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Show TO BE REMEMBERED. In voting for school trustees some things should be remembered by Gentiles and Mormons alike. The public schools of Utah were under exclusive Mormon management for forty years. At the end of that time there was not one decent public school structure in Utah; not one to meet any modern requirement. There was no high school. Of the teachers not one-third were qualified for the work in hand. Compared with the schools of all the surrounding States and Territories those of Utah were a disgrace. After the Gentiles were paying more than half the taxes of Salt Lake City, par-nts par-nts were forced to send their children to the denomination de-nomination schools, the public schools were so utterly worthless, and the places called school-houses school-houses were so uncomfortable, unhealthy and so lacking in every convenience and necessity. It was not through poverty that such a state of shame existed. There was money enough to provide comfortable com-fortable schoolrooms and to pay competent teachers. teach-ers. Then in the schools more Mormonism than mathematics was taught. The thought with the chiefs of the church was that for the masses a smattering knowledge of the elementary branches was all that was needed, while for the elect, the children of the priestly aristocracy could attend the higher church schools. . .- When the change came there- was a transfer, mation. New structures were erected, 'the schools were placed upon a business and educational basis-competent basis-competent teachers were employed and Utah public schools were brought up abreast of the schools o( other States. There is a purpose to relegate the schools back to what they were in the early '80s. One apostle and several bishops are out working to that end, every "teacher" will be engaged in the same vaj until the polls close on election day. The Mormon people should remember the above facts when they go to vote. In any other country on earth the thought of what would be to the best interest of the children would control. It will not here. The mass of saints will vote as directed. Let Gentiles do what they can to arrest and at least put off the pending calamity. Our schools and schoolhouses have been a wonderful advertisement adver-tisement for this city. Let us all strive to continue them p.s such. |