Show CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED the various public schools in this city have circulating libraries for the benefit of the pupils the books are collected in a variety of ways and we believe those in charge aim to have only proper reading matter admitted of course it to is not expected that every book tendered for use in such library can be examined with as much detail as a proofreader would give to his work but it is apparent that there should be sufficient care displayed to exclude literature of a specially objectionable character there is evidence that the requisite care to is not exercised and the laxity is not confined to one school the state school law provides against sectarian teachings in the public schools and certainly these should not be made the vehicle even by auxiliary methods of introducing such sectarianism in its most objectionable form books that inculcate high moral principle which in itself is religious are admitted but when anything of art abusive character toward any religious organization is presented it should be rejected at once there should be excluded from these school libraries evtif work that is anti catholic anti baptist anti presbyterian or that assails any other church organization but that this is not done is evidenced by the following extract taken from a book of the lowell school library it is supposed to be a christmas story told by the way by an author martha finley who Is given to misrepresenting the mormons cormons in her books the elsie series of which there are a number in cir cu cul lation atlon here one of the passages tn this particular story in which a child is represented as expressing a wish to contribute to the mission schools in utah through deep sympathy with poor mormon women reads yes and that is only a small part of the wickedness mormonism IS 19 responsible for remarked Grand grandma rna rose think of the tyranny af their priesthood interfering with the liberty of the people in every possible dav clair claiming ning the right to dictate as to what they shall read where they shall send their children to school attl ith deft whom they shall trade where they S ham live or ordering them to break ui their homes make a lorcey s sale al e of s their property and move into aloth ja state or territory at their own cost 0 or 1 go on a mission s their wicked doctrine and P C tice of what they call blood atone en too sighed grandma elsie and the bitter hatred they in incel cate toward the people and govern metel of the united states added zoe 0 I 1 am sure both love of country ari desire for the advancement of christ christ kingdom should lead us to do all v can to rescue utah from Mormon le r do you not think so mamma there is not a truthful senti sentiment ment I 1 is the entire extract yet such immert immo I teaching is communicated to childre childr through the vehicle provided by afi t public schools let it be anderst understood too here with the strongest emphasis th such volumes are not text books the th are not authorized by the school 0 bials but by reason of insufficient cartel c the school is made unintentionally means of placing before pupils tl class of books which belong to i vilest kind of literature be because cause their falsehood and special a tartan tarlan bigotry the ins which we quote and is not alone should be sufficient toi toh dica teti the board of education y necessity for special diligence in vi vie of the situation here it Is ia a matter which catholics methodists episcopalians Episcopal ians and all other den denoma I 1 eions are interested as t the e mol mons As an offset to the extract from book we refer to christmas ari grandmother elsie we append a p graph from the report of af ao gov mccord of arizona as aa it appeared la irn herald special from washington which states forcible truths about mormons cormons Mor mons after mentioning the a val of early settlers in arizona in later sixties he says soon after this the mormons cormons b begat to locate in the northeast corner of tl territory coming down from utah uta tr acted no doubt by the rich and mineral lands of that part of territory they have gradually ext efte ed these settlements south alone alon eastern part ot of the terr territory atory aal and probably constitute a majority 0 inhabitants of apache and on G counties and quite a const considerable dera of maricola maricopa Mari copa and navajo it said 1 truthfully that there is no more thrifty temperate industrious or better disposed body of citizens in the territory the practice of polygamy among them is now unknown having since been abandoned they have long done as much to bring about the prosperous condition from an agricultural point of view by which arizona is blessed today as any other part of the community especially in the reclamation of the soil by irrigation of which acknowledged masters as well they are in the united states as pioneers would be no injury to the public it pupils to have provided in their school libraries some literature of the character of the later instances given saying and truthful things of the people good mormons and non mormons cormons jew 4 jentile gentile instead of the class of books end and to which objection is here raised |