Show A CHANGE i NEEDED tiie THE public have not heard much lately of jacob S boreman he used to occupy the position of judge judg in the he second judicial district where he was less noted for legal lore that than anti mormon bitterness for awhile he figured as chief atef passer of th the e plate at methodist gatherings and finally ob bained the appointment 0 commissioner of schools for utah territory with a yearly salary of fifteen hundred dollars in this be line has distinguished himself hi mae 1 chiefly by the extent of red tape with which he be has made the life of the school teachers a burden so many complicated and voluminous reports are required that teachers have very little time out of school hours bours dorany for anything ingelse th else than making out these tabulated statements recently he has drawn some attention to himself by a singular speech made at a teachers institute in logan and this is the reason why we devote any vace pace to this unimportant individual we are informed that on the alt u it he attended the institute the last day of its ito session just long enough to comply with the letter of the law which requires the commissioner to visit those gatherings gatheridge his official effort in the cause of education consisted of the statement to begin with that he was a Lib liberal erad 2 and the enunciation that gentiles were opposed to the union of church and state and ana to polygamy with a disser tion upon the impossibility of state hood for utah until these two obstacles are removed the teachers instead of being instructed ted in their duties or encouraged in their labors labom or advised as to any im improvements they could make in their methods of tuition were treated to a liberal tirade to their intense disgust and the adoption of the following resolution resolved that commissioner boreman borean an is mistaken in supposing that the members of this ibis institute or other people I 1 in utah as far as we know are disloyal ayal or that we are teaching or practicing ing polygamy or a union of church and state and that the commissioners state ments bearing that inference were uncalled for the infliction of such a narrow mindel and bigoted sectarian as he upon the educational interests of utah is one of the disadvantages of the territorial system which nothing can re move but the political liberty to which the people here are en entitled titled but which persons of his bis ilk aej calibre desire to pr prevent e v 0 nt we have the consolation chat that freedom from such burdens must sure ly and speedily come no matter what 1 ivl obstructionists obstruction lets may do to hinder ii 1 they may postpone but they cannot prevent it and meanwhile the supreme court of the Territory ought to have regard for the public interest and give utah a man a scholar and a nonpartisan worker in the cause of education uca tion tiou for commissioner of public schools |