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Show -265was a Mormon his secretary lS a Gentile. examining board for teachers was made up of three Gen tiles and one Mormon. The Supervisors of the teachers are three Gentiles and one Mormon. The principals of the pub lic schools are eight Mormons and seventeen Gentiles. that time • • • The The total amount Salt Lake City to Mormons.7 paid to teachers of the public schools of annually The American produced venomous out of The facts of point that mational $52,000 years of eight activity, misrepresentation concerning Mormon support of their poor, the whose speeches were quoted daily living of use of General misquotations tithing of monies, Authorities, context, vilified and ridiculed. in Salt Lake City were the Church and the entire Mormon falsified to the people into brought were disrepute. By the role its authorities the Church had provided On the other forcing a some played politics withdrawal of the Churchvs hand from role in and economics hand, the party accomplished little, if anything, with what it considered leading in for the rise of the American justification the effect of the constant attacks of the and its vicious name-calling and toward to Gentiles and assaults against the Church, direct criminal charges conditions in the schools, Party. $170,000 campaign, throughout against Church authorities, facts was party adequate justification politics. to take open and overt action By providing against it, a to was for politics. Rather, provide the Church taking reason a more active for President Smith the American Party inadverdently defeated the main purpose for its existence. The First the World," made its Presidency of the Church, in the 1907 "Address to position clear with respect to attacks on the Church |
