Show CRIME AND EDUCATION wn WE have on several occasions offered proofs of the fallacy of the commonly accepted theory th eory that education la in a cure for crime or of c course louree we use the word education in its ita popular sense bense sIgnifying intellectual culture we have taken the ground that the learning obtained in the schools is not an antidote to vice and that the worst of criminals are the educated rogues mere intellectual acquirements acquire ments do not necessarily affect the moral and spiritual nature for good and when the disposition is evil the greater the knowledge knowledg ethe the stronger the power to do evil statistics of prison life in the united states will show that it Is ia not the illiterate who commit the greatest crimes and that the proportion of persons who can read and right is greater greaten than of those who are unlettered A french report recently published gives evidence in the same direction according to the figures pre rented tented cf persons of the class wholly illiterate in that country furnish five criminals of the class able to read and write furnish six criminal criminals of the class favored with superior instruction inore lnore more than fifteen crim criminals inala the conclusion drawn Is ia that th atthe ithe increase of crime is in direct ratio with the amount of instruction re c edlfin that at in the depa departments in w which instruction 9 t ruction is most disseminated 21 crime Is ia greatly more prevalent in other words that morality Is ia in ic inverse ratio with instruction lastly that relapse into crime is much greater among the instructed than the non instructed portion of the community the trouble troubie is that the rising generation is not really educated but only taught intellectually moral and spiritual training is greatly neglected Mathe mathematics mauce geography grammar or physics will not cultivate the moral faculties or develop the spiritual nature of the pupil god is banished from the common school roam and religion is interdict ted the state takes the teaching of children out of the hands of the church and therefore the whole system of education is secularized while there are so BO many diverse religions and so many people who are opposed 9 to religious religions societies altogether it cannot be very well ordered differently the protestant does not want his children educated in catholic tenets the catholic will not suffer his children to imbibe protestantism if he can help it the jew does not wish his children to become christians and the infidel objects to his children being taught any creed whatever the consequence quen cels celb is that the unbelievers believers un have their way and the pupils jn in the public schools receive little if any moral instruction and no religious training at all who can wonder that the spirit of the age leads to skepticism when it is considered that the juvenile mind is left untutored in r religions precepts and who can reasonably expect that education will prevent crime when morality and religion form no part of common school tuition we fear that unless some somo better system of education is adopted among the latter day saints their children will grow up to some bome extent with similar tendencies to those in the world contrary to general belief bellef abroad our religion is not taught in the district schools the public schools of utah are such that the children of persons belonging to any denomination may attend without fear on the part of the parents that they will be trained in mormon tenets under the circumstances cum stances we cannot expect or advise any change if common school education is to be under the control of the state denominational teaching will have to be excluded and thus religion must be measurably if not entirely shut outs out because it is almost impossible to divest it of the bias of the society in control but we think that juthe if the primary schools are left under terri territorial torla I 1 or state direction supported partly or entirely by public funds and that thus religious instruction cannot be included in the system schools might be established under ecclesiastical direction of an intermediate gindin which the public funds would not be used in any way but the support would come from church d thus an influence could be ba consistently exercised in favor of morality and religion according to the principles and doctrines of the church which to us is the embodo heaven and the will and word of the almighty these would be stepping stones atones to in a higher or university education when desired they would bo be occupied by young people whose minds would be sufficiently developed to sense and comprehend the value and force of spiritual and moral teachings and influences and would be a powerful aid to the formation of character and the training of our children in that direction which we regard as er essential to their present and eternal welfare sunday schools are must most excellent institutions they are doing a splendid work in israel they ought to be encouraged and sup ported there thera are areno no betterin better betten in any country than in utah but bat they take hold hoid of our children only one day out of eavens seven and the rest of the week the little folks outside of euch teachings as they may receive at home homo and how much do some of them receive of that are under instruction st from which religion Is ia almost it if not quite excluded five days to the secular Ee cular part of one day to the religious wo we think there should be a change in this policy and we are of the opinion that the establishment of such schools as we have here suggested could be made mr ade successful in every way ways and that they would be a blessing to parents and children of one thing we are persuaded godless schools will not send bend out godly children to become faith falth in spiritually trained and morally matured men and women the history of secular education in thia this country and other parts of the civi world is fruitful with lessons for our people and if we are wise in our generation we will avoid the errors which others have fallen into industrial moral and spiritual education for the young Is obe one of the needs of the times and forms a problem well worthy the attention of the beat minds of the period |