Show gile glie THE TIIE lineral LIBERAL SORTIE IN TM 1 DISTRICT WE WC dl di tr 11 e further aint the illegal al p proceedings s at the meeting in thee the eighth school schoor district but the letter from the file chairman of af the meeta me etu g which will be found in ai iother another column requires some comment so we recur to the tho subject the writer denies that the meeting that those who owned a watch or value could vote at the meeting whether they paid taxes or not perhaps there Is a word or sentence ahat lie he did not use uye use but the remarks were made bythe by the secretary and lie he afterwards endorsed them hild and ruled that they were correct and personally took the thu same 0 ground as the secretary the tho effect being that he encourage encouraged dond dand and allowed persons to v vote ote on the ground that they held such property without having paid any taxes upon it his objection therefore is a mere quibble about a word avord the principle involved involve din la the remarks remaining remal ning nm the same and by his e endorsement n dor sanctioning them he virtually adopted handmade and made them his own ile he states f urther further that the school law pertaining to the qualifications of voters was read by one oue of the trustees this is not correct the trustee read react the previous section but not that which defines the qualifications of voters and provides the tiie test for that qualification the chairman as we said only read the first parz parl of it and would not read the last which was the portion of the law that olit settles the question it provides how a dispute like that which arose in the meeting is to be db decided elded and one of the means is by the tax list which the trustees had at the meeting but the ch airmans ruling prevailed instead ste adof adot of the law which headid not read and which avak was not read ou that occasion it was this that the prominent taxpayer tax payer wu vye referred to wanted the chairman toj ead when he lie pretended t 0 refer grefer to the law and which he would not read hether tether wf he understood the object of the prominent tax or not the chairman in order to raise another quibble misstates the objection of the NEWS we didiot did not say that the object of the meeting was not stated to those present and therefore not legal 11 this Is a sentence coined by mr lawrence it Is not to be found jil in our article and yet he puts it in quotation marlas as our exact expression pres slon sion here is the language used in tile the editorial of tuesday even evening ing inz the real question announced in the callus call eail as the object of the meeting was not put to the meeting but another question was toted voted on lor lon the purpose of Ae defeating the object of the call this refers to the question voted on arid has nothing to do with statin stating t the he ob object act of the mee mec meeting ting the question announced in the call cali to tobe be voted on was the rate per cent to be levied on the taxable property in he district th ey announced that one hait half of one per cent would be sufficient forthe for the purpose in view the question put to the medin meeting was not on the rate per cent to be levied levied the question ol of whether a tax of one half of one per I 1 cent should be assessed was not put to the meeting at all we care nothing about this as it cuts but a s mall smail figure in the dispute but explain it merely to show that our statement was correct t is not true that objections were nvere made madg by one of the peoples party against women women voting in the way now pretended by the chairman it was not because they were women but because they were not taxpayers tax payers that objection was made their names were not on the tax list and therefore they were not legally entitled to vote the hallnan halinan admits that he ruled so that women were allowed to vote at the meeting on grounds outside of the lawand that is all we claimed those whom the law allows to vote for a school tax are only the bona bora fide property r 0 taxpayers tax payers resident in the fl district ile he claims they were ae legal voters 11 anat has nothing to do w with alth aith the it iatter latter legal voters are not qualified by their position as such to vote for fon fora a tak tux for school purposes only those wh are to pay tiie tile tax can vote for the assessment of the tax and d they can vote for it whether they are arc legal flegal voters that is registered voters or not custom has to be made subordinate to law the law has been chatir changed ted led and the custom I 1 has to con conform to it non residents were allowed to vote by the ch airmans own admission and the law says they shall not vote their votes then were illegal and it is no use to multiply words about that now as to the necessity of further school accommodations the trustees showed tuat there were children of school age in the district and that only 75 65 of them could attend school because of the smallness of the schoolhouse some of these are of non nou mormon ormon onmon parentage applications have been made for furt further er admissions some of them from non mor mon I 1 sout sources ces an additional building isa is a necessity of the district the trustees are required by law to provide the necessary school accommodations they tried to do this legally legall j and consistently who opposed themi theme them the voy very tery individuals who make a howl about the inefficiency of district school accommodations the chairman of the thib meeting says there isa ward meet ehg albu sta ste W which aich some of the liberals helped to build and wants that J used for school purposes zes it if they do I 1 anything it was ivas as members of the C church h which ch they have since forsaken Andon and one cof of the things about which they have raised another howl bowl was the mingling together of church and school property and church and aud school affairs the houseye house bouse belongs belong to the church in the esth ward the school house belongs to district this is how these matters are divided almost if not entirely without except exception itil in this county yet these very liberal op posers of education want a return to the method which was unavoidable in early times but which has been out outgrown rown and which they have denounced denounce 1 vehemently and have ke kept t on denouncing for outside effect long iong on after its discon discontinuance ti nuance the territorial tax is for the tile payment of teachers and cuts no figure in this dispute the pretext a false one at that about sectarian bias has nothing to do with the question the voting was unlawful that is the point and the chairman of the meeting who was nominated by a person that had no legal voice or vote on that occasion has not helped his cause by quibbling overa over a word deliberately misquoting nils mis quoting quotin I 1 the NEWS or figuring as an R of a small tax absolutely essential to the cause of common education in the district where lie he resides the whole movement in opposition to this necessary tax was mean and shabby and unworthy of any person itle itie professing regard for progress and the promotion of influences that benefit mankind |