Show ero fromille Fro from milie tho the boston index april athi MORALITY AND EDUCATION amona unni NS editors of the index the mormon churches Chur church chAs is officered mainly aini b ay by americans ai ne ricans its earliest coni con i birt bert verts vents being principally of that class and now a number of generations is ito to be seen in the bud as it were on I 1 this parent stem the charge is often olten heard that mormon emigration emigration corisis ts i of oft paupers haupers and chiminitz crim criminals iniTZ such a report was made last surn summer mer to the government at washington by a united states consul with reference to a co com comi M i pany of I 1 mormons cormons that were on t their heir way from europe on the arrival of t the steamer the human freight was inspected by a government agent whose report was a the charge of the gentleman with an 6 honorable attached to his name but what is their condition in utah of ithone its one hundred and seventy live five thousand population twenty fl nive five thou 1 sand only are arc gentil gentile but this tills in minority is distinguished in certain va ways s it fills ff early every po gillon of bf witt mitt influence and emolument from froin the tiie governorship dewri dow fi one of the phases ol of civil ac service reform in U utah tah of tho two hundred saloons billiard rooms and bowling bowline alleys 1 a dozen are mormons cormons Mor mons or prof profess adl S to be all of the and other othe disreputable I 1 potable concerns ce rus are arb are run and mix AIX sustained tIned by anti antl I mormons cormons Mor mons niney eight per cent of df the gambler gamblers gamb lers iera 4 are alt of the same element clement as are ninety five percent per ent of the lawyers Elg eig eighty lity percent per cent of the litigation is from f rom thea theo same so source ninety per cent centi of the suicides are non mormon as lre ire are also aiso uty eighty per cent of the homicides and ir infanticides antikides antic ides ldes of the one thousand arrests in salt lake ci city for or the year 1881 one hundred and nifty fifty t were anti antl mormons cormons in 1878 it co could 1 be said that out of the twenty count counties es of the territory most of which are ae populous lilous thirteen were without a gp dram x am shop brewery gambling house b billiard room or brathel brothel lawyer doc doe toi toil parson darson beggar or politician U utah tah ta h territory orv has no bonded debt liar ilar have any hepting cep ting galt gait lakah lake city it A T 1 ann and t that at is heugh feugh I 1 luety finety uye uve per vr eni ena 9 9 th fc fv jy u mormon peo people ile ure are R S their own houses wilthel bil uli thelmi thil thel own lands for which they hold deeds in their down town own names the largest y most perfect system of operation cooperation co I 1 bel bei believe belleve leNT ju jn america exists among the teg mormons cormons Mor mons ons geurge jacob holyoake would be in his clement element there or rather he would find his yo vocation cation catlon gone he might not bb inis pleased to hgr hear that operation cooperation co among iMpi fg nemis nemia known by the nameon name of the order of enoch which is to make ahe of the saints fit for translation lo 10 the skies mies or the earth rather a tit fit for celestial beings in temperance atinay not be to say the mormons cormons lead the world and due to atohi a revelation riven given to joseph smith entitled the word of wisdom it teaches that health mental und rind bodily de db pend on abstinence from strong drink tobacco cof coi and flesh arso aiso atso ansof excepting in times of winter or famine I 1 never drank anything as stron strong even as a al cup of coffee until I 1 acquired the habits of more civilized communities e lo 10 0 one of the liberal church chuich or br eans caus the CA I 1 uhlon in lua iua a late issue assue speaks ov of the successful establishment IlAh liah ment of purely hierarch hierarchical ial schools in lff the interest of 1 l by the side sidd of which rom nom antem Is s an cm bodied sermon xin 11 ud theM 1 t bunt I 1 and of J 0 the mormon M i cia cip teaching polygamy as a religious koug houg dut dot duty at public ex pense pc nse the schoolhouse school souse louse Is often Us alivin 0 the meet meetinghouse which is 1 neter never bedr called a chu church ek and the bishop esthe is the i ical cal manager mana e of 01 the school abfal affair the tho deac teacher c is certain to be a faithful and earnest ear est follower of joseph smith S ita the book of mo rmon idon anapo trino and covenants hold curriculum ri grave cliar cilar charges es cr but are they true truc I 1 have oth th taught and attended school chool in utah I 1 never recited nor gave a lesson frodi 6 a church book exception except in one instance A boy came caine io to dmd day 31 with stith a primer foj mer of the desow ba tinder tindera his arm vt a bap mormon lormon invention and aften after shying h in about for some time came to we and una said eather rather father wants to td know knoo kho khu if you to ii wont wah teach me the new hew new alphabet alpha g ety ezy I 1 answered in the negative not knowing its A aarom from Z myself but curiosity prompted me to comply with the paren parenty parents tv wish not mot heing being deterred by the recollection ot of the somewhat irreverent remark passed on the system be one ene of the when asked by president young what he thought of it answered ajl U think there is one letten detter should be added P what is that basked tasked the prophet let yer ler cr rip ald said sald aid the apostle i the hooks books in use in the mormon schools are arc the same as alaa elsa where the services eg of gentile teachers have been and are in demand As far back as 1868 the largest school in ia salt lake city had a gentile teacher at its head a graduate of yale the finest hall in the city tile the fourteenth ward assembly booms the saints meeting house was thrown open for his use ue he was obliged iu in utah to abjure certain eastern cwi customs toms forat for at yale Y P I 1 believe there are axe religious exercises and if luni iuni stake not liot the attendance is compulsory A distingue minister of the east who visited utah quite recently ba has bas s jus t written me saying 1 I founta fount a contile woman it w their thoin high school as a higher salary than she could get in new york or st louis louls in both of which cities she had previously labored and elected solely on account of her ability ail agi lity ann add without an any question s as to her roii rell religion ion jon 1 I 1 re ke ilg jig ligion 10 in a f fact act ll 11 has no place inthav cur im of 11 the ll schools in utah unless it be inthe in the schools of the outsiders out siders sidera Artic leXI of the constitution of the new state Sta teof of utah reads I 1 S sec 1 the legislature shall provide for a uniform system of public scho schools 0 Is and mav may mar may esla esia es labUsh blish free schools provided t that hag no seg see sectarian or denominational doctrines doctori nes shall be taught in any school supported in wholly or in inart para part by public funds i 4 phed ep 2 all legislation in regard to edica lion shall ic be impartial guaranteeing arant araut being to all parsons persons of every race 91 color or and re religion lidon ilson equal rights anduri and privileges ab nb sect or denomination shail shall ever control or appropriate to its own use any of the public school or university funds of the jhb state tile the report deport of the commissioned comal of education shows that utah Is ai in ad callep vance odthe of the tefie veneral general ral rai average of bf the united states in the euro enro enrolment libent of school percentage of daily attendance ardd arid th the amount per capita culta invested in sch property here is a compi comparison trison pr proportionate 0 te to puia 1 0 p pula u lik lit tion between Uta hand missie massachusetts h u s 1 and the district of colum columbia b a 2 I 1 11 14 a S S te N Z acx mch a i s eis eks gaissl gis sl IW L ro crt tit jit 1 41 1 utah ut 9 an n G 5 r 3 14 4 massachusetts 25 1355 1253 12 53 23 11 11 district of columbia 27 40 23 35 9 11 A ai INCIDENT i most of the outside schools in utah are under denominational auspices auspice whose teachers teach cra ers are sometimes by the title of reverend lle ite reva Reve fend it was das was my bood fortune to ciha vc formed a slight acquaintance with one of gentlemen T gilt girt 1 who wal hs arh the tile eli prin i ieh leb genille in salt lake city ri ly which bythe way stands square an and a anui snug ag against I 1 t ane anc g episcopal pl copal stone cin ain c toom toc towar 3 whose construction brohr brigham young I 1 D contributed r I 1 belleve believe sonie sonic s joo I 1 r sold boid this teacher in li n salt sait sa 11 lake I one of adams illustrated historical charts I 1 was vas even atvea then theu skeptical having small faith in the beginnings of history as indicated on this chart by otes from abbl BiblIcal 1 cal cai sources my mind hand smitten with palsy as I 1 pointed to the pictures of our first parents of cald cain and able the tower of babel abraham offering up his son isaac the CT children ildren lidren of isam israel passing through the loed red sea etc but my customer seemed as interested ln in this portion of the stream of time as in any other and a little more so I 1 fancied but before he could make maie make the purchase he must see the bishop he alel sent lwe me to him I 1 called exhibited my goods and made a s sale ale years passed four or five perhaps when I 1 met my acquaintance on one of your new mew york steamboats it was a surprise to each for sor he was settled over an episcopal parish in new england and I 1 was was wag studying for the unitarian Uni tarlan ministry on religion I 1 was at sea ism the faith falth of my parents had crumbled to pieces in my mind but he I 1 supposed had haa known no change lip from jafs pocket a pam pamphlet bet get 1 reasons for believing kleving g the advent of oud ond lord bord jesus christ to be pre millennial in both cr eena ecna ecHa nd leef leed Mormon mormonism ila iia outstrips the christianity of our time and for the reason that it was born of the nineteenth century hild and on american soll soil forthe last twenty or forty jears ear solie one side only of this question af it is time that the other ot er side were listened tor fod hear and then judge TW cauris I 1 flir I 1 curtis our oun is info informs r us sine ance 9 our e editorial t orial arr ahr article leie icie was wafa r written that thou though ahe he left utah tn la 1876 h has pas kept himself informed b of the condition of things in the and believes that tile the tendency there ilas lias has cleft taw toward r d ft jorte iberal practice dw 4 wih ega e ta schools dis rather than the rev reverse erse IV JP editor index T r |