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Show AN OFFENSIVE APPOINTMENT. No moro offenslvo appointment could possibly have been made than that of Ileber J. Grant to be a delegate from Utah to tho International Congress on school hygiene at Nuremberg, Germany, on the Oth of next month. Besides tho cxccrablo tasto of bringing an avowed polygamlst forward at this time to represent rep-resent the State, tho man has no knowledge knowl-edge at all of the subject to be considered consid-ered by the assemblage. The Smoot investigation Is on in Washington; is not that enough airing of polygamy at this time? Do wc want any more of it? Is it a good thing Just now to degrade the State by naming a jMDlygamlot to represent It, above all things, at a school conference? The discreditable talk made by Hebor J. Grant at the university, before the alumni ofl that institution (wrongly stated by President Smith to be a private pri-vate talk) Is still a stench in the public nostrils. Why parade the man any more? Does not the Governor know that ho Is a fugitive from Justice, having made a narrow escape from the service of a warrant upon him for the 'same offense of-fense that President Smith declares his readiness to face? Further, Is It not an underhand Insult to tho meeting at which Grant Is supposed sup-posed to appear as a delegate? Docs any one Imagine for a moment that he would bo received by that body If tho facts of bl3 record were known to tho body there assembled? Does It not look like a trick, to befoul the convention secretly se-cretly by the surreptitious presence 6f ono whose rejection would be sure in case he were truly known? Tho Governor has made a bad mistake. mis-take. It is a reproach to his high ofllce to have made this appointment, and a degradation of Its functions. Whether ho did it from a desire to rub the raw-spot raw-spot of the public spirit In regard to polygamy, po-lygamy, now Inflamed by tho Investigation, Investiga-tion, or whether he did it for any other motive, the act was unworthy, and must be severely condemned. |