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Show TO ygUSQUTAH, "JFp cuaot Uojf fhj first frfi days of 1894 to pass away, without speaking f rtlj fl4 frarjkly to the youth of this fairest of all the beautiful valleys of Utah. We see them come and go as a tififljjf athletes in their physique; as iWMttJj JTJM In their freedom, and as 'strong in their love of horsemanship as the Arabian. They are manifestly the children pf ha highesj and best of climatic oondjqnB. In our brief period of objeryjtjpn we judge that we have seen i&r sggcimens of our future senators, here in Provo, as Provo is an Wis. It is not possible to take a bird' eyp ; View of the reclaimed acreage of Uah j farm, industries the thousands pf comfortable homesteads, and especially to take such a view in the light of one brief period of fifty years, and not candidly own that an unparalleled work has been accomplished on what may be called the ground plane of state growth. It hag been the work of indomitable in-domitable courage, practical' faith in the goodness of the very make of things. It has been a work that has demanded sxtriqn o,f mfcnujl force ajijd in-genuljy. in-genuljy. il hoPf fcf) the pioneers, of 1847. "pproing' brpsji, killing spaces id ifijPJf rSCVi & nowatrjpkts phrase that rounds a . sentence in the mouths of younger blood, but thirty yHrs fp 1 wy thy daily work of every marj in Utah. The fruits of such labor rg bw freely enonch enjoyei alike by the young Mormon, the Jew &Qd the gentile, go the foundation' hag beq laid, and fiolidlj laid. The tallage o forrir-jal forrir-jal expjerienceB has hg n png, varjqus and eventful. Topbaq tbe fiupe: the nebulous conditjqn'pf tbQ ner state-world, was painfully continuous, but at last the inherjnj briUnqy ol democratic forcesfocused the scattered elements and now the glory and possible pos-sible greatneis of etetehood shines forth. "It is for young Utah to say how' long, how widely, and how potently U;eeteteDi L'taUeh&mUme, its first great founder and leader, Brigham Young, was a democrat. The young statesman who has just won to his brow the wreath of an-immortal tri-tirnph,, tri-tirnph,, is a democrat, .nij"?! genuine hom manufacture. ?H P?int bere J? no' V? PS66 i tb cUlm of party triumph, aa bril-. liant a victory will take its historic niche in the great national temple of Amcjan, fpJQ an,d wijl exjErcise its continuousli. educative influence for IjQod.- Yif earnestly aim to SDeak a good "word for the future welfare of the state of Utah, as, well to the hear- icg c,t yoajn ruJUUcaps as W yobBf democrats. "There are lines of action i on which, the, two partieB will and" must blend their forces for the promotion of the broadest and very bjettiatexesta .at the, ntote. We. can " Ijt express our intention by making use of the batue cry of a celebrated parlimentary fcero who reiterated the purpose i me&sjoxft by the, r ectel eociatejii etocateUI We want tie young men of Utah to educate themselves for their life wo rk. If there be a practical valu in. the study of history it is surely to teach, or to show how best to attain the highest national good with the least amount of evil friction accordingly history, ancient, an-cient, modern and current history, al ways has and always will form an in-tegrai in-tegrai part of educational stateaman-ft stateaman-ft k feW JPS iua)irror ifeere grtit drama of human life is seen X reflected. Under our present urgency we can but very briefly refer to the supreme interest of current history the. history of our own times'. How pregnant with deepest s ignificiance, in the old world and in the new. The terrific conflict between capital and labor the threatening dangers of socialism, social-ism, nihilism and of anarchism. All point to the unquestionable existence exis-tence of certain social and national evils which are virulent enough to vitiate the life of any commnnity, M not vrjsely eradicated, Thank Heaven many pf these evils are not present in Utah to any appreciable extent; for this most happy and thankful reason our young Utah statesmen have before them the happier work of constructive political science,and if they study earnestly earn-estly and intelligently the great social problems that in the rest of the world are pressing for solution, they will all the ' better be prepared to be in truth and in deed, Saviors, not only in Zion so called, but on the wider plane of the world-life. We are bold to affirm that there never was in past times a more glorious glori-ous opportunity for the yoang states men of any community, than the one that now lies before the "boys" of Utah. Some are already in the field, giving evidence of senatorial capacities capaci-ties of highest order others are being educated, not a few we trust, right here in Provo. The work tp be dflne is of such a supreme and urgent char-aper char-aper that wa, most thankfully and heartily appreciate the work C;f higher culture that is going on in the B. Y. academy. As far as we can, at the present judge, the staff of the professors profess-ors there are efficient men, thoroughly in earnest, and are indeed earning all that is paid them for their work. And right here we will say once for all, bavin? beep approached pn the subject sub-ject of high salaries for teachers and professors, that we entirely agree with the clan of giving the teaching pror are doing the work that is o last the longest and will exercise the widest influence in-fluence for the future good of Utah. Parsimony here is equally childish and foolish, and betrays the utter wapt of public spirit. In fact we are informed that notwithstanding the stupidly blat ant howl and greed of the Enquirer on thja Question, the Prpvq "teachers are not nearly so wgll paid t those in Ogden and Salt Lake, in fact in all the cqunty schools the teachers are better paid than in Provo, and certainly the few professors we have of university qualifications, and who are reajly doing good university work are far belovy in they: pay to what such men get east and west and everywhere, where the nature of their work is understood ; let us not therefore hear any more of this miserable harping and carping of narrow-minded,' but frightfully Shortsighted, would be public benefactors. Muft not Provo furnish her fair per centags of future statesmen, whether as. natives pf this fair city or as "boys" educated here? Certaintly Bhe ougBt and must and will doubtless do so, but only ill proportion as she it generously supported in her educational policy. W want the best in this line of public work, this being granted, we want our young men of this city, of this county and of the whole of Utah to rise up witfe dignjty and earnestness of purpose pur-pose s.n.d se$ to wprk to prepare themselves them-selves for a grand future. |