Show LIBERALS AND THE UNIVERSITY The Liberal platform compels us to state a few facts concerning tile University of Deseret THE HERALD has always been and is now a champion of that institution founded and reared to its present importance import-ance by the efforts of the Peoples party 5 always without the support and often meeting meet-ing the bitter opposition of the Liberal party and its chief organ The Liberal platform says By us tho scope of tho Deseret university has been enlarged and that institution placed whero it may become the pride of the territory This is correct with the exception that the Liberal party has introduced no enlargement en-largement of the scope of that institution and has through the governors in past years steadily opposed all appropriations made by the legislature to that institution Ninety per cent of tho patronage of the university has come from the Peoples party This is the first year the Liberals have had control of that institution and this is the first time in history the Liberals havo ever said a good word for it One thing and only ono thing has been accomplished by tho Liberal board of re gents now in control A political test for the teachers employed has boon introduced Four of the old professors had to go as soon as the Liberal board assumed control Four entire strangers fill their places As a result out of seven teachers I constantly employed in that institution besides the president five ara Liberals four entire strangers while two are members of the Peoples party It was not a political mill under the Peo pics party The board of regents did not formerly inquire into the politics Peoples or Liberal of the professors they employed em-ployed Under the Peoples party four out of eight professors constantly employed were Liberals and four were members of the Peoples party This division however was purely accidental as the regents made no inquiry into the politics of the professors profes-sors recommended by the president for employment at the institution The present pres-ent board of regents however did that very thing It has leaked out that the resents didmake innnirv on the nnrco of at least one professor to ascertain whether or not he was a member of the Peoples party When they learned that he was that professor was promptly dropped no charge having been made against him and no reason being given for his removal Upon this unexpected unex-pected and outrageous proceeding Dr Putr who had recommended the professor then offered his own resignation which L was not accepted The regents will knew that it would not do to turn all the professors pro-fessors out at once and told Dr PAm that he had practically accapted tho position for the present year and should not resign now n clear intimation that his resignation will be accepted as soon as the regents feel that they can safely dispense with him Chan cellor HARKNESS alone among the Liberal regents opposed bringing politics into tho university but he was outvoted For years nearly all the patronage of the University has come from members of tho Peoples party As successive Liberal overnors clothed with the absolute veto power through the unAmerican efforts of ho Liberal party vetoed the appropria ions made by the legislatura for the support sup-port of the institution tho expenses of the university had to be met through tuition fees The fees were paid by members of the Peoples party in order to pay teachers some of whom have always been Liberals and known to be Liberals for fifteen years past For the Peoples party regents had an entirely different conception of the aims and purposes of a university from what the Liberal regents have To tho Peoples party a territorial university is a place for the investigation and dissemination of truth regardless of the consequences to which such truth may lead For the Liberal Lib-eral party a territorial university is primarily pri-marily a place designed to influence the politics of the community Think of a regent asking as one of tho liberal regents did < what ware the local politics of one professor and then voting against him on that ag ground Think of another an-other asking if the professor of political economy was not a free trader saying that he would be dd before ho would vote lora lor-a professor of political economy who is a free trader Think of a third inquiring as to the views of ono professor on the silver question and casting his vote for or against him on that ground These were the inquiries > in-quiries made by tho Liberal regents into the qualificationsof the professors who had been engaged in the University one for fifteen years one for nine years one for five years and one for two years And on the top of this the Liberals point to what they have done for the University Had it not been that the professors who < were thus turned out preferred to say noth ing the University would not be in so flourishing a condition as it is today They all at present are proud of thoUniversity and desire its continued success They know that this petty attempt to turn the university into a Liberal mill will fail miserably mis-erably They know that university professors pro-fessors imported from any state in the Union Un-ion are not made of such stuff as to accommodate ac-commodate their teaching to the local political po-litical views of Liberal regents they know that the professor of mathematics will not feel bound to accept the Liberal view or the benefits of high taxation j that tho professor pro-fessor of languages need not also be an advocate ad-vocate of disfranchisement for belief only that the professor of political economy will not run to the Liberal regent who own stocks in a silver mine in order to ffnd out what he shall teach about bime bimotalllsm lIsm1 or that the professor of history will not of necessity become a defender of Liberal election frauds The very ground on which tho University J I tandswasvofc H < that < use by the Peo pies party representatives Tho money to erect the presen tiqe structure was loaned by members tho Peoples party after a Liberal governor bad vetoed the appropri I atiobs made by the Peoplesparty legislature legisla-ture for several successive sessions The act incorporating the institution in 1S50 before the territory was fully organized vas anvact of the provisional government under the control of the Peoples party and nearly the whole of the patronage and support of that institution up to the present pres-ent time has come from the Peoples party The very courses of study as planned were adopted by regents of the Peoples party The only change the Liberals have madeis to bring strangers in to fill the chairs 01 instruction The Liberal organ boasted last July that the Liberals intended to reform the schools in the Same manner that they bad reformed the police force The process appears to be wellunder way both as to the University and the district < hools In all the district schools of this city there is now so far as we can learn but one prin cipai who is a member of the Peoples party We do not know that there has been any politics in the choice of district school teachers as well as University professors pro-fessors buttbe fact we mention is significant signifi-cant We can tell the Liberal ring right here that they cannot turn either the University r or the district schools into missionary mill to labor for theirparty The sentiment of r this nation will not permit it The independents inde-pendents the real men of their own party willnot permit it The enlightenment oft of-t e age is against this despicable abuse of the public schools The schools supported as they nowrnro by the taxes of all cannot be used to teach the politics of oao faction or party The Liberals declaration in regard to what they hare done for the University is the most absurd piece of offrontry our loca politics have lately developed We shall refer later to the district schools In politics |