Show THE ONE UNTENABLE COURSE This demand of the Tribune fc for r partisan control of ot the public schools Is b by no DO means indorsed 1 by bytho y tho best men and women In the American part party Scores of ot them men an and ant t women omen who havo been firm firm in their adherence to the prIncIples o of th the party who have havo believed c it had a mission did not at all approve and do not now no the Tribune campaign for the capture of tho schools They would gladly have bao Joined their neighbors in getting a partisan non ticket The They strongly deprecated the political crusade Thc They knew know it meant deterioration tion in school work the abasement of school gov gO gov- gov to the level of ward politics the absolute despotism of the Inner circle cIrcle tim men who fastened this motto on the American party Neither the tho mayor nor the head of any department department depart depart- ment merit of the city government nor the city council is responsible to the people of ot this city for the faithful faithful faith faith- ful ul and honest management and Ind conduct of its affa affairs Ire And because the they were better belter citizens cItizen than are aro tho makers of the thc Tribune the they advised against I Ia a course at once so impolitic and so unworthy But Nelson tho the one man who can be bo depended 1 on to edit the Tribune along tho the lines Jines laid down downin t tin in tho the Tom Kearns policy got sot the maggot of office in his ossifying brain and brain and awa away went the Tribune une f after the schools Ho wanted to bo ho school trustee t tHe He had an nn ambition to hold office again Time was e ewhen when he could do it it Time was when lIe he did lid get I j l jinto lInto into office Also Aso time lime wa was when ho was l kicked I out by his fellow citizens the citizens-the the men who found how unfitted he was for an any task having for its object the betterment of anything Naturally a n. grouch habit had increased his tendency until be he was easily the most unpleasant creature in ill the whole valle valley of the Great Salt Lako Luke At the same time lime his position as ns editor o ot of a u paper that adopted its fc owners owner's ner s policy o ot of blackmail and Intimidation won von for him the semblance of a consideration to which no DO one pretended for a moment he was s as entitled Only last week a number of or the tho members of the school board hoard called at the office of or the Tribune and explained every point against which the tho Implacable grouch was railing and he be admitted ho was wrong aut and they were right And the ne next t morning the Tribune came camo out with an nn even stronger tirade against the present mana management of the tho city schools Sundays Sunday's particular grouch takes the semblance of an attack on Former President of tho the board who has just been d by the people of his precinct Republicans and D Democrats together for re le The Thc charge Is that Mr Is committed com corn to the policy of putting Utah teachers into tho the schools as rapidly as they can be prepared for It Utah Is paying thousands of at dollars every year for lor the normal schools Every effort is making hero here to develop teaching ability That is and always has bas been one of ot the alms aims of tho state state state-as as asit it of la-of every state e so 50 far as Information e extends But It by no means follows that Mr l Moyle 1 wants to throw out present efficient teachers That Is I what ho Is 15 accused of b by tho tim fatuous grouch of or the Tribune What folly it is to make make- such charges Nr 11 1 is a n Democrat and we take lako the greatest pleasure in life beating him to a frazzle in an any contest whore where partisanship can properly Dut Bu there has bas been een no day when v we will deny that bis h b his he is js a good citizen at an honest man a capable school I trustee And therefore we wo see no objection to hi I r re Tho The people of or his neighborhood have ban 3 nominated him and he will wUl be a strong factor Ii In Inthe Inthe 1 the future growth of the schools The Tribune a grouch sots sets up Its usual man of straw and tries trie S Sto to kick its ita head bead off orr It rails through a column c of f doddering Idiocy In which Mr Ir roe is charged charge d with trying to turn the public schools of at Salt Lakeover Lake Lak Lakeover e over to the control of the everlasting hierarch Well Wel I they are In no more danger of being turned over overto overto r to the tho Mormon church than the they are arc of being bein g turned turne over or to the old grouch of the Tribune And nd that hat Is fa strong language There are arc very many competent teachers now in the schools who have havo come corne here hero from other states stat ca They came carne because they wore were competent and got better pay pa here herc than they could there They havo hao earned their salaries salaries bigger bigger than those where they came from They are honored for their part in the work of improving the schools They The arc not going to be thrown out No one wants to throw them out So long as they continue the efficiency that has marked their service In the past they the arc as sure suro of or work in these schools as they thu could be bo any an place on earth Besides they aro are citizens of or Utah They arc are of our municipal family They arc are a part or of tho state stale Some have bave remained teachers Some arc are Some have quit the tho work worl for other interests inter Some have hac married and left school schoolwork schoolwork schoolwork work altogether And wherever they arc nrc they know this It will be ho the policy of ot every school board in the nation to get good good teachers Every Ever school board oard 1 Is looking for teachers and getting them from other towns to 8 from other states When they make good bood they the stay When they the dont don't they go That is and will be the tho rule here bere Salt Lako will look 1001 for teachers from every part of ot the nation and will wUl gladly engage them when better material mat can be secured for the tile tame same money moncy from that than can be produced here But Dut If you ou think Salt Lake Lako is going to hire teachers from abroad when it can get bet Just aa as good I I I L i i iL I I J f Jf lr J 2 Jk t. t or better beLter teachers from Utah you are foolish We of the Iho state are arc trying to develop teachers To that end we are spending pu public Jfe mone money The They have re to bo ho good to lo get Into the schools and aud they have hae to keep good to stay there thero But Dut after aner we train a teacher we are not going to turn her down dO downIn In preference to a foreign n teacher Just because the tho latter is foreign Not lot much And that same samo old Mormon bugaboo that sleeps and nud walks walk with the grouchy sergeant of the Tribune the Tribune the editor who calls himself a n colonel colone though ho lie never was one is one is not a menace hero at all nIl Teachers are arc not hired because the they are Mor Mor- mons They are ale hired for their ab ability III t to teach tench It happens that over oyer eighty per cent of ot the tho teaching teach In ing force toree of or the thc Salt Lake Lale schools aro non That doesn't look like a hierarchal capture We WC sal said the old grouch used to be bo president of tho the school board Ho lie did But Dut of or course the folly foUy of that choice should not be bc laid u up against tho tim city since he was s as forced Corcell out of the tho service which he had hoc to the best of his ability crippled and harmed He lie was pr president of or the bou board And while whilo he was there thele the tho teachers got about a third of or the total expenditures for the thc schools schools and and that doesn't include tho building fund In Ta the year 3 3 tho tito total expenditures were Ol OO The teachers received In 1907 OS the thc total expenditures were and the teachers received recel 3 or more than half That Thai Is the difference In favor fin of or the teachers when Old Grouch doesn't occupy u t place on the school board When hen ho was as on the tho school board hoard the lie teachers' teachers I 1 t f salaries were cut ten per cent In the tho present year car carthe the tho salaries have been raised And It was not done for Cor campaign purposes but at tho the May In meeting mouths months before the campaign opened and amI at tho the very cry first moment when it was known to the thc board that the Increase would be possible The legislature of four years ears ago passe passed a law lawgivIng lawgiving lawgiving giving one extra mill for the benefit of or increased salaries for the teachers and Old Grouch now and then editor of the Tribune appeared before the senate committee and fought the Increase fought the measure which would result in giving gh better pay to the teachers An And to his bis influence Is attributed at the veto eto of the governor Two years cars later in 1907 the tho legislature again enacted a si law Jaw giving an Increase TIllS THIS TI TIME IE OF 1 TWO VO MILLS And Governor Cutler signed signet tho the bill and it Is now a law Jaw and because of It tim the pay of the thc teachers of Salt Lake Is being raised Wo We do not believe beHave anyone In the tho American party part except the discredited Tribune ulle erow crowd wants to make malee this political fight for the schools That collection of ot live ll only by strife the abuse of their neighbors the defamation of their city the thc Imputing of oC wr wrong ng motives mothes to better men than themselves The best people of their party part would woul havo h ave gladly joined in the partisan non movement for or the control of or the schools And In opposing that hat t sensible and patriotic plan the tho has ha's embarked on the dreariest tho the most Insane and east least defensible course of all Its history Which Is going some |