Show 1190 1 I 1 b I 1 FAIRVIEW W san pete peto Co lihty april alst isu editor deseree news T the lied b brief r 1 ef parac paragraph raph an in the he weekly NEWS of the loth last respecting the chango of post masters in this place conveys only a very slight alight idea or of the feelings among us respecting it arid tile tuie causes which have havo led to it this is owing chiefly to the ulo uio desty dosty of the writer of the paragraph who being personally concerned coneg med in 1 it i ll 11 did not feel at liberty to enter into in to full particulars rs as they are connected with the doings of the ring may not prove provo uninteresting te to sour your sa readers the late postmaster post master held the office for a number of years at arf art average yearly salary which would not keep a deputy marshal marshai judging flom the they made here one quarter the time in iu cigars let iet alone beer and perhaps something not quite so small the office of ilce tice begins to look up tind and of course is an object to outsiders in addition the late incumbent is an outspoken and has haa told tol the dt truth so doing he has brought himself the spite or of one iu in particular and ot of several in general who have apos apo from the aith faith they pro professed ed when they arrived in these valleys whether aided hither by the perpetual emigration fund ar a r they came by tho the golden stale ery ely Y the way immor says rays on of these at least camo canao that way ways by the skin akin of his teeth having under ther the cloak of mormonism endeavored to swindle various california merchants out of sundry wagon loads of merchandise which were stop ped in the transit and the freight was returned to the rightful owners by judicial authority to return retura however to the object of this th iscom corn muhl mu hi cation catlon this post masten master being in the church was of course obnoxious to such per pere sons asi asi have described and rend his official decapitation was resolved upon a petition petit lori iori was concocted asking for his lils removal and it re rc calved thirteen signatures eight residents of i the tho town three of whoa whom are miners three non rest dent dents one supposed to be a fictitious name and one a palpable forgery liw lim waw this petition presented presenta mi the special agent P r 0 department and receiving his sanction was wal fon non forwarded warded to the department at washington and was successful in causing mr San Sander dersons sons sona removal and the appointment of the nominee of five citizens of the town entitled to move in the matter the other citizens numbering nearly sent counter petition or rather remonstrance ou against the removal of the office to the extreme southwest south west corner of the town but they were not powerful enough the request of five connected with a ring was sufficient to overpower the request of ef nearly independent citizens the flat fiat had gone forth and our post officer was removed to as inconvenient a part apart of the town as proportionately speak f ing the I 1 location of yours in the southwest south west corner of the athward ath ward would be to the citizens of salt lake city twe the chief reason given to toi the signers to the remonstrance ford nor the removal of mr nin sanderson was that the office was open to td all comers and it was insinuated that mr nir S was not living in harmony with the laws of the land possibly it was expected that a man in this condition with the natural consequences quen ces viz a numerous family would devote all ali his time costay to staying in an office with a remuneration of something less than 10 per year bub but the best of the notion is that the man appointed was not a citizen of the 17 8 and the special agent cf the P 0 department kne knew vr this for when mr sanderson wrote to him asking as king if he should be justified in in t turning urn I 1 ng over U S property to one not a effii citizen zen he rep replies iles lieg 11 strictly speaking no one not a citi citizen en of 61 f the LT S should should hold any office under the government of the 8 11 bub but if thi this s rule was strictly adhered to it would cut P MS mys in utah utah I 1 care nothing for a mans religious opi opinions anions I 1 never ask the question whether he is a mormon or methodist or pagan I 1 have only asked the question Is he competent is lie he honesty honest and IA aishe he living in harmony with with the laws of ort oft th haland aland you will see from this that the trouble really is as it is expressed express dd not li harmony ac now one would think that any one whom the special agent judged was not 1411 ying living in harmony ac would have had no weight with the special special agent P 0 department yet strange to say the prime mover in althis matter the one by whose agency mr S was removed is more in poly polygamy garny than any other mau man at present in this town he has had two children born to him this year by two different women and rumor says that another of his four wives may possibly pbs sibly bear him another one one of offis his bis wives is the daughter of a man whose name is signed to the petition of thirteen thus you may geo that the ring amm ane not idle even here while lethey they assert that the difficulty in utah is fi federal authority vs theocracy we claim that in the case use in point wo we are strictly speaking upholders of U S laws a against those who support men who are in what they term lascivious as habitation cohabitation co there can be no doubt that the laws odthe of the US U S are opposed to the foisting upon the people TO bf f aliens as ag its officers ersa as the territorial laws are ahe anfor bidding sexual intercourse between those who do not regard themselves as husband and wife and if mr sanderson has been camplain complained ed of as not living in harmony with the laws of the landoldt landl land it dt follows as a matter of course that the complainant nant must eon bon consider sider that any one living with more than one wo manas bya nas his wife and raising children by them must bo be equally guilty with wj th mr yar S we llavat reen seen liow how ready certain officials were to try to ell eli enforce loreo territorial laws ji I lascivious cohabitation habl babl tation when one of the ring was not affected thereby now they have havea a splendid opportunity of showing their thel r sincerity 1 I carity the man whose name is first on the petition asking for mr sanderson Sander sanden sons sona 14 removal is either in poleg polygamy ailias or has been of lascivious ro habitation or both he is not LL aMul amol mu aloi ll lle jle si lias been cut olt off from the cia ClA church and as according to the special M mail I 1 agents letter there irre only three sects secta qualified for fori P ahe must be ba either eithern a methodist nieth dieth odist or a pagan I 1 we wait patiently to seethe beetho see bee the tho result r orthis facts res acting pectin him now mr editor T think I 1 havo have laid your readers this matter as fully as it eail ean can bej bei it it be a question of polygamy vs monogamy desay we say that our side wins the greatest poly pois polygamist adist in our town opposes us he ae is backed by four persons we pres present erit brit a remonstrance signed by monogamy ests yet a man marr who has hag strictly speaking no boright right to an office under the U S government 11 is appointed because he is supported by one who lives ilves less in harmony with the tha laws of the land than any other citizen of fairview butts but Is it not confession of weak nesb ne there gould rould not be many appointed in lutah utah if the laws were strictly speaking enforced br in iry other words worda there ther elare ezare are not among the nineteen hundred odd votes cast at the late territorial election in opposition to tile the honorable george Q cannon men merr of sufficient intelligence and sufficiently qualified to tp fill the office cf PMs in utah and the de department apartment part ment is compelled to appoint ol 01 n t aliens for that purpose tapp the r real a 1 trouble is not strictly speaking a violation of the laoj but the ohe vs acting on the square jac IVE I VE ssi asi ap ASA N T serl seri schools 0 ois ana nna teachers SALT nake LAKE CITY april 1874 bailor deseret leuw jauw dear sir bir S ir education and schools have been treated upon in your gol goi col columns and those of others by various country corres correspondents at dlf din erent lerent ti times ea in fact it appears appeals that i they hey are the all absorbing and favorite themes for writing upon and possess the won wonderful denral derral quality qualify of never wearing out now kow without having the inclination at the present time to condemn or extol I 1 would just like t to 0 take lite a glimpse at what it really requires to make a good school corli working ink ing system in a community in the first place it requires educated men 0 or r women for or trustees persons who are large and liberal yet withal careful frugal and good nian financiers flanc fian lers ciers parties who are esteemed and respected by those among whom they live should le kie called to fill these posts post that when duty and necessity require them theato to call upon the people for means for the purpose of building school houses furnishing them AC they would meet with atha a hearty res Tes response ye yea all this and more should the men or women be bb upon whom in a great measure the proper develop me ment nt of the minds and In intellectual tellei faculties of our children depends to such individuals it 1 is 8 scare scarcely e necessary to say that a properly furnished schoolhouse school house is an absolute requisite it ift is not an exaggerated picture to draw when it Is ia assert asserted iQ d that it is ia justus satisfactory to see bee a man standing in the tha midst of a forty acre field with seed for the same and a hand rake to scratch it in with as to be witnesses of that that which we very often are ie i e an indica vidual superintending super intending the education of from tram sixty to a hundred children with four bleak hieak wails walls staring at him nothing to help heip him in irl his weary v work vork not an aid 0 to o make the imparting of knowledge eay easy under such circumstances does learning soon become a task 12 true a as 4 there may be one of the farr fari farmers nells neils aeres acres beeter deeter oy by nature to 10 receive the seed and yield an n increase e so also aiso may one of those immortal become bright and intelligent under the rude course or of tuition to which they are au subjected but what becomes of the mahs an uncultivated and desert here hero and there a few good seeds m may y struggle to show themselves but they are immediately smothered by the superabundance of weeds which cluster around next a good teacher is an indispensable pe pen nabie sable sabie item we might do awtry awny wl wah h tl a jow fow of the Jux luxuries uries urles of the schoolroom chool room but a good tem tew teacher dier aler besides being a luxury is too much of a necessity to admit of being dispensed pen sed with A good teacher is not merely an educated pedagogue such a being is not capable of properly the of any YO youthful uth ful fui scions of del dei deity delty tyr bernust we must have a teacher who is a judge of human nature not one who possesses se s a rigid course of training to which each and all must bow the knee bend to or be broken the way to possess such a teacher which lamny in any of our setti settlements cements would sheia a boon is to en not often will a I 1 person j who isanthe habit of travel ing in lil the settlements settlement si find the same teacher two or three consecutive seasons occupying the schoolroom not very often let him venture the query where is mr so and so oh he is in the canyon or orthe the field why did he not like school teaching yes well why did he leave etwas it was ke he not a good teacher yes he be was pretty good but the person we have now is a great deal cheaper 11 s he as good a teacher well I 1 dont think he is how is ia I 1 it t ho he can afford to teach so BO much cheaper than mr so and so well you see he much of anything to do so bo when he offered to take the school so much cheaper milli than we were paying the other we let him have it il 11 mr editor so long as bids are taken for teaching school and the position is given to the lowest responsible bidders as to cow herds like so long will we have an inefficient corps of common school teachers in the settlements respectfully yours SLEEPER sleep FR |