Show EDUCATION VS autocratic elle it was said of old would you rule men keep them in mental bondage the czar seems to believe in this ancient logic and with only about tea per cent of the who can read and write we find no encouragement from the government to increase the standard of learning among the people when a young man becomes edn batad he invariably becomes a thinker and thinking soon baies dangerous to the despotic system that holds sway in tho gov mant and it is a noted fact that the nihilisms nihilists lists are from the educated classes of bussien society the serfs and pece ants baem to think it a matter of fate when considering circumstances and not having sufficient intelligence to fathom or understand the real causes of choir bondage they apparently submit gracefully to what to them seems inevitable the american missionary schools in the realms of the czar were found to be a menace to despotism and last year vere closed the lutheran seminaries on the shores of the baltic were dispensing too much knowledge among the people and they were shut down much against the protest of germany and now the colleges of st petersburg are being interfered with and students arrested on mere suspicion the fact is the czar is worried over the students who are gaining wisdom in the college walls and his recent orders of arrest beem to bo in wit hithe advice given by the late COUNT TOLSTOI who acted at one time as prime minister his opinion was that the best way to deal with nihilism was to limit education undoubtedly the principle ia a good one to keep up autocratic rule this being a fact how does it harmonize with the oft repeated accusation that the mormon church of utah is an autocratic sort of rule has net this sect favored education from the very beginning of its existence it can be shown by statistics that the mormon people rank high in of general education and it is a fact that cannot be disputed that whatever they go as colonizers their first cares have always been to build a suitable building for school purposes and secure the best talent available for teaching the young the leaders of the church have always foe cored thesa undertakings and can never be accused of having endeavored to keep down education on the theory that education is death to autocratic sway is not this a proof that the ac regarding the people of utah being under adverse rule are nothing less than vile falsehoods THE new york world speaking of the idaho outrage says this is a case which illustrates the iniquity and tyranny of rule the constitution adopted in idaho is of such a character as to make the bill providing for admission a most flagrant partisan outrage it is even worse than the intended crime in montana for it fixes upon the community an unjust and corrupt fundamental law it is provided that cormons mormons shall not vote for the first time a religious test has been made in a state constitution under the edmunds tucker law polygamous cormons mormons are dis franchised these constitute about 10 per cent of the voting population of utah the idaho constitution dis franchises a citizen because he is a mormon whether or not he has been guilty of polygamy |