Show EDMUNDS UTAH SCHOOL BILL WR WE have bad information to the effect that since the passage of the ithe edmunds tucker law senator edmunds has been appealed to by a carpetbag carpet bag element from utah to use his influence to have certain additional legislation passed jamed by congress designed to still further n vade the rights of the majority class of the citizens of this territory we have also been informed that this appeal met with a refusal and that the vermont senator replied t to it by saying in effect that the gentiles of utah had had from 4 congress all the jhc legislation they could reasonably ask and must fight it out with what they had so far as he was concerned if the above is true it would seem thattie th that atthe the iceberg of the senate has thawed out a little under the blandishments blandish ments lavished upon him by bt the agencies of centralization for utah and that the frozen rigidity of his file former resolve has been superseded by an astonishing pliability which he slows shows in yielding to the manipulations populations of i those influences so far has haffee he fb forgotten rhotten his former self that chat hubas he has introduced In into the senate a bill designed to become a Vom complete school code for utah and t to abolish and forestall idl all local legislation upon the subject of schools A synopsis lols of the bill which was described as a most elaborate grate and comprehensive measure appe appeared aed among the press dispatches the bare introduction into congress 0 lessof of th this isbill bill is an outrage upon american principles and add doctrines the school stands next to the home and to take from the people the control of the schools in wh which ich their children are educated is closely akin to taking from them tar the con on arol atrol of atie domicile in which their children are born when centralization seizes the th e schools of the people it can can take only one step more to seize their homes pull full expressions of the american p upon pon I 1 I 1 been called fled forth f by senator B calr lo bill 1111 which a aims 8 to take money from the united states treasury and distribute it among the common schools of the various states without in any manner interfering with the management of the schools this bill has been denounced by hundreds of newspapers and public men as an outrageous attack at tack upon the right of the people to maintain and manage their own schools and other social institutions and affairs and notwithstanding the great amount of good it aims t do in facilitating the education of the children of the masses it has met with the most determined opposition in congress and throughout the country on account of its covert attack upon fixed fired A merican american principles the democratic party is solid in its hostility to the famous blair bill tut but this bill compared with the edmunds utah school bill is a a gnat to a cam camel el the latter instead of providing proA ding the schools of this territory tx ry with financial aid from the general government provides for burdens of an oppressive char acter to be laid upon the people 0 OB a pretense of their support the taxation provided for in this bill is immense there to is a three mill mil territorial tax a six mill county tax and a district tax for school buildings the limit of which Is not stated probably it has none the wt feature of the whole measure is the fact that the territorial and county officers officer s to supervise schools and school affairs are made appointive instead of elective by the people who pay the monies to be disbursed by the minions of centralization we do not vash ish to believe that the senate will give serious attention to this latest legislative production fathered by edmunds but begotten la in utah the fact that the utah legislature is now maturing a school code with a view to putting the he district schools in the best beat possible condition ought to prevent congressional action upon the subject eject |