Show I 1 spera BY j sy TEM teu tg D A plan pian wab was sugg suggested eted in atam allm alpass I 1 memorial jai jal i su submitted to con Cop grosS a te last cession session for a commIs commission commissio sio n 0 formed of eminent american aandy anang ug I 1 lish scholars and authors to confer cai riadh 1 jiw jig whether a reform in our language frfd would be attended with good or not J universally admitted that the sim simplification pila plia of ED english glish orthography sofiat a great desideratum As now arla aritte it is the study of a lifetime ilfe life time for anyone any ont one to learn to spell and pronounce our durmo ma ther tongue properly and in fact ey eveh even en after spending that length of time leiti study an infallible knowledge of jt llis ills Is not acquired A professor de vere the author of a laz lan 1 yook book book entitled studies in english says the difficulty Is insuperable as long asit have forty two distinct sounds in our defective alphabet provides us only with twenty three letters letie letic rs the sounds ds are obtain r ed fron the various sources which have contributed to form modern english the signs we derive directly from classical sources only without ss au the help that these sources might give ns us he bays says twenty three letters probably because he thinks all the sounds made with y c and x can be made wit VIt without libut them it is readily perceived that spill ing and pronunciation become difficult in proportion as there ato are letters that have several sounds and sounds that have several letters but if each letter eliad only one sound and each sound only aylond tene letter no one who understood the I 1 alphabet thoroughly could mis mii pro bounce a word which be lie saw or misspell M s one which he lib heard beard 1 the language of the sandwich islands is written upon this principle in other othe i r words it is phonetically written the islanders are an indolent people but they acquire reading and writing with great ease and for a people who have so re bently obtained ausnow arnow ledge of these arts have made cemarka biet biot progress their success is attributable to the fact that every sound bound in thir tl belr language is represented by bi a letter ihna and each letter by a distinct sound in their written communications an error in spelling Is rarely aarel y if ever met i with nith even among the most illiterate what ahat has been accomplished there among dinong a barbarous by tho adap i tion ofa phonetic alphabet speaks more conclusively in favor of a reform in our langu language ake than a thousand the theories orles ories if the hawaiian youth call cart learn to spell and pronounce their language correctly by the nid aid of a complete alphabet certainly the american youth with such suell aid can achieve similar results it is proposed propos Ld if the commission rei berred to above report favorably ra that the united states and great britain should agree by treaty that in five I 1 years jears from its date all public documents j and all copyright books in english in both countries shall shail be printed in the phonetic alphabet this his is it a subject worthy the attention of both nations and to com cow consummate emmate sueh fuch tuch much a result would be benn bean an incalculable benefit to the entire engl engi english ish speaking population of the world but will it JL bedone be done donehew how ever much we might desire that the legislators of both 1 nut hui ions ong animated by a wiach to bedrit their posterity world would take this tins matten matter in hand band und and carry it we ive do not wot nut per iper belve any ground ds sou son on which to base babe baa a hope that they so sti there I liere are ard too many interests to bere be reconciled conci led haary li abed tradition oR would cry out in thun thuD thunder duk dek tones tiles against it and parliament and congress could not resist the pret hure bure thad that would bo be brought to bear against them then but we the people orthis of this territory cai accomplish abis lla lis lia reform we ve can doso boso do so much more easily than any other people our population is Js diverse in its origin and free from binding traditions tradition s they would eagerly adopt any alphabet i would come como I 1 aided to them by its simplicity aud and the ease with which it could be learned jegl jact has been under cou con ide ration it has rested with great weight upon the mind mindol ol 01 president young and hla bia ini terest iu lu it has haa never flap flav flanged ged under I 1 his direction years ago characters were I 1 adopted matrices for them were imbor i ted anif anil a qt type was waa cast but whether from irom ignorance or design the matrices were very rudely made and did the characters great injustice ilie the lile difficulty in ili beautifully formed type of tilee aliese tile tiie e characters kept the proposed reform in abeyance until niu riu alJy it ilas lias boyi decided by the chau chain bellor cd lorand and the lioard oy of regene af the university of tue lue am the state of deseret lent young meeting with wilh them aud and taking greit t in ili the dicus biou to adapt the phonetic al phabe chabet and r recommend it to the people for or th their air adoption this alphabet contains forty three letters it has several more inore shade shado vowels in it than isthan were deemed necessary in what is known as the deseret alphabet these ab shado shade ade ado vowels are deemed superfluous by some and it was suggested that they should be rejected but finally it was thought advisable to adopt adoph tue the alphabet in ip en pitmans ditmans Pit mans characters are available avaU able aule this is the reason of their selection and not because they were thought to bo be the besu best characters for an alphabet the introduction of the system of phonetics inthe lathe is the great point to be now gained the form of the characters is a somewhat ae condary consideration by the introduction of lof the system of spelling by sound our children and foreigners will be relieved from a heavy tax upon their time and brains the portals of the temple of knowledge will be thrown open oren 0 n to all and the ease with chichan which an education can bo be received will be sur among other great benefits which will follow the introduction of this system will be uniformity of pronunciation nuncia tion I 1 this great reform lies iles in the pathway path way of our progress we have effected an entire revolution in religion and morals since the organ of gun gur guiChu church reh reb there is nothing to prevent our accod peishing this much needed reform in our mother tongue this business should be taken in hand by our school t trustees trus tees teeb und school teachers dt the territory y and anda be carried through with energy t L |