Show THE DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL BUSINESS the salt lake tribune this morning publishes the following editorial we reproduce the same la ivull to show what a measureless the tribune Is the tribune says we once more ask that the authorities look into the affairs of the utah school for the deaf and dumb when a few days since an edition of the e school paper was suppressed because there was an editorial in it which referred kindly to certain teachers who had been retired the tribune on the face of the showing expressed the belief that there were sinister reasons ifor such a proceeding we are more and more convinced of that tact the more the matter ts pro toed and the position ot things today indicates that there has been a studied and continuous effort for three years past to oust prof frank M Met calt who organized the school and who tog carried it through to the present we have investigated a little and have found out enough to be safe in charging that teachers have been retained in the school who are totally unfitted for the place solely because tiey t are cormons mormons Mor mons and that the efficient teachers who have recently been notified that they would not be retained after the present term expires received that notice solely because they are non cormons mormons and that the purpose is 40 make the school f as thoroughly mormon as is the brigi ham young academy by a series of petty persecutions which culminated fe in at least covert throats prof met calt was at last compelled to resign his resignation to take effect june this was tor the purpose of giving the professorship and control of the school to one driggs whose general deputa alon makes it clear that he Is not fit to have such a place more for three tr years past though the selection of teachers under the law belongs to the superintendent the board a majority of which are cormons mormons Mor mons have usurped this authority which the law invents the superintendent and have against his protest retained potent teachers because they are mor mons and have discharged competent teachers because they are not mor mons this vitiates the design of the school and is a direct perversion of the letter and spirit of the law it seems clear that when we made the charge that the suppression of the edition containing the few of praise of nhe faithful teachers who have been notified that they will no longer be given places was an evl dence that an african was in the woodpile we were exactly right thai tried and accomplished teachers were to ibe dropped because they are gentiles and incompetent teachers t are to succeed them and tor no rea son except that they are cormons mormons Mor mons t As the matter stands a stealthy injustice has been perpetrated upon the state and a direct and grevious grev lous E wrong has been perpetrated on the dismissed teachers and upon prof Met calt if we were to say that the foregoing editorial from the tribune la a abare ibare baoe ne we would be telling the exact but in addition to that there is a cussed meanness attached to it which makes the tribunes action almost a y crime first of all there la but one mor mon teacher retained by the new In and that teacher Is arr whalen employed by the old superintendent in the the new who the tribune calls one driggs has retained the old corps of teachers except only two namely mr marshall abid miss walker and these two were replaced with mr ezra v henne of virginia and mr 0 G daniels of massachusetts both gentiles so it will toe seen that the new superintendent in has employed among all the teachers abut one mormon and that one has been in the school under the old superintendent or years now what of the tribunes charge that it has investigated and finds that unfit teachers are retained solely because they are cormons mormons Mor mons it htwe are any unfit teachers the old superintendent employed them because the two gentlemen from virgena and massachusetts the only two selected by the new superintendent carry the i very highest recommendations from their respective states and so tar as the suppression of tho little school paper is in question tho tribune is an wrong on that too in the first peace the tribune did not publish the exact editorial which pro lessor intended to run in the copy turned over by bupt supt to the tribune a few words were ted materially changed tho sense of the article we challenge the tribune to show that incompetent teachers will replace will protest louder than the standard it incompetent teachers are employed in the state schools the standard has no objection to an investigation by the state authorities in fact since the tribune has asked it the standard seconds the call and requests the governor to make the investigation vesti gation before june ath the day when bupt supt retires if abat Is done baere as BO doubt about the governor approving the action of taci board of trustees there has abeen some very dirty work going on por instance some time ago before prank M driess was even elected superintendent eastern papers announced that was to bs dismissed because he was NOT a mormon etc etc these little items have beon traced to mr Met calt it seems he feared that he would ibe removed or thought he ought to be removed and as the board of trustees had a majority of cormons mormons this method was pursued to intimidate shemwell them well knowing that the mormon members would rather retain him than have it understood that be was dismissed for being a gentile but when the trustees discovered the real author of the articles in eastern papers and the motive back of them nothing deterred them from doing their duty we could itell of other things that would tend to show that bupt supt was willing to injure and cripple the school as soon as ahe discovered abat he was to toe dropped as the superintendent and we shall feel it to be our duty to lay all the information before the governor should he decide to make an investigation and we hope he will the tribune has listened to mr met balts side of the controversy and has never asked tor the other side in fact the tribune does not want to hear the other side but the governa gover nw if he investigates will hear both sides let us have the investigation |