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Show SECTARIANISM IN THE SCHOOLS. The church organ objects to our classification clas-sification of the supporters of its views with respect to the schoolB, And yet, Jf that organ has ever had a message to the Mormon people, It Is that they are a peculiar people, a class set aside from the world at large, and that It Is their duty at all times and under all circumstances to emphasize that peculiarity, and to hold together aB a distinct class. Conformably with this Idea and reiterated counsel, Is Its whole series of Instruction. It is upon this basis, and this basis alone, that tho claim Is made that Mormons must comprise half tho Board of Education In this city. What other sect In the United States makes the monstrous demand upon the public schools that Is made here; what other assumes that it must have equal representation with all the remainder re-mainder of the community In this matter? Is not the very position assumed by the church organ a complete confession confes-sion of the very classification it now nretends to avoid? What Is the pur pose of the demand that Is made by the church zealots " with respect to the schools? Why this attempt to fasten a church attachment, sectarian and as we believe unlawful, upon the public school system of the State? Can anything any-thing possibly be plainer than that these demands are for a purpose, and that this purpose la to fix upon the public pub-lic schools a sectarian attachment that Jf openly avowed would cover the plotters for It with confusion, shame, and defeat? It Is Idle to claim that the schools must not be made an object of strife, while all the. time there Is a strife to keep such "as have olready been rcap-tured, rcap-tured, and to capture yet more of them. It Is Idle to say that a non-partlsanshlp that Is controlled by a sect Is such a non-partisanship and non-Eectarlunlsm as the laws require. We reiterate, with emphasis, that the only possible non-partlsanlsm In this community Is the non-sectarianism found outside of the church circles represented rep-resented by the Desaret News. That this means true freedom for the public schools Is manifest to nny who comprehends com-prehends the real situation. That It means antl-Mormonlsm Is the weak and childish plea of a bigoted heart, dead to' all sense of fairness and propriety. |