Show ME THE SCHOOL TAX controversy JI zanes s decision on the seventh district school tax question is a clear and pointed opinion besides its value in a strictly legal sense it Is priceless from another standpoint combined with the extraordinary proceedings leading to ith its production it exhibits what we have always maintained that the district schools are arc practically and essentially nonsectarian nonsectarian there the remarkable IQ latitude allowed the tue prosecution in their endeavors to prove otherwise places that polut point hy by their failure beyond di dispina dis pine pinc should any future effort be made madu to claim that the common cummon schools are arc sectarian the trial of the tile seventh district case will be a strong base oil on which to combat a proposal of that character it is not at all probable that there will wilt ibe the slightest color for such a claim in future as those who have the management and conduct of sc schools will cautioned by the case so feo recently closed prudently shun the very appearance pe arance of sectarian bias in their operations while wo we cannot do otherwise than view the late case as fortunate because of its results we can cant scarcely refrain from occasionally commenting upon the peculiar armica arnica 4 exhibited by the prosecution while it was being coni ducted the alleged argument made at the close by assistant district attorney torney varian was supremely ridle u ous ansome of its phases he tie laid a most extraordinary charge against the mormons cormons Mor mons of not sending their chi children chilgren laren to the sectarian religious mission schools that they might be reformed he must have been cat catching catchall chill at straws to put fr forward vard such a piea pica as that lda ida in a case I 1 in n w which hie h he was seeking to prove that the mor alor mons taught sectarian tenets in the district S it was ail an argument lor tor and a against adust sectarian education in the same breath surely air varian varlan Va rians s partisan bias is of such an extreme character as to leach lench the very border of insanity such an exhibition of folly as a complaint that tile the members of one religious body do not put their children in a POS position to be weaned from their views of theology and b be e won over to others is not often e equalled equal turin balled led leo not to say surpassed duning during the trial a great point was made of the fact that in some of the schools prayers were offered at the opt ope opening of the exercises of the day the effort to prove prose rove that president john taylor had halip been named in some of those supplications ions was quite pathetic especially in efer enca euca to those offered by the teacher of the seventh district mr van dam was compelled in this connection to perform ail an act that bordered on the sac sae religious being forced to repeat in court before a gaping ing crowd of petition he had T been in the habit of addressing in school to the deity although the benefits growing out of the late trial are such as to merit solid appreciation they are the results of proceedings i that reflect no credit upon those who gase gave them thedro the grotesquely tes quely absurd turn they in some respects took owing to the ineffable disgust they created among decent people their ia is a decided relief |