in this precinct We believe ttiutmvalCiu iliou tluivcs I better when emancipated from religious I control and vo hereby > tlgmatiiu all I efforts that tend in any way to combine i sectarian instruction with a common school I education We hereby endorse every measure that shall tend to give to every child in his pro cinct tho Tjcbtinstvjctioiis possible common suralewiii tho available f units for wo ho lieve that Utah can cay be regenerated I and disenthralled from priestly rule by the t education of the masses The ligures obtained from tho enumerators enum-erators of the city census recently taken show that we have n tliis precinct 310 male children over ninevears of age and I b90 female children Hvecnma years of ae making u total of 1700 children over nine t years of age In addition to these there are Till male children under nine years of age and ill J female children under nine yoirs of age making a total of 143S It is i therefore safe to assert that the population populaton of children of school age say from six to fifteen years will not fall short of 1SOU souls For the accommodation of these children there are but two public schools in the precinct thecapacity of both schools combined being but 400 The population of this precinct is constantly slanily growing and the importance of the subject of education becomes at once apparent Unless something is done to improve our educational facilities tho percentage of illiteracy must suffer 1 vast increase and 1 three fourths of the children of the precinct pre-cinct be reared in ignorance Parley L Williams was then nominated for the long term two years and Joseph Lippuian for the short term one year In the Third precinct the Liberals nomi i precnct tasted S F Fenton for the long term and L C Cone for tho short term Meetings were also held hI tho other precincts pre-cincts cn |