Show THE SCHOOL ELECTION I The wrangle at the school meeting in one of our ourI I wards on Wednesday night ought to put every t I American vand nd every Gentile in the city the alert I The Tho bishop that said he thought it would be a great I misfortune to have a partisan school board did not j j tell that was in his mind What he lie wants is to have the church control the schools That has been te great q desire of the tho Mormon i church ever since state- state hood d. d The church is really in control of the sch schools ch now greatly to their detriment It has hasa a majority of the board and has one or two Gentile sycophants to back bach everything it wants done and the schools are suffering because of that kind of rule nile It surel surely ought if possible to be overthrown for the lI ubIe reason that everything that is Mormon i in the city bit whether it be the school board or the city coun coun- cil or the legislature has to be forever under the surveillance of the first presidency and apostles of the 1 Mormon i. church Neither of those have the capacity to run the public schools of this city in a mo modern ern way Worse than that they have no desire to have first class American schools If they had their way they would reduce the schools back to what they were prior to 1899 when the they were a reproach to the tho city Their power ought to be shaken off When they talk partisan non what they mean is that the schools sh should uld be taken out of politics entirely and put in the hands of the church The church had them for forty years and the condition they were wei e in when Gentiles t took ok hold has been a standing reproach ever since There is no high priest in the Mormon i church who has an any special interest in the public schools beyond l. l the e amount that the teachers will nill pay them in ing Most lost of them are chumps If their hearts were ever so open pen they have not the brain capacity to handle the subject which they have never given any attention to and if 11 possible on Tuesday next there should be such a uniting of forces against them as aswill aswill aswill will insure the continuance of good schools for the children of Mormon i and Gentile alike The public school was established with the object of having one central institution to which the child could come and h have ve an equal show to obtain the rudiments of an English education every child without reg regard to the religion or politics polities of its parents and the tho public publio schools of this city need restoring to that basis |