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Show W A SALT LIKE CITr AMI CHCRCH WM t " SCHOOLS. "MS jjf Oob atteation has been called to Kiv an editorial in the Logan Journal jafsJIH of September 6th, which Is an at- Snf ' tempt at reply to some remarks in ffijiSf I the Deseret Xkws concerning the fisR establishment and patronago of the Wpff I schools established by the Church kJ: in Salt IaVe City. . iBMl I It is to be regretted that the writer 91$ in the Journal did not confine Him- sSl m eU to the points set forth in this 'SHI W ' paper and to a temperate discuEsior Ml f of the subject. He has attributed . 99f erntiments and arguments to the rXK( Deseret News which are not to be Jf found in our remarks, and appears, tBBB S for once, to have lost his temper. 4HH. Also heasumes a dictatorial attl- jJHkS tudeand announces, as though it wfti were the end of controversy, that Sff Salt Lake City is "the. last place at ' ifl&f'i which a central school for the Iat- iiHi I ter-dav Ssints should be erected." tfijHg Togo back to the beginning of LKHf this matter, the Logan Journal com- JHJrf menced what was looked upon by SHfj some of our leading men as an at- iflBi tack upon the college in this city. 'flHtl This Journal aid: 9H "'As for Church schools conducted HBf by La'er-dy Saints, Salt Lake is the BH last place they should thrive." iHBfi We took occasion to show that SJBi Salt Lake City had been chosen as SHf I a c P&cc where such schools shall 9HM "thrive," and that "the wisest men SEB among us" had been tho guide in B the choice. We u ill now add that W they do "thrive" In this city. The EBBS Lat&r-day Saints' College has more rttHf applications far admission than it JhS can accede to. Its faculty have no ImBI wish to draw pupils from Logan or BBS; from Provo, and the Journal is only MB: threshing toe air when it wildly ESSE does battle for those cities, as places BBS where love of pure principle ca n be BHHP intllled into the youthful mind BBS without tSe necessity of going to BBBfif Salt Lake. For, in our remarks of BHH9 AugutS7,wesaId: 8BjBJ "Wo admit at once, that both Provo HHI Kd I-opan have Church schools or BBBl aeademief in every way worthy ef the SHfl support of Litter-day Stints, and am- SK ply compstent to educate the young BBElf people in tboss citlc. Wo do not 9BC Jioirthat'there is any noceuity to IflEf Md children from either place to this :lflff i C':J far an ed ucatlon.-' HSl And furtliei. jHHjf "Rethink that Trovo and Logan j8Hf J arowoll supplied with Church schools, fBCJ worthy of the hlgbsit encomiums. 9VE Hut there are other places from wh ich HBEl parents may desire to send young fBHt ; people for advanced tuition, and we BB believe they- can send them to the Col- HB i lege in this city without fear of their NBS railing into the 'hols' which has dfv-l EfTHB terbsJ the Imagination of oar esteem-1 ofHW eJ contemporaries." fHJ Thu Journal courteously intimites 9L Wm that the Xnws Is "extremely stu- jBS riJ," bat graciously aJmits that it 9H may be "honest" Considering the SBt' rpatation of theyournof writer for BBL wisdom and other virtues, the BB News is extremely grateftl en the flBBS oo ban! and overwhelmingly llBBB crushed on the other. But little BIBBl investigation will show whether or BBT notthestupidityisours. Thajour. B9ME naf speaks of SBW "The vices which Salt lake so fing- 9fl I ly to) enjoys which tho Sews has SJH J actually begun to Condons by the IBB ; speetons argumestXhst their youth is 9HJ ' the beuer prepxrod to fight against BBtf eviL" JS9 3fow' as the News did not say H i hat yo"J" J' the bstter prepared to I Sh' agalmt evil by tho vices of H I SJt Ijlke CitTt "' anything like Hj J it, we can leave it to the readers to SB I decido where the stupidity exist, HJK r and alo how much "honesty" thaw BBf is in manufacturing a sentiment, H attributing it to anotlier source, and B Un attacking both the pretended Hg j source and the fabricated sentiment. BBJ Again, tlie Journal ijk H ? , !!Pe psragrsph of tho Xrws which BB "give" be'ow, fsborrowcif rum e-ery BBJ ? infidel and rogue and litnrtine that BBr ' ever lived to sednce an honest rar-nt BB to 8uffrh!s chUdren to know vice oh BB ; e Pea that It fortlfled them aiinnt J 'be viee." B Thc paragraph thus referred to, R ! which the Journal only gives In BBf part, is as follows: B i - T&B Influencs which has prevailed BK ' in the Lstter.iiy"sunu College in this city hss been of the very best. It H r I" agiinst immorality and vice la B3 every form, and it guards against B even the appearance of evil. Thecol- BJHt' ,eSe does not shut young people np in HK a bsndboxorisnorethe evils of the BX age. Bat it fortifies them In their Kf . -spirit and appeals to their reason and Bt better nstura.and thus guards them BBf, against wrong-doing." BB' We sjumit that there Is nothing BT in ihh paragraph, which can "hon- stly or without "extreme stupid- H iiy" be construed as the seutinient Er ofauy "infilcl," or "rogue," or K: "iibertin-" that ever lived. D Tlie Jiuriaf goes on to insinuate Kg' thal the "ews takes the ground H tllat "to m'e the yoath strong Jk against evil and vice it is necexsarv Hs' that youth should be brought in BjK dslly contact with these great HP " human weaknesses aid errors," Hip which is entirely incorrect, as the B . Xews took no such position. H' " We lefe the vituperations, mis- Wm ststemenU and false deductions of Bjpi the Journal article, and proceed to BX r;iatethepolntsmadelnourarticle H on Ue suiject of Church schools. Hsj Logan and Provo are well supplied BE with such schools. Other placesare BH not.- There Is a Latter-day SalnU' Bg College in thi city, established BE ""der Ue direction of the Preslden- BCf cy of the Church and the Board of Jf "" EducaUon of the Stake. Students 9. A may come to it and be under efD- Bfl 5 cient watch care as to their conduct BR - ' as well as to their education. A Hf Central College is likely to be estab- "Dea in this city, to which gradu- B , ats 'ram Seminaries and Acade- Wm , miesino'her parts of the Territory P m,y come and finish their cdura- ii tu?- The evils existing in this I f dt3 were exaggerated in the Jour. !'l nal editorial to which reference - f was made. It U not wise to ampUfy ', anything UU it reaches the Une of , 1 fiction. ljJI Silt Lake is had enough, but its Hi "!" are, thank G3J, the excepUon. m TheroIjasgoIsicieiyhereandas W ""Piritascaabefoundevenln F " " -ri:,ny of the Log.n ournoZ h, Itlsgood not to be too rashand 1 1 4 wise not to be too captious. We do not profess to be as "familiar wUtl the wickedness of Salt Lake" as the Journal writer Hi '" to 1, and therefore W Ye my pardoned, perhaps, for speaking of It, better iide. And our respect for the Judgment of the wise men in Israel who have decided decid-ed that Salt Lake is Oic place for a Central school for children of the Latter-day Saints is not decreased, nor has our admiration tor the pro-found pro-found Judgment, brilliant thought! and Journalistic courtesy of the editor of the Journal increased, through reading the effusion which we have hero given brief consideration. |