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Show THE FIKST WARD. l'rof. Allen Shows Up Some of the Schemes of the Feople's l'arty. The Liberal meeting in the First ward last night was presided over by Prof. C. E. Allen, lie himself made the opening address. His speech was eloquent and went right to the mark. He charged all the opposition to free schools to tho People's party. The people peo-ple of tho party, ho said, he believed generally wanted free schools; the leaders lead-ers had systematically opposed them. Mr. Allen reviewed the cowardly history his-tory of the People's party in the legislature legis-lature of 1881 in connection with tho school bill. Their intention had been to p lace all the public schools in the bauds of the Mormon church and to make them, in reality, private schools, lie showed up their scheme to tako tho money levied for these schools and use it for church schools in w hich the principles prin-ciples of the Mormon church would have been taught, lie told how Hcber J.Grant went to the members of the churches and asked them to help get the bill through, promising them their share of the money for their sectarian schools. Prof. Allon described in detail the bill drafted by Parley S. Williams last winter. It had been commended by ! hundreds of educators of the highest standing. In this connection he told how the People's party wore trying to make a point in citing the revenue law loading down the bill, and showed how the Literal members voted against thai, and tho unfairness of it. Told of the county assessor having this year assessed asses-sed property at two or three times its value, and ho classed this as a scheme to milk the Gentiles and turn money collected in this county over to such counties as Cache, Utah and San Pete. Mr. C. P. Wampler said that this election was a matter for all time with the boys and girls of Utah. The Liberal Lib-eral candidates, he said, wero all men who owned property here; they were men who had children who would attend the public schools and wero therefore deeply interested in the welfare of those schools. There was uo place in the United States where the schools were so poor as in Utah. They needed a change for the belter, and this change would bo brought about by the 'election of the Liberal candidates for school trustees. Excellent music was furnished by Kent's band. |