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Show m : church schools and district H SCHOOLS. H K. Wn are iufornied that in some of B the country school districts there H 1 is either opposition or negligence in i relation lo tiio district schools. If V i I tLLs is bo It is wrong, and the wrong H ' should ba remedied at once. It urobibly arises from a niisunjer- ! standing. The establishment of schools un- H f tier the direction of the Church was H list intended to interfere with H s;h-oLs .regulated by law. The H Church schools were designed to be H chiefly high schools, into which H ' yoaas reoplo who bad received H j instruction in the rudiments could H bo drafted, and receive a higher B l education which would include 1 I religious training. H Of coarse, if circmustinces per- H mitted, it would be better if the H . children of the Litter-Joy Saints H could attend schools from the begin- H ning iu ublcli the doctrines and H sprint and ordinances of the gospel H arc tausbt.Hutunderthelawsofthe H Territory a general tax is levied for H the support of district school?, and H thcs3 must be open to the children H i of persons not of our laith as well as H I of those who are members of the H ' Church. They are and must of 1 necessity bs common schools. Those who pay the taxes must receive the t beuiflt of the taxes, no matter what j may bo their religion or lack of religion. Therefore no particular B creed or tenets can be legally taught H in the district school?. B But the children of each donomi- H nation can be taught religion in the H I Sunday Schools, liy private instruc- H tion, and bysuch other means and H meiuois as each church provides, H and this should be done so as not to H interfere wilh the district schools in H any ., Morality may and we le!leve H j i M ongh to be taught in all schools, H isSjL' whether they be sscular or religious. H H But 'this need not involve any H jH Iarticu!ar tenet or theological H B dogma. Right and wrong and the H -M I necessity of choosing good and re- HB , fraining from evil, from a purely BB moral stanJpoint, should in our HHJHH opinion form part of the instruc- HB tioa ia every school in the Terri- IB tory. BV Tho Church school', at present at H jS least, are intended to be of a grade H " V between the di-txici schools and the 1 1 . University or College Institutions. They are to be established wherever practicable, so as not to come in tho J j way of the maintenance of thedis- 1 tnct schools. And if anyone H f imagines to the contrary he has H made a mistake. H It is very important that local Lssssssssfl ' taxes In tho respective districts, for Ithe maiutcnance of a school or schools in each district, where it has not already been attended to, shall be at' once assessed. If a district fg school is not maintained in S any particular -district for at jj least twenty weeks during the school year preceding unless it is a newly formed dl-trict it will not t i receive its apportionment of the Territorial school tax for the year. 1 Thu, the property holders will have i laid the tax but they will have no return?, their proportion of the school meneys will go to help those districts that have complied with mmm ' the law. yK ' Another thing to be remembered is this! All local special taxes for -, the maintenance of a district school HB ' aust be levied In the district before KH the 3lst of December in each year, HV, j nd within ten days alter such levy H K '' ccniCed returns of Uie percent. H Ka , i levied must bo certified to the H K county cluk and the county as. H B sessor. H Jt " I:a3 been opposition to the district schools, whether In the H B fonn of resL-tance to a necessary V. i ocai tSj or because such schools H tim are secular and religion cannot be H j 9 taught therein, or becauM Church HH 9 FJhoolsare esuiblished near by or 9 coatempIaU-d, this opposition ought HH 9 to withdrawn in view of the facU 9B 9 we have here presented. 9H ) SclioalhuUses of sufllcient capaci- H M 'J"t with the proper appurtenances 99 anJ conveniences, ought to be found 99 la all the school districts of this 99 M Territory. Where they do not ex- 9 . that Is a mark of lack of pro- .m gress and rtfinemenL The old I f milwiagsaJefjuate for by-gone days f MM J 3r" not raited for present "require- W ments, and ourfriends should be up 91 if ' Ui the Umts.and see to it that every J v, i necessary facility for the educa- 9l . Uon f the young is provided. They 9J . ' j should rather i filled with emula- 91 I 'on, and desirous of having just as B ) zxxi buiUings and schooisasany IB or their neighbor, than to be careless care-less or obitnietlva or niggardly in relation to this important matter. Tbe district schools should be J i aijorteJ aai uacouraged for . the yoaag children, religious J tuition li-jn,; provided for them f in uie primirlea, and the I Sunday Schools, and by such other arrangements as can be made suitable suit-able and convenient, without bin-, bin-, tiering the district schools. And ( ; froJl these the older and advanced j ' V"PiU cai -e placed In the Church I i schools, where tucy can receive further religious as well as secular ' ' I training, and thus tbe lurpose in . V viev "!' lw achieved, harmonv j l wl11 Prevail ltn eea all branches of I k ' the educational system, and Ignor- . J anc" m'H no: be allowed to hold j snraJ" 'n any art of the Territory. |