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Show is what we might call colored. .It carries the inference infer-ence that its report was founded on a careful investigation in-vestigation of affairs at Logan and on data obtained from outside States. . - . . Now, it never made any careful Investigation at Logan, and it suppressed the most important data from other States. Those two facts awakena suspicion suspi-cion that the committee and 'ts report are both biased, and that the desire to precipitate the calling of an extra session of the Legislature is, at least in part, due to a desire to have something done before all the fadts can be made clear to the public. There is no rush about this business. - Let us have all the facts and come to a sensible conclusion if we can, on the facts. ' ' . ' Bnt Uncle Booth is not - a' safe guide in this business. He means to be dead honest, but he is of a confiding nature and sometimes is misled through friendship. And then we suspect that, deep down, be has a contempt for an educated farmer, and believes be-lieves that the "man with the hoe" is the proper emblem for the boy that would be a farmer, and that. if one could get his confidence he would confess con-fess that he had always -been obliged to hoe his, own row, and that, in a country like this, any boy can do the same if he has but the energy to try and the persistence to keep trying. ; UNCLE BOOTH ON THE MERGER. ' We. notice that Uncle John Booth o? Provo is oat in a communication recommending the merging of the Agricultural college with the university.- We ' rather expected that he would, because, while a very matter-of-fact man, the Judge is, nevertheless, an impulsive man, and so sometimes jumps at his facts. When loaded he is like an old-fashioned Allen re-volver re-volver all his barrels are liable to go off at the eame time. - In his communication some of his statements' of facts, while most pronounced, are, nevertheless, founded on hearsay only, as, we suspect, he would -f acknowledge if pinned down to a rigorous cross-examination. cross-examination. ' - Still, he may be right. We do not know that he is not, but we do know that he does not know that , he is. That is the point, hence we hold that public opinion should be suspended until the real facts are brought out The statement cf Got, Ouiler'i subcommittee |
