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Show B.S 18 ' THE SAINTS AND THL PUBLIC SCHOOLS. flw 1 n Thursday morning the Tribune put out HBHU j an editorial deploring the part that election re- BslilSl I sentments shoifld find expression in the Board HKSpfH I of Education, deploring that despotism should Rflf fl S make its appearance in that Board and that it Bm 1 I should all come from a member of the Board BB i H 1 wbo s aso a Prfessor in the State University. HkL wB I Tliere was more of the same rot. The Herald was IBliiilll ! more cowardly still. Both the morning journals BK HHraMHiES' know the facts and both for their own reasons suppressed them. The determination of the Mormons to gain absolute control of the public schools and to re-duco re-duco them to a point where they will be but tools of the Church and be mado absolutely subordinate sub-ordinate to the higher Mormon schools including the University, has been as clear as the sunlight for yeirs. When the Mormons rallied to a man and woman to elect this same Professor Cum-mings Cum-mings the Tribune, then under another administration, adminis-tration, pointed out that the rally meant that it was understood that Cummings, if elected, would be but a creature to carry out the will of the Mormon members of the board as directed, by the Church. We think every test vote that he has cast since his election has confirmed that estimate esti-mate of him. Then when he springs a brother-in-law for an important office, a man unknown to every other member of the board and the whole Mormon contingent in the board support him, the fact itself is prima facie evidence of a put-up job, and it means that the man Judd will be as much a servant of that majority as Cummings always has been. It will go on until every member is a Mormon, every teacher a Mormon, until the schools will be again teaching the geography of what is now Brazil as settled by Maroni in the seventh century, and Gentiles will have to send their children away from home or to the sectarian schools to gain the rudiments of a common English Eng-lish education. The trick of electing Judd was first carried through in secret caucus, none but Mormons being present, except Cummings, who demanded the place for his brother-in-law. Though not one knew the man they did not dare turn him down, Cummings had been so faithful to them, and without him they would not have a majority on the board. One member cried when he voted for Judd, but said he must do his duty. That meant he must obey orders from the corner of Brigham and State street. The regular tithing of the teachers would be $26,000 a year. There will be no let up until that is secured to the church, and the schools are utterly demoralized by church hostility and church dictation. |