| Show EDUCATION the extraordinary difficult difficulties i es which had to be encountered in the first settlement of these valleys called forth all the energies powers and abilities of the men who were the early settlers and an amount of patient endurance under the most adverse circumstances on the part of the women that could be profitably emulated by their sisters of today to 6 day who have never known by experience that which had bad then to be endured end ared with every energy taxed with every power stretched to its utmost and with all that industry and unwavering perseverance could do to tb wrest an existence te nce nee from the soil but little vinae luie lule inie zau could aid ild be devoted to educational pur purposes lUr posas poses in those lays thea hersrud hers ind lud and iud sons ex e bu buby busy S laboring anci and tolling rolling Z to find food and shelter the na ave ive tive roots which were in s leanty scanty quantity on the bench with raw hide boiled and similar delicacies 1 being found scarcely sufficient for the former while a thin and worn out wagon cover was not nob protection enough against the biting storms and inclemency of the winter in the great basin the women folind found their cares multiplied lp lied while wh lle lie lacking the resources to lessen such cares so common elsewhere and every faculty was called into active exercise to make their families comfortable and nd aid the efforts of those who out of or doors were struggling for the good of all those those were not the times nor the tile circumstances cum stances in which much attention could be bestowed on education yet set the culture of the young was even then thought of and provided for every little colony had its schoolroom school room or schoolrooms school rooms where the hope of the toll toil worn pioneers their children received instruction I 1 we have been accused of a neglect of ot education and of a desire to have the bulk of the people remain in ignorance these accusations accusation with others equally false only require to be ventilated to be 1 known aqwa as base fabrications the zeal which we have ever manifested in n the progress of education refutes them and the efforts made under circumstances cire um stances which would have utterly disheartened heartened dis and demoralized any other people or community with whom we have ever made acquaintance to educate the young prove how closely the improvement of the mind and the imparting of instruction mingles with our faith and practice we have no design nor desire to meet and controvert such assertions but the great efforts made to promote education among the citizens of that which is now the territory of utah before it was a territory and when those citizens reside resided ct on one city block in the old oid old fort are strongly called up at the present time when education seems to have received an increased stimulus and is making rapidly progressive strides while it is gratifying to see this spirit so widespread wade wide spread it is desirable that it should be encouraged for there is is no question butche claims of existence and a strong desire on anthe the part of those not so richly endowed with goods and wealth to be on a level with their more successful neighbors where nearly all are arp and look upon each other as brethren make the incentive to acquire property a stronger one than that to acquire knowledge but there are not lacking larking abundant evidences of the pur suit of education under disadvantageous circumstances while the large number of flourishing common schools with those in which the higher branches of education are taught also well supported and a great many private schools show that our young men and maidens and our children of more tender years are being trained and educated to give the offspring of the industrious hardworking settlers of utah an educational status equal to that of of the children of wealth and opulence in older settled countries As summer glides along it would be well for competent persons to make their arral arrangements ige ments for opening special scientific classes that our youth of both sexes may have opportunities during the lengthened evenings of the fall and winter to improve themselves in I 1 various studies towards which their ancil inclinations nations s now direct them classes in and law have already been commenced and have progressed thus far favorably faivor ably thong w there th ere is no abt doubt w but many more mor will turn to those and kindred stud stude iles ijes I 1 wh the t tollof 0 11 0 o f summer and harvest is past devening evening TE classes in in surgery anatomy chemistry mathematics the languages and other advanced branches of education should also he be formed independent of the tuition imparted on these subjects in the principal schools for there are many of both sexes whose avocations keep them employed during the greater part pait of the day who are desirous of imp improving roving their education we hope the advice of president young given at last conference to send and procure the necessary apparatus for prosecuting these advanced studies has h been acted upon and that the coming coding fall and winter will nind find education in the higher branches of study receiving very general attention we have brethren fully competent to teach the exact sciences impart tion in the classics and modern languages and give to pupils a sound collegiate education their abilities a and nd knowledge should be called into requisition and as the curt and very often requisite phrase pay the printer has occasionally to be used we say in a similar spirit pay the teacher when you receive his services and obtain the benefits of his study and application in quiring acquiring ac the knowledge r which he be imparts to you T fl |
