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Show I Gentile Control of School. H 'Bogus Slogan of American 'Party 'Polygamist JVfominee H County Finance fl The argument in favor of its misguided policy V with which the member of the American party B are most diligent is that Church influence men B aoes the control by the Mormons of the public H -schools. The Gentile women are importuned with H particular vehemence to vote the American ticket H on that account. Of course,' the voter la not in- m formed that a school election is not involved in ' the present campaign or that of th total number 1 of teaohers employed in the local public sqhools H fully 80 per cent are Gentiles. All such puerile m thunder would be useless if the real facts were psssj m made known. M From their chief orators to their ward heelers, B women have been given the impression that the mm "school question," a designation which is the H hyperbole of ambiguity, is one of the main issues H and the primal occasion for the formation of the m American party. H But all of these silly anti-election protestations H ape inado preposterous by the fact that the noml- m ,nee of the party for State Superintendent of Pub- lie Instruction is a faithful Mormon, and his elec- H tion would mean the placing of the public schools H of the state in ecclesiastical control. H ProfoBSor Frank R. Christensen of Ogden was H made the Revenge Society's nominee for that H position, after Mr. I. N. Smith of Cache county H had politely but firmly declined to be placed on H the altar as a "patriotic" burnt offering for the H position. H In his letter accepting the nomination, Mr. H Christensen made the following frank avowal: B "I belong to the Mormon Church and have faith B in its teachings as given by its revelators, and as H accepted by the Church, and I would not recede H from my faith for any mere political -consideration H nor for any other earthly cause now known to me." H Gentiles can form some idea from the above H statement of the sincerity of the Tribune's slogan H of "Gentile control of rubllc schools." The sham H and poltroonery of the whole American affair is H so grotesque as to be purely farcical were it not H for the fact that it threatens to deliver the county H and state over to the Democrats and to eleot the H Parker and Davis electors. But in the face of Mr. H Christensen's unequivocal statement of allegiance H to the Mormon chuYch and its teaching's, the H American party's plea about Gentile control of B public schools must be set down as the most infan- B tile and absurd of this highly ludicrous propa- B ganda. |
