| Show unprincipled AND ISIS ais nent THERE appeared in the antl anti mormon 1 1 organ of lost last sunday aug a matter to which we were at once tempted to directly dire itly refer in eon consequence sequence of th the e indecent character of the sheet in question we hesitated I 1 i reminders of the subject have come I 1 however in the torio forin of de denuncio nuncia denunciation ton from non mormon sources against the insinuations and false position of toe the newspaper alluded to we consequently set aside for the time our repugnance to making direct mention of t the he false statements which constantly appear in its columns for the attainment of the purpose to in view it becomes necessary to quote the following the ward seven school opens sed september 5 with these three new dew and highly capable instructors professor albert S martin who has made a good record in the park city schools as principal and misses margaret zane aane and annie bere as teachers in the intermediate and primary department s respectively A new room feet has been added to the school building and such other improve ments made that it is now claimed to be the best equipped school in town the brethren squeal at the idea of gentile teachers and a few parental pa lunk lank heads are sending their precious bodocs to other ward schools where the gods kingdom on earth racket can still be taught but the increasing superiority rity of the ward seven school will ere long long show most of these parents their folly olly and bring brine the precious young ones back to where there is w first elass teaching the vulgarity of that paragraph alone is sufficient to render it repulsive to every person perso who respects emmos decency dew ncy parents pal le rits of school children are denominated lunk heads and the little ones bodocs Mo docs and a statement is made to the effect that instructions of a religious character are given in the other district schools of this city thus thas this unprincipled sheet which claims to largely represent the non mormon part of the population introduces into educational matters the subject sub jeet of religion II 11 on mad this matter been confined to the loal columns of the source from which abich the quotation is made the base insinuations it contains might have bare been attributed to the obfuscated condition of some blundering reporter but there is an editorial repetition of it in the same issue after enumerating and eulogizing eulogi zina the denominational schools about to open inc including Riding the methodist congregational Congregation it presbyterian baptist and catholic Cat this was waa in the same bame article introduced 94 Finally we feel that we ought to in elude 1 ude in tois this notice the seventh ward district school it is ia a first class common school the management mana Kement is all that could be desired for children it is IN the st bt john among utah common schools crying out of the glory that is to te be it is only fair to the principal and trustees of the seventh district school to state that the intimation that they have established and propose to condret a school that can truthfully be classed is placing them in a false position they assert that the law in relation to the exclusion of religious teaching strictly conformed to now no for the insinuation that abe doctrines of the mormon religion are taught in some of the other districts where the teachers belong to gat that faith this question was brought to a direct issue in the courts in the early part of at 1886 in connection with this same seventh district long before its trusteeship fell into liberal hands i A proceeding was brought in the third district court belore judge zane daae by L S stevens and thirty six alx other nou non I 1 mornion dormon residents and taxpayers of the dis district trist the object was wag to obtain a permanent ot injunction against the trustees and assessor to prevent them from om collecting a tax levied tor jor the pnra ose of erecting a schoolhouse A temporary restraining order was grafted grau araia ted the chief basis of complaint upon which the request for a permanent injunction was asked was that the doctrines or 01 the mormon religion were taught in the schools the investigation ti was long and elaborate anti and great iati latitude tude was allowed the purpose being to make the strongest pos stole lole showing for the applicants as against the church notwithstanding tills this chief justice zane to his bis credit be 1 it said dissolved the restraining order and denied the injunction in giving his decision he said while the evidence is conflicting as to the seventh district the weight is against the proposition that sectarian doctrines have been and are now taught therein the evidence does not raise a sufficient probability that such doctrines will be taught in te he house bouse to be erected with the tax in question the tax Is in pursuance of ef a valid law and the building i is s to be erected on a lot of 01 ground the title to which is in the school trustees the evidence fails to show that the tax is being raised to build a sectarian school honse 11 in relation to common schools in general within the of the court the chief justice also remarked 99 if at any time hereafter it shall be made to appear that the house erected with this tax or any other erected with a like tax within the jurisdiction of the court is being used for church purposes to the injury of the school or that in the school therein is being taught the creed of any sect it will be the duty of the court to prevent by injunction such use and such instruction in the face of these demonstrated facts the journalistic strife breeder asserts an in so many words that the parents of mormon children in the seventh district purpose sending the latter to other districts where their religion is taught the judge gave a bid to lany any non cormons mormons to come into court in case anything any thing of that nature existed and judgment would be rendered accordingly no complaint of that kind has been ma made d e because there has been no foundation lor for one and think of this same paper whose bitterness eliminates all reasonable controversy from its columns now el classing assing the seventh district babool at present wholly under non mormon control among those that are denominational or sectarian with thelt urther designation that atlis chest john among utah common schools I 1 |
