Show U t CACHE POINT OF VIEW Logan Man writes on Struggle Be Between Between Between tween Colleges To The Salt Lake Herald Herad In your our editorial As to Consolidation published in the issue of March 6 after fairly stating some of oC the points p in dis dispute dispute dispute in tn the controversy you ou reach rOach the conclusion that the only or I Iway way to settle the matter is to submit It Ito Jo fo o a vote ote of the people people for final and per manent decision It is fair of or course to assume that you ou favor such sion at the next general election It seems to me that you OU are in error error ft When hen you OU assume that the verdict of the people rould settle It or at least you ou make that assumptIon without reference to the past history of this matter If an amendment shall shaH be submitted to the people at the next election and shall be defeated by a few hundred majority will the university partisans abide by that decision The record says no and in fairness I think you ou will concede that they would not Scarcely more than a dozen years ago this whole question was wa gone over In the constitutional convention Certainly Certain the state has had no more representative body than this one and none that has gIven Riven the matter now In Issue more care ful tul consideration It decided against con consolidation consolidation and arid then placed th the question in the hands or ot of the people who ratified Its action As far as they could or can the people settled It t finally and perma permanently Since then thOn and through their r representatives In the legislature they have said No to the advocates of ot con consolidation yet in deliberate disregard of o f these decisions the university continues continue s to seek the life of a rival rial school and to t o so so agitate a question long ago supposed to t o have hac been decided finally and perma permanently permanently It Is idle It seems to me to talk of a permanent settlement being reached with the I pUblic mind In its present confused state for it seems that no rebuke short shor t of utter annihilation of Its forces will wil l prevent the university from seeking its It s rivals life lire and with the ears ar of ot the peb peo people pIe being with misinformation tion any unanimity of popular opinion is ts i inot s not to be Would either side feel feet that Justice J had I been done if It this controversy were e thrown into a campaign in which great grea te t national issues would largely absorb the th e public attention Yet that must be done don e if the matter is Isto to be e adjusted speedily The people of Utah U ah I undertake to say were well content to pay the bills and let le t their educational institutions thrive un unmolested unmolested unmolested molested until rivalry and bitter feeling g developed between en the th schools and to the th ge e work of Jealous partisans than tha n anything else elfe may be ascribed the pres pros present ent nt upheaval in the state Certainly It i idid t did not originate with the people it is I Inot s not the result of or reflection or the exer exercise cise eisa of good Judgment upon their part but is due almost entirely to prejudices preJudice s Instilled fostered by overzealous par partisans partisans of at either cause Submitting it to t o the people at the present Ume holds out ou ot t little hope of or permanent settlement Let Le Lethe Lehe t the he houses of the legislature provide the th e with good hobnailed boots and instructions to kick kic k out of or the lobbies the with personal Interests to advance or private vate spite to vent who assemble there at a t the ho beginning of ot every legislative session sessio n tn and force this controversy before fore the th e lawmakers Do that and It twill will go fur ther toward a real settlement of or this is issue Issue issue sue than the submission of or any constitutional amendment All the Agricultural college Ollege asks Is I to t o be let alone but at al every session of the th oe e legislature held during the past six or o r eight years it has been harassed and me rue mea a ed by the he aggressiveness of university y lobbyists No sooner has the legislature e met than the word has baa h q been set to Lo Logan Logan gan The university Is ts determined to continue the fight prepare for tor battle and nd in Cache county has put up P the best fight possible The legislature will frill g get t much nuch nearer Marer the solution of this problem by sending these lobbying professors back to their lass class classrooms rooms and waiting for or the people of the state to enter complaint than then it will by spending time listening to baseless re reports reports ports arid Juggling with consolidation kills Let Ut flu Ura matter l ha be 1 as soon coon gatas as aa possible po but let Jet it be settled right F J MARSHALL ARSHALL Logs Logan 1 n March 7 i |