Show COUNCIL BLUFFS iowa y ajl april st ath b 1877 ri ilo amt I 1 waito editor de deseret TI wic wie condition of aqil ia id U utah tah bay nay hyi hyl ng been much aenied by those wh so d u ty j t h has as been to be better int ini in i formed on the subject I 1 invite those who feel any buy interest inthe in the matter to carefully examine the following statement state trient it should require requite no argument to cori convince vincil the reflecting that as most of the states have had much more time fewer drawbacks and greater facilities than tham the territory of utah to perfect school systems and to accumulate school funds their people should be far in advance of those of utah in genera intelligence and in the primary branches of education the following co between the condition of edu education c at on in utah and in an aw average portion of the united states sils ia made up from the educational Ite report port of the interior department of the united states government for the school year 1875 1975 76 although utah might more justly be compared with her sister territories ri tories she is so nearly in the front with the older states of the union in intellectual culture that the former are not included in the following comparison from the education report the average duration of school days in utah in the years 76 was in the fol following towing twenty states alabama florida indiana iowa kansas kentucky maine michigan minnesota missouri nebraska new hapat HanaT hampshire shire north carolina olegon oregon south carolina tennessee texas vermont virginia and west virginia the average duration du of school days was only for the same period the highest was avas in michigan gan days two less than in utah the lowest was in north carolina fifty days ninety less than fn an utah 0 only ny twelve of the twenty states reported both a permanent school fund and the annual expense per capita of these school populations these are florida Indi indiana anar anay iowa I 1 kansas maine michigan minnesota nebraska 2 new fire I 1 vermont virginia and ginia these twelver states have an aggregate annual income from froia permanent school funds fundy oe ills 1622 cenk a fraction over 55 cents per capita of their school population while utah has no permanent school fund and has hob hot at yet rd received evind one obe dollar from the public lands appropriated to school ivr pur puri j poses within her limits r the average expenditure per i capita in these twelve states was la against in utah the was In nebraska the lowest in virginia only ten of the above twelve states florida indiana kansas maine michigan michl Michi gani gany minnesota new hampshire vermont virglnia virginia and west virginia reported the average daily attendance of their school population which was forty per cent against thirty eight per cent in utah i e these ten states sent an average of forty out of each hundred of bf their school population to i days an n the jear year that being the average duration of bf their school days while utah sent bent thirty eight out of ot each hundred of her school population io fo school days in the year the following comparison be tweed the average illiteracy of the united states and that of utah is made up from the compendium of the ninth or ok last census ali all the tho territories except utah are included with the states in this statement of the population of the united states over ten years of age agel 29 29 9 per cent could not read aud and per cent who could read could not write a total average miter illiteracy cy of nearly sixteen persons in each 10 loo 0 of population of the population of utah over ten years of age per er cent could not read and percent who could read rea d could not write an average total illiteracy of eight and a half persons in each of population the figures of the census report also show that utah compares quite favorably in this respect with the enlightened eid eld new now england states their average illiteracy being but three per cent less the of July 1877 will be the soth anniversary af the arrival of the pioneers in great sait salt lake valley under circumstances of bf extreme r destitution and hardship this was waa the first place wife whom iley they found 0 peace ea e and rest after having b been driven from their homes in illinois duri durin during the nt first twenty of these thirty years co communication with thy the outside world j was slow and e expensive lexi except ept by telegraph th the fhe laiter pait part time aime during this thia period tha desert had bad to be redeemed from its unfruitful condition by cultivation and irrigation the latter involving a vast amount of labor in constructing ting water channels unknown to pioneers in settling most other ten years of this thia time 1 these isolated colonists were compelled to contend with myriads of migratory insects for scanty means of subsistence for twenty years with bu but little assistance from the genera government they bora borg bora the bourden of feeding friend friendly fy indians and of fighting thel aggressive and hostile during his this period of almost su effora effort lo 10 overcome the complicated daill difficulties atles of f their situ situation atio atlo D m material ater lail progress wo wa slow and in the struggle for existence edu education was of bf necessity a secondary considers eon con sidera tion since the completion of the the great continental railia railway y in 1569 1869 utah has ahad had a rapid development I 1 and public instruction hab haa received its due of attention ut ht facts prave the I 1 bever blever forgot their duty to tilo the tho rising generation under the most trying ciro circum amian stan atan ces they with some ibison reason P suspect u they thes were not marching on to thein great destiny if it and abuse were toe too generally succeeded by even just corm corn emendation men dation the foregoing facts show that their efforts to delop intellectual culture under difficult ties aret are so far without a parallel in the history of the settlement of the continent JAMES A LITTLE opposition 1 f r t ddn rin I 1 1 I I 1 3 I 1 I 1 march U 1877 I 1 editor decre deete deseret deere I 1 news I 1 left utah may 6 1876 and canle came to denmark in company with elder 0 N liljenquist I 1 have since nce uce been traveling through bor abd atad faaland La aland fass ter I 1 man aa fro island and fifo I 1 island 8 land laud T X have held a a good maby many m meetings and visited many pf af my relations oita and friend friends 04 I 1 am UM generally kindly treated on borre borren n 1 holm the tho p people eople are very hospit hospitable a alj and nd often seemingly y a r nemy newy awakened desire to know tile the principles gos pei seven persons haye been baptized thi this swinter win ter thes the saints al at here shereF manifest a it great desire to emigrate but t they T are 1 ink ing for hep beill bep their thein fri tilds da in utah Z i 1 Ae e gl Geathe entile fi rles ries avet aver noted themselves to horii us th us at a marmer farmer far bohse at tt a public meeting there were present about ninety persons we hd hid a lively meeting one priest got sick alck and left at last uno ono one got up preach to against ii us bul but it had no effect on the congregation last dight two of them met ua us again in a public meeting threatening ellb g jo llo break up tb ohp p same salue sa me but we wb in I 1 roget get through all JJ hught right A afler I 1 me they got madana it hoy would never conle come again to a mormon meet bg there are ome some faithful faith faitt iru ird fud fuT Elder eider sn denmark with eldeir eider elder N lileen quist atthe at tile tiie head S fatherly and k kind and elvea good to saints and sin pers the tho akan mavian star is fhil off 7 light arill arili newa news on acca i bleill a health I 1 fitall i return to utah with the first emigration gr atlon of balnis saints from denmark den Deu murk mads mada fonk at narca narea arca hud his foot pulled oft ott yesterday by a rope on board the new steamer arran 0 on n its first trip to copenhagen it was WS built at malmo yours truly JE jess JENS TS reller KELI meli ER the boston medical journal cites the spectator of may 24 1712 that there was at that time a greet greel glass mania then the glass maniacs were green now they are blue paul morphy the famous ches clies la Is said to have become sud kud suddenly denly donly and thoroughly di disgusted with before the civil wa war and has nol not bia sla played at it buo bul but hut has haa led an idie idle idi idl emorose morose life aboul about kl a year ago he hegab hegau to 1 lose his mental control and now is teai leai dobe be 1 hopelessly insane in iu a 1 1 ew Orleans 11 eanls asylum i |