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Show THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. If the school'board will resign we believe that a now board can be appointed that with the means at hand can manage to keep the schools running the usual time. The public, at least tho Gentile public, believes that the purpose Is through one or another plan to degenerate the schools to the level of 188J) when "teachers" were employed at $25.00 per month, giving $2.50 of that amount to the church, when many of them could not read or write a sentence correctly to save their lives and when the most accomplished teacher in the world could not have obtained a situation to teach unless first declaring tho belief be-lief that Joseph Smith was a prophet. Tho taxes are now up to the limt and still we are assured that tho schools must lse a month of their term because of want of funds. Tho public pub-lic believes there has been gross extravagance" or direct stealing and that the schools should run the regular term. |