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Show THE SCHOOL TRUSTEES. So soon as the result of the election was "known, we warned the people of this city that the next Sniggle of the Mormon church would be to get control of the schools for the three-fold purpose of drawing all the revenues of the schools to Morton Mor-ton teachers and the Mormon church; to debase the public schools to the level where they were up to the time when the Liberals obtained control, d to so emasculate the high school that It would "ther cease to exist or would cease to interfere with the preparatory schools of the University and Mormon colleges, and offered the advice that Gentiles Gen-tiles should in every precinct put first-class candidates candi-dates in the field and vote only for Gentiles at the school election. Only once before have the saints showed their hands openly In school elections, since the transformation wrought when the Liberals Lib-erals gained control of the city. That was in the effort to defeat Mr. Walker four years ago, but now we see the highest officers of the church in the field rustling for candidates on the single ground that they are Mormons, entirely regardless regard-less of their fitness for the place, and using the lying ly-ing assertion that if the Gentiles get control of the schools, all Mormon teachers will be discharged. dis-charged. This is utterly false and serves no public purpose pur-pose except to give Gentiles new notice that the schools under Mormon control would no more have a Gentile teacher than they did when the same power controlled the schools before, and when not one Gentile teacher, no matter what might have been his or her qualifications could get a situation sit-uation except something was needed that no Mormon Mor-mon could teach. In the Third municipal ward there was a plan, made up by the friends of the public schools, Mormon Mor-mon and Gentile, to agree upon a live, competent man for trustee. The question of creed was not being considered, only worthiness for tho place was desired, when suddenly Apostle John Henry Smith, Bishop Emery and Bishop Beatty appeared on the scene and said that only W. J. Newman was to be considered and made it a direct church fight for control. If the fight is any less pronounced pro-nounced in any other precinct it will be only a matter of policy, the Mormon voters will be instructed in-structed in the same way and this may be safely assumed; every Mormon will vote for only Mormon Mor-mon trustees, and the Gentile who may be beguiled into voting for a Mormon will wittingly or unwittingly unwit-tingly be voting to have the schools of Salt Lake reduced to the vassalage of the Mormon church will vote to have them under the direct control of Joseph F. Smith and his counsellors. It must be understood that Mormons will have to vote as they are instructed against their absolute knowledge knowl-edge that they are aiming a fatal blow at the excellence ex-cellence of the schools, but they cannot help it. Their minds and souls are dominated by their superstitious fears and they cannot help themselves. them-selves. The Gentile who will help in this degradation degra-dation is a coward, sneak and quasi traitor to native na-tive land. |