| Show illiteracy IN THE STATES tim THE statistical table furnished by mr nir willits with his bill for federal aid to education shows that there is a vast amount of illiteracy among the voting population of this great and glorious country the dispatch which gives some of the he figures is wor worth reading threading and consi considering it will wil 1 be found in in our telegraphic columns there are illiterate voters in the thirty eight states some of the boasted new england educated states are in the dark list as well as many of the southern louthern states we would like the moral reformers who pretend to despise utah and to be so much concerned at her alleged lack of education to enquire into the statistics and compare notes it will be found that with all the drawbacks incidental to a territory utah is aberdon the list of literacy of many of the states where money is being collected to provide schools for the ioor koor poor poor neglected children of the mormons cormons Mor dior mons 9 like the rest of the cries against this people the clamors about their lack of schools is humbug and those who make them had better look at home |
