Utah's Sons the State's Great Pride

Utah's Sons, the State's Great Pride. — From the men trained in Utah colleges the native state is receiving continual praise, and these men are doing as much as any other one factor to make Utah a most honored state. The Utah Agricultural College, alone, has sent constructive citizens into ten states of the Union, and into many federal offices at Washington, who are leaders in the agricultural industry of these states. They are soil experts, foresters, reclamation engineers, irrigationists,agronomists, animal husbandmen, and investigators and managers in crop production and dry-farming. Into the states of Kansas, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, California, Minnesota, Missouri, and New York, she has sent these men. In the United States Department of Agriculture, Utah-trained men are gradually forging to leadership, and in their good work are building a veritable monument to the state's great citizenship. They are all champions of the dignity of intelligent labor which is in reality the heritage of Utah.

Liberty of the Press

BY JAMES H. ANDERSON, OF THE GENERAL BOARD Y. M. M. I. A.

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— Press Censorship in History. From a very early period, books supposed to be hurtful to the interests of government, of religion, or of morality, have been condemned to the flames, or sometimes censored by particular tribunals, and often suppressed. Frequently the death sentence was imposed upon writers and dispensers of books that came under the ban of ecclesiastical or secular authorities. Heathen antiquity supplies some instances of the burning of obnoxious books Tacitus mentions a history of ;

Crementius Cordus which the Roman Senate, to flatter Tiberius, condemned because it designated Caius Cassius as the last of the Romans; Eusebius records how Diocletian caused copies of the Scriptures to be burned. The early churches which succeeded the primitive Church of Christ, in the garb of Christianity, displayed intolerance equal to that of the heathen, to say the least. The charge of heresy was a ready instrument in destroying or preventing the publication of works alleged to be injurious to the faith. Writings continued to increase among the people, and church councils began the issuance of lists of prohibited books. The Council of Nicea condemned to the flames the works of Arius the writings of Nes- ;

torius met the same fate at the Council of Ephesus pagan works ;

were prohibited at the Council of Carthage in 400 A. D. in 494 ;

a list of forbidden books was issued in a decree of a council at Rome in the 13th century the works of Aristotle were condemned ;

by the Romish church. These are a few of a vast number of similar instances. With the acquisition of more convenient and cheaper materials for bookmaking prior to the 15th century, there was awak-

ened a persistent demand and effort for liberty of the press, which grew stronger as the means for expressing thought in written