Show university ef utah thera is a great cry by the demo-cratic press of the territory concern aag the treatment of iha of utah by the last legislature th make the claim that there was a de-sire on the part of the majority of the last legislature to close the univer-sity of course all inch assertions anre for political effect and are foreign to tha truth the cry came from all parts of tha territory do not raie conr taxes and do not bond what could legislators do under the circumstances the only avenue left open was to practice economy in ap preprinting money for public tbiioonnee in the case of the university it was shown that a large per cent of the in attendance were tak-ing nothing core than a high school coarse there were leax than forty university students that i students taking a university or aca-demic course the others were pre-paratory students who ought to be preparing themselves in the common schools while the majority of the legisl-ators were willing to keep up an in-stituuttiioonn of higher instruction for the territory ahey were unwilling to keep up a hig school for the benefit of salt lake and they accordingly cut the appropriation down to the university has acrea of valuable land that ia boag sold and proceeds from thia land or tha in-terest on the same together with the out of the general to keep forty university students utah stands almost alone in mak-ing large out of the general revenue for the expenses of hr university other state universities have large endow-ments that keep up their expenses utah will have to stop her heavy appropriations for university pur-poses in the future in the past there have baan less than 1 per cent of the children of the territory attend the university and it has used about 15 per cant of the territorial revenue wherein lies the advantage to tha state of such a policy T mar jihn |