Provo city, Febr. 22nd, [18]90 President Wilford Woodruff. Dear Brother, The copy of the letter of Bro. Attewall Wootton, Pres. of the Wasatch Stake Board of Education, to President A. Hatch, is before me and has been purused with great care. As I cannot speak by personal knowledge of the case, but have before me only Principal Enoch Jorgensen's letter and two printed extracts from the "Wasatch Wave," which do not coincide entirely with ...

continued tents that the case should never have gone outside of the Stake. Not mentioning the circumstance that the offence had been known to every member of that Board for some time without anything being done about it until the General Board demanded an investigation, it was clearly that Principal's duty to ask my advice in the matter, what position he should take in the premises. I did advise Bro. Jorgensen in my answer in following words: "I fully realize, dear Brother, the difficulties of your position in ...

continued emergency. I am decidedly of the opinion that Bro. Jos- gensen has simply acted in the line of his well defined duty, as much as it was mine to report the case to the General Board. I should very much desire, that Bro. Wootto should be instructed to that effect, as this case estab- lishes a precedent for similar ones in the future. If the President of that Stake Board and the other members are of the opinion that the Principal of the Academy has overstepped his lines, the position of Bro ...