| Show GOVERNOR THOMAS REPORT THE DEsE ELET EVENING NEWS of november ath and the adma dma SEMI WEEKLY of november ath will be found a fall report of G governor Gj vernor arthur L thomas to the secretary of the in perlor for 1891 no other paper has given all the tabulated and statistical matter it contains on the whole it is a a valuable and comprehensive document it includes a vast amount of information which will be useful for future reference the progress of the territory is displayed in the figures which the governor has so eo carefully compiled and they tell in louder tones than fine sentences could utter the story of the material condition and prospects of utah upon the statements and explanations of the governor on various subjects we have no criticism to make until he touches on the educational question he then displays a dai desire sire to depart from plain facts and indulge in some anti mormon opinions Itle it is true that the church has appointed a board aboard of education it ignot ie not true that the church schools are designed to enter into competition with the district schools 1 if it is wron wrong 9 11 as the governor dogmatically mati cally says it to is for the mormon church to have a board of education with the view af establishing denominational schools in various parts of the territory to is it not just as wrongs wrong for the methodist presbyterian and other sectarian churches to do likewise yet he furnishes statistics of the denominational schools of the territory with the amounts expended in their support carefully excluding what the church of beaus christ of latter day saints is doing in this regard does the governor really mean what he says that denominational schools can only serve the purpose of narrowing the minds of those educated under their influence if so all these de nomi national schools which he takes such pride in parading ought to be closed up what will the ministers of those denominations and the sectarian boards board ot of education cation in the east which have established many of these schools think of his official denunciation of their efforts if he means that the mormon lp church is in wrongs wrong but the other churches are right in establishing denominational nomi national schools echo ola where is thia the logic or indeed the common sense of hie his proposition the church schools he opposes conte come no more into competition with the district schools than do those of other denominations in fact they do not compete with them as much for the mormon church schools are of a higher grade than the district schools and specially designed for young people who have advanced from the district schools to higher studies and if the design was to discourage the district schools why were the school bonds voted for by the mormon people without whose support they could not have been issued the Gover governor noc could have obtained the full facts if he bad desired to print them instead of the erroneous rumors to which he has given official utterance an the polygamy question is treated in a fair and consistent manner from t the he governors governor Is standpoint and he frankly states that when the general conference adopted the manifesto he accepted their action as an a sincere espres sion of their views s he thinks further that their action should be re carded as sincere until there is good reason for thinking otherwise A in the main he is fair in his statement concerning the political movement which led to the division of the people into national party organizations from the facts and dates he be gives it will appear to the careful reader beyond controversy anat fia instead of originating with the n leaders as claimed by many liberals 11 1 it commenced with republicans and democrats who were formerly liberals s and that the overtures peoples party came from them the governor expresses the opinion too that I 1 it is a step which probably will never be retraced and further that the mass man of the people have gone into the party movement in perfect sincerity and that it is their present intention not to retrace their steps in presenting the resolutions of the parties here however r while careful to fully quote the liberal platform he gives but a scrap or two of the republican and democratic utterances and entirely omits their re resolutions volu in regard to the enfranchisement and amnesty of the mormons cormons Mor mons it is perhaps too much to expect that a liberal will be altogether impartial the terrors of immediate statehood appear appolit to be an aa frightful to the governor as to any of the liberal faction whose cause caune the governor proceeds to champion he fears that unless it to la postponed the peo people ale would 11 submit to the will of their leaders what would be the awful consequences of the will of their leaders is not explained but he be says of the mormon people they have been taught to believe and do dim believe that when their leader speaks toe be but gives utterance Us to the will the divine master s this is as a complete a misrepresentation of mormon belief past and present as could be put into words we do not know whether to is bo ignorant of mormon nl doctrine as aa to think he be is ia fairly explaining it but w 3 do know that what he be days on this point is ia utterly false and misleading if he cannot understand what the Mormon Mor mons sl believe on this subject he is unfortunate if he does understand and purposely reverses it we have no desire to express our candid opinion of his effort the governor believes it is the intention of the liberal party to deal fairly with the mormon people Ps if so go his faith to is sublime in view of the course taken by that faction and its ite present attitude and in face of his own statement that in the meantime the liberal party will maintain it ita organization and oppose statehood with all ail the ability and power it possesses why statehood should he opposed aa as the governor views it malthus may thus be summarized it would place the territory under the control of the mormon church it would tie be expensive and cause In increased creaso taxation and the liberals do not want it that is all what would happen if statehood should soon come and the leaden should raise the old oWn standard dard he ad aa mite mils he be cannot say but this he has ha several times implied would be lea ioa probable because the steps taken will wih never be retraced 11 and chevery the very division on party lines abi which c h the liberals oppose would be the strong est eat guard against the control be affects to fear As to the increased expense everybody knows about that and also that utah is far better prepared prepare dand and I 1 eq equipped to assume it than was either idaho or wyoming or to is any other territory seeking for admission into the union but why do the liberals not want it and why should a small faction of the comman ty control ingo in so important a matter all that thai he urges against statehood te is upset by his own closing ref remarks fArker on the question Z i of course every territory ought to be admitted into the union as soon as possible consistent with the welfare and needs of the people the territorial system is contrary to the principles upon which our government was established it denies to the people who live under it any voice in the affairs of the general government but statehood should never come until all the conditions which are necessary to build up a great and patriotic tic commonwealth commonweal th are perfectly fulfilled with a pat of approval on bu the back of the utah commission the governor closes his able report with that body he be has a 8 fellow feeling statehood j would place him in the same box with it as ae defunct of course statehood for utah is it dreaded consummation no off official iclal hankers hankerd to be a political corpse but 0 since ince there is no present effort to rush utah into the union as a state the terrors and declamations of those who cop oppose pose it with all the ability and power they possess are a little premature and quite suggestive of personal reasons for their tremors and apprehensions the governors report for 1891 is altogether the best he has written and the na most oat comprehensive and statistically valuable of any gubernatorial report that has been made from this territory |
