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Show an old-time son of tho Mormon faith yelled out, that the Latter-day Saints had provided the cily with free water. The speaker was cocked and primed for interference and responded to the statement state-ment by citing ligures to show that even the wilier supply under Mormon rule was inadequate, that the system was faulty and that the expenditure was augmented by ignorance. If the Liberal parly with its liberal policy were in power it would be able to remedy shortcomings short-comings in that service. Hut this was a school meeting. The father who does not care for the education of his children should not briug children into the world. Since 8(3 over B,000,000 has been paid in school taxes, and the return is yet to lie seen. People who believe what, has been accepted as good enough in the past is good enough for present and future are not tit judges of what is equitable and just in the school question. Such a building as (he Fourth ward school is a disgraco to a city of the character oi Salt Luke. lie asked the voters to look into the eyes of their children before voting and see there the inspiration of their ballot, lie was speaking in behalf of those who would one day be the governing power of the stale ot Utah. Tho next speaker, Henry W. Lawrence, Law-rence, said that Utah is at tho gates of an era of prosperity, and the vole of Monday will tell whether the entrance wilt bo delayed for two years. The first thing (lone in other slates and territories is to build schoolhoiises. This is tho only way to destroy class feeling and place the children of the poor on tho same footing with the children chil-dren of the rich. Tho stale has a duty to perform in this regard. It is to see I that all children are afforded equal facilities fa-cilities for obtaining an education. Public opinion should bo intelligent opinion. Intelligence should bo the keynote to every public action. The church buildings in Utah show that the people who were in power thought more of thorn than of the schools. In other sections the school buildings make some sort of a showing. Frank B. Stephens said that the inability ina-bility of the man earning a small salary to pay tuition is responsible for placing children in shoo factories anil other places to work when they should bo in school. Monopolies light individuals and unless tho individuals are intelli-gout intelli-gout enough to defend themselves they must go to tho wall. A child with a good education feels that it has something some-thing to live for. As it is, tho child of j the poor man in Salt Lake sees nothitig ahead under the present state of things. Colonel Kaighu spoko about the new school law, and gave great credit to Mr. Allen for his work. i JIJIMiE POWERS SCORCHED HIM. An Over-Zealous Mortuon Completely Knocked Out of tho Dux. The Liberals last night gavo way gracefully to the Mormon trustees .-it tho Sixth ward sehoolhouse, and the latter having got action at the school-house school-house first the crowd which had come to hear Liberal logic followed tho band over into the Fourth ward. Col. Kaighn presided at tho meeting there and Judge Powers first spoke. As the judge proccoded in his spoech |