Show THOSE AMUND amendments MENTS the news Is in receipt of a lengthy communication from mcoscar Mr Oscar VanCo tk county superintendent of in which he takes exception to some ot this rega regarding the proposed constitutional mr van cott or any other person has a perfect right i co daf fer and dissent from any D bv inions set ott out by this or any other paper but ife he has no right to use its columns for tike the purpose of giving grivin gr express expression lon to asplen tic statements which have no other apparent parent foundation than persona person zi aaser ti venese and a disposition to be colloquially loqui ally such ten lian gnaga guage as that some of our statements were un true and Is not the way to engbre eng asre in a 9 contrare re en eft aided f in ostensibly for the th purvise pur vose of ng errors whon tho ae of Is isaeff ing in order that not ap ih owr vot be b deceived it in 1 well that a on rf tot in tio fro the fhe atae id of kitain Km tain omo of wo 0 ahert the nt of fairness also candor cana oy an 04 were in little it if inv av vt lall ab of efflin foiw titles ra ame mme of the schools ch ark to territorial davs by no 90 mach ma ch fin an armi roert bt b made whose whom ant jonm be koly to pass marv as ra wo rao O found ness and if t tap th to is not correctly stated hv bv dal lector such people bowld be deceived dc elved and maled we patt not Is that the pave no adice to the public except to tet let the alone for a while ats q of the proposed posed aad growing out of the haene hearg ben merely yet our the incidents and eWt irv ovelt orel looks the elect kimpo rt bv the aisel 1 I tt Is ig tylle that tbt in roni ToTi he that not the he fre of nf aba th arpp fr demands nat fc artt A 10 of the constitution be mi aft 1 this Is bu but t a conclusion ans tn ano wt variance with that of it a good wara aeo ale who have had same borne expert exa ence among them members of the legislature which was responsible tor for placing the proposed amendments before the people but bult supposing the correspondent to be right and those who differ wrong it still remains remail ns that the position of this paper Is not overthrown it held and holds that the eff effect act df bf adopting amendments to fro a great charter which Is less than three years old la is too mischievous a precedent to obtain in any commonwealth mon wealth unless the ma malters titers concerning winch amendments are sought are crying evils which obviously ought not to be permitted to eblet such a condition of things as it is albo altogether gether improbable a boidy body of intelligent upright men in convention assembled would folet foist upon the people to seek to amend because of any amy other ground of is simply alm ply to cultivate individual whims and confer a premium upon the exploiting of technical defects this engaged in at an am early perk period d pf af the constitutions promulgation simply lets leta down the bars invites bill ail hands hand sto to enter and the plain result kavet be that the fabric of om f unda funda mantai laws would soon soo n be a ahling of shreds and patches a document for fen daws to peek peck at a contrivance for cheap politicians and shallow demia dema gingues to play withal except as herein stated it Is repeated that the constitution should be lot let lalone alone the exception does not exist and our critic does boit show chait it does except by means of a most pal kalble apse ipse dixit wherein he be pronounces the present arrange reuting to school finances a death ded dealing ing blow to the schools achoo aa outside of salt lake bryand acty and ogden As the system has bias been in vogue nearly three yeats years anid aind the schools ech so 00 far froim being dead are very much alive and even apparently flourishing it would seem the death dealing qualities of the blow are so flo moderate in force farce and tardy in that we might with propriety claim that the schools would manage to survive for far say aay two years longer loinger anyway if this be the case anid and there is in in the other oither propositions calling loudly tor for immediate action otton aj the position first taken by the news lit Is thoroughly maintained without reference to subsidiary conclusions regarding which we are not now discussing but claiming that even evem they are neither erroneous wor mior what to te wanted Is 18 to preserve the fabric of our wealth teaching the peaple to tio resort to quackery tor for every little adl ailment ment let the idea be instilled into every mind and heart that a state being the anid limitation ot of all our means of asserting right and repelling wang Is to tow sacred anid and lan im portrait porta ait a document to be treated at every eveta opportunity as though it were the merest mereat make shift shafta aa thime hud bud died hastily together without consider aitkin with the expectation that tty KY anid cOr would be conferred rv upon m it by others than its makers even e it if it were in this which it t te ii zot tt ft would be the better plan not to advertise the griel grievous rous fact quite so co extensively buttling putt ling five great patches on it so 90 early to in its career bould SS be ad e long aa a we a can get along it ft at all as we seem to have done SO 0 o far without toss 1060 of life liberty or banot bonot |