| Show E edit D LT 0 ORIELS R r REVISION OF THE LAWS WE havid have received the 1 following iatter ietter lattera 1 from drom an intelligent corres correa I 1 in county conaty name we do nol noi nett atiat attach because we have so something M ething to bay say in reply tj tol his communication and do nod not wish flah fish to make this thia api ap i pear bear to be bb a idatte r 7 noy giov nov 26 1879 editor editors lgee JDee reC fet loews JN ems i in your weekly of today to day I 1 teea ee notice of an attempt to 16 thel the school law taw good let det it be revised aad made pe percell but there is one amendment which I 1 would respectfully suggest to the committee on revision which if it 16 has haa been deliberated upon by them is i not referred to in your nolice notice it ia Is this that what th the 1 county collector Co Hector who collects in cub auh the three mills on hi be zap lan dailar dollar for t school purposes or ai the flae pay ment mant of school teachers be autho a to pay aadil achrol tax in cash casa into the county treasury to bo there held subject suba cot to the order of the of schools for the ibe territory or bub sub eject to thu the arder of the territorial auditor if he must be the officer to orders so that tax said can pass pam 0 to o county to trustees and to teachers Teach era tra in cash and not in territorial warrants subject to a discount measured or the conscience of 0 him who ea casceal hem them do you adt no t concur with mein main m a in the opinion that an au amendment of this kind kind bind is necessary and do not our out educational interests merit and de doi do i 1 mand the tull full benefit of the thre 0 mills on the dollar in cash cas cos 1 very respectfully the article to which our friend refers is a notice of the recommendations made mado on the revision of our school laws by a committee of the educational association of this thia county we do not suppose that those who suggest this revision blon aion expect to make the law perfect this thia wo would ald be attempting an impossibility of course it la is desirable that our school laws lawa should maet unset the necessities and conditions of the tho times but these are continually changing and new requirement 4 call for new now provisions we wo think however that too frequent changes in the law are productive of contusion when a statute is partially repealed at one and added to the next this continual tinker ing ang muddles the whole subject and causes strife dispute and numerous mistakes still we would not oppose any needful improve improvement ment jn id school legislation nor pla place ce a straw in the path of educational progress As to the cash payments ad id vomited vo cited by our correspondent we do not hee eee how they can be enforced no difference can be made as to the three mills on the dollar for the benefit of lils Elis district trIO t tua tue 40 hren mills on the dollar for territorial purposes au ditora warrants cannot be refused in payment for such taxes they wiil will always be honored in cabb while there is 19 19 18 cash in ih the treasury if the trustees and county superintendents Interi dents are prompt in complying with the provisions of fat theares the present law and anden in looking after their proportions of the tax little it if any difficulty ivilla will arise tise vla the law as it now stands supposes stipp oses oies that all taxes are paid in cash and the territory Terri tor ial warrants vir rante ranta are esteemed esteb med in law lan equivalent thereto if it they are nut so in fact it is not e expected x that the teachers will buffer any loss thereby nor that any disadvantages of of dis dil discount coline will fall upon their devoted heads live trustees and energetic county tg will wiil see fee deeo to this and either aili cain to the tho best 1 best beat advantage teachers with them at their current value it our correspondent means that when the collector does receive cash for school taxes he should cibe be Authorized to pay bald said school tax into the county treasury ly we hav have to say that he Is now so fco ildau authorized zed 21 there is no provision in the tho law baw tb the contrary the collector is riot required to receive or pay into the treasury anything but cash still it would be ver very y injudicious tomake the law BO so binding could make ar rang tAng emOnts with the Oal collector lector for payment pf af taxes tates that would ac commo date aate the taxpayer and be septable Cep table to the collector who ho must bettle settle with the county tread treasurer in full fall by the end of each year we desire to bee see all those engaged in the education of our youth generously and promptly r remunerated i for their services but BO so far asi ari the matter matier presented by our correspondent I 1 ond entla Is concerned we think the remedy ites lies s with the local school officials rather than with the legislative isla tive A assembly se emby and if there la tobe to be any change in our oui present statutes relating to district Dist riot schools I 1 we hope it will boone be one which will embody in one act alj alf that relates to educational affairs and that it will vill be skimmed so framed that there will bo be no need for patching expunging pu nging and splitting in twain defacing our statute book and making the tha lawa law a bewildering mystery PETITION TO THE legislature I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tue TUB following onto to the lieg liegi i Isla iala tive assembly Am embly has been prepared and will be circulated for lo 10 signatures am among on g those who are engaged in bee farming the object aimed at ia Is ono one ot of much importance honey hondy is a commodity which has hab been largely imported into thi this thib 5 territory rj but all thatis needed for home consumption can be raised within our own borders and the home article can be relied on as pure and genuine in order that this luxury which indeed is almost a necessity necee sity may be produced in paying quantities and of the very beit beat quality some measures mut must be adopted to stamp out andt andl prevent the introduction and I 1 spread of ioui loul foul brood this cannot be effected without the aid of legislation legi we therefore hope that the petition will be largely supported and aud that our legislators will be induced to do something to help the bee men in their laudable endeavors to the honorable speaker and members hembera of oj the legislative As 8 embay of utah gentlemen at your last session we petitioned your honorable body forn torn protective law against the terrible cont contagion kion gion known as foul soul sov tov brood in bees bees we furnished oral and printed data to tho committee to whom the petition was referred in sufficient force to satisfy its members that such a law was a great necessity and your commit tee so unanimously reported and recommended to the house but unfortunately for the bee farmers by the boldness and votes of a few non beemen the measure was defeated we beed need not remind ryeu you that bee bea farming la Is a growing inte interest roar and that it needs needa the encouragement of the practical men of our thriving Teril terii territory tory nor are we asking ing for an unreasonable or injudicious measure easu rev we are simply begging the favor of a law which nearly every single skillful and experienced perien perlin eed ced bee man in the territory fervently prays may be granted us ue feeling the thet tho great need of such a la lauwe will again take pleasure in furnishing your committe commit eto e to whom this petition may be referred with all the information in our possession on jhb this important and vital subject and in duty bound your petitioners ers erb willever will ever pray 0 B R A Z Y ir i ui i THE tre san francisco keport has on its editorial stafi some mie lie who has tables rabies on the mormon question every now and again he froths frothy at tho the mouth about utah commenting a few days ago upon lapon the inability of the grand jury here to find more than ments menta against polygamy and the groundless charge chargo of perjury against witnesses he hb saye The mormon creed is that the end justifies the mean sand the mor morr mons are taught that nothing hil laa lan ian crime that is in the interests of the church in fact a mormon would glory glary in crimo erimo that he was tola toli toik by the heads of the church he was commanded to commit by divine revelation and would honestly deem that its secured him eternal and an hon ored place nar near the golden throne we would like the thai stools to show from our bur creed any auy sentence wor dor jor or phrase that ahat conveys any such idea aa as tha aba thae that theand the end justifies the means oi or that the iutress iu interests tresi pf af the church sanctified sanctifies erime crime the thip assertion is to utterly jit tit terly false and in our extensive acquaintance with the tho mormon people we do not know of one who is such an idiot as to entertain the views described by th the a lunatic who penn penned 6 d it 3 auf luf af ic IP 0 an hi hib his head shead communicated 1 0 A N T 1 A CURS ory g glance a nce nee at m modern boci so of ety will eon convince yince Tince moat observers that abarge a large proportion of public action Is controlled not noi by the force of conviction not bythe by the far read reaching hing I 1 unselfish purpose not by devotion to a grand and expansive ideal but by a very low phase of habit which ig Is terribly if not elegantly expressed by the name of cant this ia Is particularly noticeable in both the political and religious reli rell giona worlds in the formark former devotion to party Is rarely synon bynon synonymous amous with devotion to countr country yi there appears to exist a decree of divorce between and party a and I 1 nd parties often differ no more in their views and practice than can be understood by calling them ins and outs to be a damoc ili i can in a strict bense sense may involve fundamental processes of governmental t action but such ia is the lax ity of habit and the present absence of policy that they are simply ius lus ims ins and autel statesmanship appears to have become swamped in the ocean of mediocrity the purpose of government appears to be only to secure place the public treasury ia is some thing to be depleted and party ia Is to be used as the ladder by which to enter the fortresses of our nation nations resources where is the man where are the man men show to us the party who are in possession of clear views as to the rulure which dur our country va to reach where are those choln who in politics are working for a grand ideal of national life and national character in the halls of congress are not men bought and bold sold are not the representatives 2 of the people in far jar too many instanced the paid retainers of our moneyed ringi Is not our oun fur fair too often the result of 0 gold and does not party demoralize the manhood presidents and Senators fano iano give giva color eva evento atlo the decisions of our highest tribunals Is not the cry of to the tha victors belong the spoils a faithful index of our political aspirations and does not the tho inevitable challenge of every official from the president down to thu the school trustee of a country village when a new party comes to power make partisans parti and place huntera of tens tene of thousands 7 the whole system deamoral ia la 17 ising ing to manhood and might this nation not return to or inaugurate the present fashion and practice of the mother country where removal fro tro from rn office only obtains i for cause and rarely from political 1 bias was and belief MEW in other words cannot the nation rad itself of that plastic cant which insinuates that national salvation only comes through political rin ringa ga of medi gerity living on expediency instead of its is being the fault only offar reaching states manship noting acting upon ik f well digested policy proposing and working 9 for the highest exhibition of anauo national 1 I character and bearing every external and internal element of powei a the subtle evidences of this cant are just as apparent in the religious world men are devotees of a name organization proc proe proceeds eeds from the lowest platform of moral and religious life and there is no effort or means spared to increase and secure cure eure dominance of sect it is how shall we multiply churches chur ches chear and chapels how shall shail we findl places for ministerial action and arid subsistence and but lut tew care to enquire en on guire quire how shall we best work to secure a grand ide ido ideal bf human charac character tei how shall vre we bring en rapport most quickly with spiritual influences arad things how shall swi we develop t ehe 0 highest ni tributes attributes otina of manhood nho od and womanhood and how bow still more rarely do we find combination of sect hect unity of the so called clergy mutual official coune ellings as to the failures of any old method of action or the devising of any new now the fact facts saro sare aro are the whole astern batem is permeated by the spirit cr t cant under coyer coter of ministering to the salvation of rouis fouls there igafo iga positive ignorance and neglect as to thee thet the avig avig of bodies and when through the social or industrial ferment you see professed ministers of the gos gospel of life and peace taking interest in the welfare of the masses buch euch a man is locked looked upon as a farara rara avis and many consider him outside the precincts of bf his sacred vocation the religious world could do with a general consolidation soli dation of its parts Chur churches churchek ches chei and chapels might with advantage be larger and probably letea numerous money should fail fall as the attractive sesame to open pulpit doors and everywhere the philanthropist the statesman the prophet the divine bho sho should tild from one common unselfish platform labor for the elevation of i the human race crotches and whim and division and sect and cant and heln self should unanimously do homage to that divine system revealed of jesus christ it B should be the text bobki book boo k aud and from its essential spirit and its bursting life would come trooping all ideas calculated to tar aid in thel tho the great work of human hunan redemption all processes which would harmonize contending interests and conflicting flie tile ting purposes all power to mould and frame and fashion society upon the basis basla of eternal truths instead of men seeking place place would seek and find n the man useful and experienced men would labor foi for the eom com common moll moli n weal without removal because of inability to pronounce the shibboleth bo leth of party and unity of purpose action result would t ably come from irom f the application of the ilia divine to the human and the human would rapidly approximate to the divine we murf mus of thia this cant nor for it is 13 the archenemy arch enemy of ot progress 0 the betrayer of our best in teats te rests the giant foe i to our u unity pity the one unmitigated mitigated un evil of modern timea and in its destruction st bilon alone m chy ay we rope bope for thu the action of higher impulse the blooming ol 01 holtei racy raci tives ang and the till fruitage of our besk best ideas what the world needs what the age demand demands is leeb lees talk tall and more work less of theo speculation and a more general disposition to return to first and fundamental principles men are wanted who through the tang tangled lail undergrowth and wilderness of the present can open up the avenues and vistas of the pok pot possible sible men who in tb the espirit spirit of sacrifice shall emu late the prophets and martyr martyrs si those heroes and aud and demig demir de odd of the past not men who were born when no one died but men of it boal men who seizing the forces of it eternity can by |
