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Show 4 TAB? displaced ing or otherwise. But Tanner has gone right ahead drawing his two salaries from time to time. for the purpose of ousting but that was but had incurred the displeasure and discipline him. board. That he is cognizant The The two Merrill boys and Lewis Cannon are excellent young men, but it wasn’t every influence with which Tanner practiced reciprocity that could with ability to wear the board. effort to oust Tanner from one State office or the other, but established head-quarters at the he ‘‘historian’s inferior was sought by the year. If he isn’t doing all the work heis capable of doing at the college then he ought to have other duties to perform. These are hard times and every saving made is a benefit to the tax- payer. If Tanner’s surplus energy were expended in class-work it might be the means of reducing the faeulty by one, and it would give him something to think about besides wire-working for his own security, for the reward of his friends and the punishment of those who oppose or refuse to endorse his schemes. * Outward Tene Methods. Aa * evidence of the trouble fermenting in the Agricultural Col—_Jege has been lacking until recently, * * own way now, having disposed of his nearly all recalcitrant members of the faculty and being able to get almost any kind of a statement he requires from the students. But, ike all great men, he has his ups and downs; ae when Mrs. Sarah Godwin Goodwin gets in his path he scarce knows which way to turn. As trustee she em- there is a chance for any but forewarned favorites to make an application. There are scores of men In Utah, even in Cache County, who are just as capable and a great deal more alive than Joseph HK. Wilson; but to him alone was given the opportunity te which all were entitled; and that it was all done by a preconceived mn oonon is shown by the circumstances attending the discharge of Hyde and the employment of Wilson. The same haste was made in the engagement of Miss Cannon, who will not entet upon the discharge of he duties before néxt September. No chance at all was given to any; other person. . Why not? Isn’t it the policy of the board to secure the best service for the least money? is it only necessary to know that an applicant Or is named Smith or Cannon or Merrill, repairing his fences with all the skill of the in the Agricultural Gallego of Utah? There will be another meeting of the board in June, so why this haste to make contracts and fill vacancies which do not exist in fact for several weeks? It is bad enough when polities enter a State insti- poli- AINA * but the uneasiness of President Tanner has been very apparent for some time. He has been tician he is, and his success in playing one man against another, one element against another, has justified the energy it eost him. Take for instance the case of Secretary Hyde, who was nN anti- ployed herself to do a portion of Miss Kenyon’s office ’’ and, of course, lobbied himself through work in the eollege and fixed her salary ata the danger. In_his capacity as president of the figure in excess of what Miss Kenyon had been college he draws a salary of twenty-five hundred receiving for twice the labor and responsibility. dollars a year from the State, enough for any — And then Mrs. Goodwin, profiting by examples man as times are, and a great deal more than this all about her, asked that her husband be appointparticular man happens to be worth, for all he is ed as her assistant. But Mrs. Goodwin finally a pleasant, genial gentleman. It is salary. suffiresigned from the board although she retains the cient to command a small college president’s unemployment she secured from the board while divided time and there is surely enough work for she was yet a member of it. him to do in building up a young institution like ** ** * that without putting in a few days every week in It will not be an easy matter for the trustees another office, in a distant city, laboring for to explain to the satisfaction of the people of Utah another salary. If he isn’t provided with enough why vacancies in a public institution are suddenwork at the college to occupy his time and talent, ly filled before they actually exist, and before he doesn’t earn his twenty-five hundred dollars a NEXT! to * President Tanner has things pretty much > eee removal. cousin, Mrs. F.S. Richards, and thus he controls incompetent assistant has been forced upon the sewing department, where she is not needed, in * ** * The last legislature made an hard row of stumps. Tannerites. This united the two in a common cause, Hansen always aims to find out what is expected of him and, in a way, hedoesit. In a pinch Tanner is ever able to count on his favors gracefully. And in the reward of merit President Tanner never lost sight of himself. He has a hand on the boarding-house and a hand in everything else. His nephew, a handsome yeung gentleman who picked up a smattering of German while on his mission, has been duly installed in a chair of modern languages. An : * that his resignation the order to find a sinecuré for another protegee. ~~ his sectarian control, personalities, family influence and church aristocracy, then that college is in a or religion. ‘Tanner was always sure of Graham. But Merrill was somewhat headstrong at times. He didn’t feel under any particular obligation to Tanner because he had two boys in the faculty, as he believed they were capable and were there on their merits. So it was necessary to excite the prejudice and suspicions of Merrill by reporting names of twoof President Geo. Q. Cannon’s child- offspring of Every one knows that John C. Graham is an intense partisan, that he questions the right of any one to live who differs from him in politics ren, one of President Joseph F. Smith’s daughters an reason * fluences to which he owes his position and not altogether ungrateful, there can be noquestion; the personnel of the faculty now includes the furnish the tution of learning, but when it is accompanied by trustee. of the in- and two of Apostle M. W. Merrill’ssons. not counselor, a man in all other respects He was peculiarly fortunate in having a relative and friends who were not averse to taking counsel the to please the deposed seeretary. With the husband this was a business transaction; with Tanner it was another story and it secured the support of another succession was a matter of secondary consideration and went to Tanner through other intluences. on meeting owe the right man, so the place was turned over to Joseph E. Wilson, stake clerk and bishop’s President of certain church officials for which it was deemed necessary to depose board Hyde was ousted for two reasons: President Tanner was not absolutely sure of his blind obedience, and he wasn’t fortunate enough to Paul, who not only enjoyed the enmity of Secretary Hammond, last the husband of one of the local trustees, who didn’t want Hyde out so much as he wanted Wilson in. Hyde was a careful, capable, courteous official. He was a Democrat, In fact, it is pretty well known that he refused to lend himself te the conspiracy against Paul unless * assured of the emoluments of both positions. * 2 + Partisan politics wasn’t as much interested in Tanner’s appointment as many believed at the time. The present board of trustees was selected,’ primarily at the ARGUS. or that he is a relation of Tanner’s, in order to get a position NANTNE ‘‘ What bait do you use,” said a Saint tothe Devil, — ‘When you fish where the souls of men abound?”’ ‘‘ Well, for special tastes,’’ said the King of Evil, -‘* Gold and Fame are the best I’ve found.”’ ** But for common use?) asked the Saint. Said the Demon, ; ‘‘I angle for man, ‘‘ Ah then”’ not men, And a thing I hate Is to change my bait, Sol fish with a woman the whole year round.” —John Boyle O’ Reilly. ee AN OGDEN OPINION. Ogden is having a round with the social and sporting evil. The Switch refers to the reform movement in this city, saying: ‘‘ The great ob- ject, however, is the abolition of the social evil; to clear the city of houses of prostitution. Some years ago Salt Lake was suffering from one of these spasmodic attacks of morality shortly before an election. The police, driven desperate by the censure showered upon them, began a cru- sade against vice, and actually did close up every known house of prostitution in the city, and the inmates were driven cut and seattered to the four winds of heaven. After election was over the re- formers set up another howl, in which they were joined by all the decent people in the community, and the startling fact was proclaimed that fallen women were plying their trade in all quarters of streets. The the city, police, and even yielding on the to the public popular clamor again, began arresting the poor creatures wholesale, and soon the jail was full. But they couldn’t stay in jail forever, they couldn’t be killed off, and before the year passed away they had drifted back to their old haunts, the houses were open and peace reigned once more. But what good came of it all? Absolutely none. The only result achieved was to impose additional hardships and suffering on a class that, of all God’s creatures, are most to be pitied.” Subscribe for Tor Arqus. |