Show THE SCHOOL TAX SQUABBLE F tiie THE litigation in the third district court over oven the school tax question is ludicrous and yet shameful the laughable part Is the attempt to turn into an election a meeting of taxpayers to determine whether they will agree to thel the assessment of a tax to build a at 6 schoolhouse the shameful ar t is the falsehood to which a number ier ter of men claiming to be respectable have resorted for the purpose of avoiding dayment payment of a small tax in the interest 0 of general education the statements that are set forth in that part of the complaint which seeks to make mak C it a appear that the district schools are sectarian that no non oon 46 mormon Mormont can be either a trustee or a school teacher that the A mormon lormon religion is taught in those schools di erectly or indirectly are most certainly false the text of that part art of the complaint will be found yu in another column the arguments of counsel for the trustees trustee were directed to reasons for the striking out of that part of the complaint complain without attacking its veracity the 8 motion to strike out Is overrule di and now we suppose the defence will dispute the tho allegations get gei forth rud lud put puit tho 00 complainants to the proof Itse it seems emst to 0 us that refutation of the falsehoods t in n the complaint will be an easy matter it is evident that the court is disposed to leanto leau lean to the side of the complaint and we expect that anything which seems likely to do injury to the mormon mo till system ili iii receive favorable consideration but if the district schools of utah are not public bublic schools then the term public has ha a not to be found in the bundara dictionaries and it if they are sectarian in any m way then there Is not an pu public ile ilc school in the united states we trust that this matter will be thoroughly investigated and aud that the falsehoods of the complaint will be demonstrated and the sophistry of the I 1 arguments of the plaintiffs counsel will be exposed so s that the cause of common commo n education in this territory may not be retarded retail ed by tha selfishness of a few obstructionists and the j sc school system byster oot mot utah continue to lle ile i misrepresented py by unprincipled de I 1 fa failers iners |