| Show 1 i9 WilY AHUSI mr riuiur f t r V 1 Irofessor Stewart Is correct In say 11 1 It 510 Ins that the schools of Utah today iif J 1 are something to be proud of and also mJ U1 that the maintenance of orb excellent 1 1J J s publlo school system clomps Ions been 1 the aim of the people of Utah since the t h das of the first settlements In these tJ UJ11 valleys No matter what the circumstances 05 t ie mJI 1 stances of the people were whother t i It starvation stared them In 1M face or fJI r rl 1 Indians threatened to blot thorn out cso4 t Jj whatever were the ups nod down Incidental il i In-cidental to the plantht of civilization 11fi t nnd the emblem of liberty In this Intermountain li 0 ilg Inter-mountain region the best possible ella iNSl ji ratIon ot time Lhlldren Wa among the 4f nest concerns of the people No matter i I what Is J said to the contrary by those t IiI i who seem to regard It as their peculiar i 1 fl mission to belittle the works of the i 1lonecrs Impartial history Mill give a verdict In accordance with truth In the tlil 01110010 1 I 1 matter i In the meantime It may be well to 1014 point out that It would be 1 just as gent gen-t erouB and just no much la accordanCe i tb1ei5i v 1th1 facts to ridicule the first colonial t4I h t ° 53 1 I settlers In America on account of their I iijl 1 primitive efforts In the direction of school and literature In verse and j1iTj h prose because these er below the l 1 f modern standard as It Is I to Insist that ktJ f the early educational facilities of Utah were wretched because the present iiWi ones ore better In many respects The cases are very nearly parallel In both It1hi1 the question was of laying the foundation lrnt founda-tion for a future structure and while I 1 doing so to wield the trowel with one Iio K hand and the sword with the other Iifi ol I figuratively speaking The State of If Utah like tho Temple of Nehemlah was built In time 01 trouble Q 61 r1 t 1 The people here are patient and longsuffering ntJf1 long-suffering hut It Is difficult to see how d Ni continual sneers and vlliucatlon or Iho kJ noble PIoneer and their Immediate j 1 i1 < 1 descendnnts en old In maintaining J good will and cordiality between the s MIt different classes of people believed tabs i io ilhh essential for the best Interests of all |
