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Show SEE TO THE SCHOOL ELECTION. 1 Lj V ' Some good men have been announced as can- ,r 4 Sj didates for school trustees, such men as J. H. 'nj h ft fjfl Brown of the Brown, Terry & Woodruff company, p) If,' h fjH Mr. J. C. Cheesman, Thomas Homer, Judge W. A. 1 ! fefM Sherman, Thomas Weir and others. Gentiles '"I fif V nM should see to the nominations in every district, !!'! j rJH see that the very best material possible is nomi- fc j kH nated, and then work for the election of Gentiles I $ B up to and through election day. They may be de- i VJ!H feated, but It is right to make the best fight they Llr ft flllH can and if possible hold the schools under Gentile ,R j&lif control, for it will be a blow to the best interests h .1 'J$H of the city, to both Mormons and Gentiles, when yftlnM the schools pass under Mormon control. This is j$ i'L J11JH not saying that there are not plenty of Mormons n f VflH who, if left to themselves, would make good o m J?lB school trustees, but with a Mormon board, the f j t:1B business would be directed from the office of the I !Jfl First Presidency and there is no one in that of- $ k ?"fiH fice who by his acquirements, experience or train- 'I'itkJIiH ing could make a competent trustee. It may be 4 ''iffW said that it is ungenerous to urge such a division L'j? v jf9 of the people on school matters. But it is nota '? StSM question of courtesy, but of self-preservation and P fM the preservation of the schools, the keeping of i b lff& them on the high plane where the old Liberals j JiH placed them. The high church officials have 'i ItllH broken every pledge that they made to the peo- 5 'J nHB pie of Utah and to the President and Congress of I ,j " f H the United States, every pledge through which 1 i ffl Statehood was granted to Utah; their present as- ' 1 ' ,J 9 sertions that they are not and have not been in it jffH politics are but adding insult to perfidy, and in "Ji 1 tH9 the election of school trustees the only thought !$ iliH which Gentiles should entertain toward them 'II'IIIIm should be that they are public enemies. Their rj ' t IH hand was abundantly shown in school matters, M ,llHi when, after Mr. M. H. Walker was fairly nomi- I 'ipPH nated by Mormons and Gentiles in primary con- 1 'IX'SH vention, an independent Mormon candidate was iff 49 nominated by the dictation of the president of 1'IB this stake, and every Mormon in the precinct was ill W fUM instructed to vote for him. That was notice I ''1h9 enough, but after what has happened in Utah and 1 i jf fj&fl southern Idaho during the past three months, if I'l'if jjfflB any Gentile is longer fooled or deceived regarding ' f' JHB the intentions of the church authorities, or the I i JSH obedience to those authorities on the part of tho ' J JBB Mormon people, then such a Gentile wants to be U f wU fooled or deceived. Much as thousands of Mor- J flHi mons would regret to see the work which the old ti li,U Liberals did for tho schools undone, still under 111 IfUBM orders they will vote to have it done if so in- '1;1H structed (or "requested") to do so by their church ft if WM authorities. When Statehood was granted, the I flBI Gentiles the war being ended went to work in jfilJWH good faith to have all the old differences forgot- 1 IH ten and to build up in good faith an American T j lffl State. People will remember the delicious calm ll'SH that came and lasted for two years. But the IflNfffil chiefs of the great political and commercial ma- lllil chine called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- f j!f BH day Saints, could not bear to see their followers lj HI living like free American citizens. They began by i"jJH ordering men who had been in polygamy, but who , ilHfl had separated from their plural wives, to live HHHI their religion. Then came the nomination and HHi election of B. H. Roberts; then the selling of a 'IflM United States Senatorshlp for money by the head iKHH of the church, and this year the shameful dicta) HRHfl tion of the church in the election of a Legislature HHiH 3 f tBBM B H to vote for an apostle for Senator. There have B M been many other lesser manifestations of the B M same spirit and hence Gentiles have no longer B m any right to be deceived. The control of the B nj ( schools is what the church wants next and Gen- B K tiles will be criminally negligent if they do not B J strain every nerve to hold them if possible under B Gentile control. |