Show Take for what the Tribune has been reiterating daily for several weeks that the schools of Utah are under the of the Mormon It does not say what it means by this of which it speaks with such well feigned But it keeps calling upon the Gentiles of this city especially to the schools from the control of the Mormon The whole foundation of its cry in particular instance is that several of the members of the Board of Education of this city are It does not say since it cannot any in-i stance in which a Mormon has been preferred to a more com- Gentile in the public school but that is the inference that is what its readers here and elsewhere will suppose these frantic appeals to the Gentiles to and to the public The purpose is plain to hut not to a majority of the readers of the They do not know that concealed behind this cry for the redemption of the public schools is the intent to deny to Mormon teachers and and participation in the schools attended by their children and paid for by their The editor of the as we have does not cite any of un-American or He simply gives the impression that there is something though he does no say with the conduct Public schools system in this city and He says ever since the old Liberal party schools of this he schools have been by the What does he Tt h ty superintendent is a Mor y tho city school sup are Does this look like Mn Do not the mons have an and a better chance of W chosen for positions in lie school system of this rib than the Mormons If J why is It that so a m portion of the principals the teachers and other are non-Mor It is true that a short time while the old Liberal rule prevailed in this city the school motto was well known to he that no Mormon need That is what the editor of the Tribune conceives to the the schools ing them into the lowest whirlpools of political scrambles on questions of the employment of teachers and Yet this sort of of the schools is what the state of least It would set back the wheels of progress for It would drive the Mormons closer together in self It would make life in Utah less desirable than it now Let the schools go on precisely as at present so far as the methods of the school board are A fair field and no favors to all Thatis the rule at present and it ought not to be All probably most of toe sects and are represented in the teaching force of the Utah schools There is not the slightest occasion to revive the anti-religious bigotry which maintains that the adherents of any one particular church or party shall be denied the right to participate on equal terms with other other other tax and other patrons o f the public schools- |