Show A SCHOOL OW OWN X W now that the legislature has refused to grant us a normal school it is worthwhile worth while talking up sonic some other project whereby this and surrounding counties may re receive educational facilities for the young people who are de barred from attending the overcrowded public schools we need not now give any reason why the bill appropriating for the establishment of a normal school in our county did not dot pass the council 1 I acutt heaby 0 opposition p in that body because many of ite its members were in favor of the old school law and thought that witta with a few amendments it was bet ter berthan than the new educational bill or rather tho the revised school law it was not so much because the council was opposed to our I 1 appropriation pria tion as it was because they did not approve th the new school law that left us without any any aid in the 1 desired direction many of the members expressed themselves 1 willing to aid us under other circum atances tt ances but it seems we were in bad oom company pany according to their verdict and hence we must bear the consequences probably it vias was aa as well that we I 1 did not receive what we asked for at least the people like tho the fix fox with the sour grapes can console themselves with thid thought but the question tiow now arises what shall we do something mur must be done to establish a high grade school in our county and now tinco the territory alas has refused any aid will it if not be as well for the church to establish one when we eay try the church wo we mean the people of the mormon church who are immediately concerned in the matter it might be dono done by optional taxation and it would not be a heavy financial i A task i mi wh when eh thus tilts t f acco accomplished m shed the people would have the satisfaction of knowing that they place teachers mit it who are not afraid to mention bod and the principles principle of life ife a and n 0 d truth that are dearer to the latter day saints than all the wealth of scientific learning without them beside besides this advantage vantage the mormons cormons Mor mons would not have to be twisted twitted d with the ibe unjust hu lii 1 of ot other assert that tbt ahey pay to educate ille the children of the saints the people arc are certainly able to do this and only a small of explanation is nece necessary seary to make this fact plain to them in a community where euch such a vast vast majority are roo of rione one beli eFAt is hardly feces necessary ary to tax a few grumblers grumbl ers who differ from them in religious opinion doing so is is only giving them a lever to work harm agai against nithe the majority Y A liberal paying a dollar anda half tax causes more genuine rum pup in a town caucus than a hundred meu of the people paying from 25 to 1 e eadi in es we know this from experience in meet 1 ina in in various various parts of the county and lio doubt all our readers cau can bear ua us out iu a this aseer asier tinn since I 1 then ahe the cormons mormons Mor mons pay ay the greater part of the taxes why not let them pay alcind be bd free frie we think this span lq doue at least in J 1 11 estabI rAt in g a art donnul al or high schoolen school in ln ou our r county f in rejecting the ille proposed p rop new aie w is chool law the council through their CG committee have substituted a n new e w ba 1 includes the most important changes incorporated in a the rejected bill if weare we are rightly informed one amendment to tho the school law authorizes any county to levy leyy k tax twe a majority of the taxpayers concurring to build a county school this provision is a good one and we hav d n not 0 t the ther least doubt that tha weber V eber county could erect ono one of th the 15 finest finett school build lusts in the Terri territory tozy were the peo pie asked to do so under euch cir ahe tb necessity of a high 48 school echol A ais i apparent to all the questin ques which now arises is is aich method shall bo be adopted we lve think tha that C arwe tee built a school of their own 1 it would prove tho the quoit lugat beneficial to t the people and be the most satisfactory all around |