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Show Alarm leal Friends Letter of Advice and Instruction In-struction to Public School Teachers a Stunner. General Public Had No Idea Such Methods Wero in Vogue In Utah. Since tho publishing of a fnc simile of a letter sent out by propagandists of tho Mormon religion to tho public school teachers of Utah, in which advice Is given to them to look to tho Interests of the church In tho Religion in Pub- schoolroom, tho llb-i(e llb-i(e oral voters of Salt . , Lake have had ad- Schoolrooms. dltlonal reason to feel that the Deserot News's plan to pack, tho School board with churchmen and Mormon sympathizers sympathiz-ers should fail: That letter caused a distinct 'sensation. It was generally feared .such work waa being done, but no one believed such a bold stroke had been made. Even good Mormons feel that the proceedings, of tho "Stake Board or Religious Class Work" Is carrying Ihe propagation of tho faith a step too far. No fair-minded man will condone this encroachment on tho public schools. Even the Deseret News will not defend it publicly. pub-licly. It will hardly refer to the now much-discussed letter. It dare not do so, because to do so would give enlightenment enlighten-ment to hundreds of Its own readers who will not approve of this sectarian plan. The Newa, it Is believed, will Ignore the letter sent out by the members of tho "Stake Board of Religious Class Work." reproduced, by photographic process In last Sunday's Tribune. It knows that loiter loi-ter Is absolute proof that tho ecclesiastics have been and are now operating through the public schoolrooms of Utah. The driving of Superintendent Frank Cooper. Gentile, from tho Salt Lake schools and the appointment of a Mormon Superintendent at an increased salary la ,glvlng tho Deseret Discrimination News crowd much Aji. to explain theo jB.gai, days. It was first Gentiles. attempted by tho ecclesiastics to show that Cooper was released on the ground of economy, but ihls would not do after It was shown that Superintendent Chrls-tensen Chrls-tensen receives a larger salary than did Superintendent Cooper. It Is also shown that of the eighty-seven new teachers employed by tho Board of Education, that fifty-one were Mormons and tlthe-paycrs. This Is another thine to makt- Gentiles thoughtful. Tho fact of the matter Is that every possible encouragement has been given the Mormon teachers, while matters have been made bo unpleasant for most of the Gentile teachers that they have either resigned re-signed or are in yearly suspense lest their services be terminated. Numerous instances are found where Mormon teachers have been advanced over much more competent Gentiles, and this has become so general that the Gentile Gen-tile teachers find the incentive to excel lessening with them each year. As one has put it: "There Is nothing to encourage one in the Salt Lake schoolrooms. school-rooms. We see teachers advanced with no apparent reason other than that thev are members of the church, while wo Gentiles Gen-tiles are compelled to submit to the discrimination dis-crimination or resiKii." There is no reason why Gentile teacher:; should not resign. Good teachers are In demand throughout the West. No State needs more of them than Utah. It is a source of much disappointment that Salt Lake's schools should be prostituted to the ends of selfish sectaries. Next Wednesday the voters of Salt I-ako will have an opportunity to Interrupt tho work of the sectaries. A majority of the Board of Education will then bo elected. The progressive clement of Salt Lake has an opportunity to checkmate check-mate the ecclesiastics. This can be done only by electing the American partv nominees. nomi-nees. A caucus of the so-called non-partisan candidates for the Board of Education was held laat night ut Judgo Tunncr's courtroom in the joint building. Tho Stale Board of Canvassers will probably complete the canvass of the votes for National, State, Judicial and Joint Senatorial candidates today. |