Show A OF OPINION the following communication differing from the views expressed in a recent issue of tills THE JOURNAL is cheerfully given space EDITOR or tn antt ir JOU a A L I 1 cannot agree with you when you 2 say a y that an educational requirement f for voters might work mork an all ingui injustice tice on any one I 1 believe uch such a measure would be beneficial not only to the state but to the cause of education with our iree free schools scho academies and Q colleges every mm man and woman to receive at least a common school education I 1 alwill will even go farther and say that if only those possessing a college education were allowed to hold responsible positions it would mould benefit the statland state and aalthe all alie people and it would fill fi I 1 I 1 our colleges with ambitious young men and women betit hut a man who cannot notreab read the constitution of the state ought not be allowed to vote intelligence more inore than age should be a necessary qualification and matuie judge ment rather than matuie age should entitle a man or m woman onion to vote I 1 do not think our best citizens ronld be injured by such a iou in our laws AMERICA we do expect all our readers to ame agree with us it would be very strange if they should but we are still of the opinion that the california amendment requiring voters to be able to read the constitution ution is unjust there was an effort made to have such a clause inserted in the constitution of utah but it failed of course it was a good goad motive which inspired the attempt it was intended to raise the standard of popular intelligence if men and women must ba haap a rudimentary english education the XA are raen ra en to the arll privileges I 1 of f citizenship t L lp they 1 will 11 be very apt to acquire it but in many instances such a requirement would wellan injustice upon good citizens heavy taxpayers tax payers and public spirited men it is not always the educated man who is the man of judgment it is not the colle college e graduate as a rule who lays the foundation of the state it is not the scholar who opens up the wealth of a new country and make it possible for schools and colleges to exist some of the aa biggest gest fools in the world are hiding behind diplomas some of the grandest grande st men in the west have never had the opportunity of receiving even the rudiments sofa of a common school education but they have helped make it possible for all who come after them until there is no excuse for ignorance in the arsi rising generation we believe in education we believe in raising the standard of citizenship but not at the expense of a single sin le unfortunate pioneer 1 who pays his taxes and has his I 1 rights A collegiate education i does not make a man it develops I 1 that which is in bi him bim m ir if he be has good qualities it makes them better if bad it makes him bimi the keener rascal some of our brightest men are bollei e bred and kernp of our bri brightest 0 latest men are not some of our greatest lawyers are graduates and some are arc not some of our 4 greatest statesmen have had the polish and sonie some have not ozcar oscar wilde is college bred red but shiely no greater poet than burns who was not david dudley field the most learned american lawyer and his brother stephen Step lien the oldest justice on the supreme bench of tho the united states are not graduates sumner was the bet ter scholar but lincoln the greater statesman elihue burritt was one of the most profound men our country ever produced yet was denied the advantages of collegiate training bunyan banyan was a gypsy paine a tramp and the world is full of such examples some have turned their natural energies and abilities in the direction of acqua acqui acquiring ring knowledge some in the direction of acquiring wealth others in open opening iii up new lands many at the expense of every opportunity for an education one of the most leaded graduates who ever undertook the practice of law in salt lake city with diplomas from ann arb arbor or and and harvard law schools has been there nine or ten years in obscurity ity while men like varian dickson and williams without diplomas have reached the top notch of the profession and yet they i would have climbed up easier with the mental discipline of a college course some of our most useful citizens are not graduates or of any save the school of experience C E allen alien with all his diplomas is not a match for homebred home bome bred self taught B H roberts as a talker writer or man allen alien is a notorious blatherskite whose conduct in the territorial legislature made hin him I 1 the laughing stock even of his own party roberts in the constitutional convention comin commanded the admiration and respect even of bi his political opponents but in this there is no arguien argument 0 t against a college education for without it allen alien would be nothing and with it roberts would be saved much hard work all through life the pioneers of california and of utah would not be eligible to office under our correspondents tule rule therefore we say it would not be fair or just for young americans to deprive men of th their air franchise when nature endowed them with a aa much brains as good judgment a as clear conception of the duties of citizenship but from whom circumstance cum stance withheld with held the tuni ties of obtaining an education |