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Show SOME OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF ATTENTION I "Tho liouble with our state educational educa-tional institutions is that local differences differ-ences and Jealousies are allowed to enter them. The public should remember re-member that the University of Utah is a state Institution and not a Salt Lake count voncjthat the Agricultural college belongs to the state and not to Cache count v."- Truth. And heie tho peopleof Cache county ' jjtgree with Truth. The people of "Jfjpacho county do not regard tho A. C. of U. as other than a state Institution and in protecting this Institution of, by and for the people against the onslaught on-slaught of those who would sacrifice the people for personal gains, who would build up an Institution for tho the classes at the expense of that school for the masses, the peoplo ot . Cache county aie but living up to a trust imposed upon them. It Is to the Interest of tho Salt Lake people te create tho Impression If possible, that Logan and Cache county people arc fighting for tho col-lejjo col-lejjo for purely local reasons, but let tho peoplo of the State of Utah recognize recog-nize the fart that the people of Cache know most about the college situation, situa-tion, and knowing most about it are cognlant of the terrific effort to rob the people of their only school. The people of Cache county do have a personal per-sonal Interest In the Agricultural College, Just as Salt Lake has In tho State Capital, as Provo has In Its Insane In-sane asylum, asOgden does In her In-( In-( dustrlal school and deaf and dumb asylum, but It has no more. Tho Agricultural College was given to wLr Logan and Cache county to havo hnd gy hold in trust, to guard, protect and nurtuie, and certainly there was a time when It did not need piotection. The school was given us only because It, was thought that It would never amount to anything, but now that under a progressive administration It has grown Into an institution unexcelled unex-celled In the State of Utah, the people peo-ple who dish out favois In this State want to reclaim it as their own not that it may giovv and become of greater great-er worth to the common peopleof this State, but that it may be killed. They propose to sacrifice this Institution Institu-tion for the reason that it seems to conlllct with ttie growth ot another school that Is their idol and pet, a school that Is nplther of, by, nor for the whole people. If the peoplo of Utah will refuse to accept newspaper assertions to the contrary and will examine Into the matter themselves they will find that the people of Logan and Cache county arc fighting their tight, and standing the brunt of battle not for selfish interests alone but that one of the greatest Institutions of this State may not be crippled and finally strangled strangl-ed to death. If, as "Truth" says, the people of Salt Lake want the Agricultural College Col-lege to remain In Logan why did Salt Lake people send a telegram to Washington Wash-ington city during tho recent light asking whether the Government appropriation ap-propriation to tho Collego would be. withdrawn In case tho collego was located lo-cated In Salt Lake? Such a telegram was sent and within three hours of this writing, the writer saw a copy ot that telegiam. Why did Richard Young say, "Wo will light you to the death?" Why aie hundreds In Salt Lake city resentful today because Senators Smoot and Sutherland and Representative Howell advised against consolidation? Why does Salt Lake county want an experimental farm so badly? The people of this State must rccognle the fact that great foiccs are at work in Salt Lake City to remove re-move the A. C. of U. theic, and that that move means its ultimate death. It Is the history that agricultural colleges col-leges in the United States are succes-fill succes-fill and of worth to tho people only when run Independently of the Stato University and far enough away from It to be from under that institution's influence. These are facts and the people of this State whose Institution tho A. C. of U. Is should not permit enemies of tho college to hoodwink them. It Mr. Widtsoe had control of the Agricultural college, but very little friction, if any, would exist between that Institution and the State University. Univer-sity. Truth. The people of this stale who have followed tho light waged against tho A. C. ot U. know that the removal ot friction on the part of the University can come only with the killing of this great school of the peoplo by Its ultimate ulti-mate removal to Salt Lake city. Assuming that the writer of tho above knows Mr. Wldtsoe's sympathies, then wo must take It that In order to remove re-move this friction Mr. Widtsoe as head of the A. C. of U. would play Into In-to tho Unlverlty.s hands vv Ith tho Idea of the ultimate icmoval of tho college to the State capital. This Is the only logical deduction from the above. Wo regret to believe this of Mr Widtsoe, Wid-tsoe, but theic appears no reason to doubt that tho writer for Truth was speaking authoritatively. Tiuth sas Tiik Looan Rki-uhli-can Is Pies. Kerr's peisonal organ, and had the writer of that article (who Is a Logan man) said that this paper is not HIS peisonal organ and that therein lies his contention, he would have told more truth. Tiik Looan Rki'uhlican IS President Kerr's organ Just so far as he Is right, Just so far as Ills cause Is a Just one, and It Is his organ that far unsolicited. Tiik Rki-uhlican Is the organ of any and every Just cause, ana Is not the organ of any man whose cause Is founded on personal grievances or personal political gains at the sacrl-lice sacrl-lice of honor and truth. Tiik Rki-uhlican Is the organ of what It believes to bo right, and points (as docs Mr. Roberts) to it past lecord. TiikRk-i-uilican may have made mistakes In the past but they have been ot a clear conscience and an honorable Intent; Tiik Rki-uhlican may make mistakes in tho future but they will be no less honorably made. However, Tiik Rki-uhlican will never make tho mistake mis-take of sacrillclng Its honor for political gain, nor Its right to free speech that unholy Interests may be advanced. Tiik Rki-uhlican can not view tho Journal's arraignment of Hon. Joseph Uovvcll ns anything less than drastlo and calculated to injure, the cause for which It lights lather than assist It. The Journal's columns would Indicate that Mr. Howell Is leponslblo for all tho piosent dltllcu'ly at the college, that he Is the Instigator and backbone of all tho contention, and that he could stop the picscnt difficulty If ho would. Mr. Howell is in nowise re-ponslblc re-ponslblc for the difficulty and certainly certain-ly Is not in that position where his word would settle the differences that exist, Mr Howell regards the collego and Pics. Keir as separate quantities and believes that tho futuro success and giowth of the collego Is not dependent de-pendent wholly on Mr. Kerr. Ho finds thai the Stato Administration and ltssympathicrs, who unquestionably unquestion-ably contiol In this state at this time, arc antagonistic to Keir, and believes that under the circumstances Mr. Kerr's dismissal means more for the futuro success of the college than his retention. As to his friendship for the college, Tiik Rki-uhlican cannot doubt Hon. Joseph Howell's position. He hxs shown so frequently his friendliness friend-liness for the Institution, and It was he who urged and secured the names of Senators Smoot and Sutherland to a telegram to tho recent legislative body advising against consolidation. Tiik Rki-uhlican hcaitlly disagrees with Mr. Howell's stand In this matter mat-ter and believes thatevcry man should stand out against any Inlluenco In this college matter that seems to bo of the "off-color" kind, but Mr. Howell re-gards re-gards ' rinht" In this matter as tho future of the A.C., and In his mind at least tho future of that Institution Is dependent on its being In harmony 'M with the Stato administration. Tiik M Rki-uiilioan believes that the differ- M enecs that exist aro personal, the re- M suit of misunderstanding and mlsrcp- H reseutatlnu, and that the position of M the administration and Its sympathl.- jH ers can be modllled If the gentlemen M arc open to conviction. Mr. Howell M docs not sec It that way, and from his M viewpoint he probably finds sufficient M giounds tosustaln him. Tiik Rki-uii- M moan has urged conservative cxprcs- M slon and honest, fair-minded consider- M atlon of the present difficulty rather ' M than strong statements and censure ot M men whose views may not coincide H with our own. Let us all reason to- M gcther and arrive at as near the right M conclusion as possible. M t I The Looan RKfunuoANstatcs that jH Representative Roberts is against Mr. Kerr. Wo aro pleased to hear this. '19 Mr. Roberts, while In tho legislature, H was looked upon as one of tho brain- H lest men of that body. Tho Agrlcul- H tural collego has no better or stronger jH friend. Mr. Roberts being against jH Mr. Kerr Is a guarantee that a chango H should bo made for the benefit ot tho jH college. It Is hard to tell which Rob- H cits thinks tho most of, his wlfo or jH the Agricultural college. "Truth." H 1 |