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Show LIVING VOL. 6 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY. JANUARY OPEN LETTER. To the ministers of Salt Lake City. Gentlemen: Living Issues has addressed open letters to the First Presidency ot the Mormon church and to the President of Salt Lake Stake of Zion. These letters were addressed to them in their public capacity and in reference to them we have nothing to take back. If we erred at all it was that we under stated the condition of our city. Since writing these letters not a single day has passed that has not brought something new to our notice or some horrible addition to what we have already advanced. Individually many of you have consider able influence, although far snort 01 that possessed by the Mormon presidents. But we desire to address you in your collective capacity. You number considerably over twenty individuals and, allowing 300 as the average attendants and members of your varions churches you are directly in a posi- tion to influence 6,000 men and women. That being so, if your power and influence was united and concentrated it would be very formidable indeed. It is sometimes asserted that jealousies and rivalries divide you to such an extent that you are but a rope of sand. We refuse to believe that you are divided to any extent so far as possessing an honest desire to remedy the evils we have pointed out are concerned. Most of you are membars of one political party. We are not troubled about that; we only state it as a tact and then point out that that party rules Salt Lake City today. That ought to make your power, greater and your action easier. What can you; what ought you to do? Living Issues asks you to form yourselves into a deputation together with the wealthy and leading members of your congregations make it as formidable and united as if vou were going to battle, then, armed with facts and evidence, wait upon Mayor Thompson and Chief of Police Hilton, and the city council, use no soft words, tell them that the laws must be enforced or, cost what it may, you will have them impeached, disgraced and removed. It can be done and you can do it. The question is will you? To make assurance doubly sure wait on President Snow and ask for his active co operation in this matter. We believe he will give it, but should he refuse, act without him. Thousands of citizens will rally round you who do not attend your churches. A hundred revivals would not accomplish as much good as can easily be dune in this direction. Follow the grand text which commands you We to cease to do evil; learn to do well will briefly point out what can be done. Nearly one hundred places where drink is sold all day on Sunday closed in obedience to law. About twenty gaming hells (six in one street) removed from the city at once and forever. The open, flagrant, disgraceful partnership between the police and the brothels destroyed and a rule of humanity and decency enforced Have all signs on dens of vice removed; let the inmates be sent to homes while the proprietors and keepers are sent to jail. Have all (no matter how high they may be) who let their premises, or those under their control, for immoral purposes arrested, fined and imprisoned. There is more, much more, but do this and more will follow. Are you afraid to step right out like men and fight these evils without gloves? We hope not. We have faith in some of you, but it needs all, or nearly all to make it successful. It is very asy to prepare and preach one or two nice sermons every week in a beautiful church, to a select congregation. But it is not satisfactory to know that the open saloon on Sunday has a larger congregation than you have and make drunkards faster than you can make Christians. Living Issues wants to say that you have a duty in this matter. This is the kind of work Christian ministers and churches will have to do. Show by your works that you are Christians and patriots. Words without works are so much empty sound. We tell you that if you close the saloons and gaming hells and remove the brothels you will thereof this by fill your churches. If the editor refused and church paper was a minister of a or neglected to act in this matter, he would 111 I i 26 1900 be ashamed to lift his salary or look an honest reformer in the face. He certainly would not expect to hear his Master's voice saying: Well done thou good and faithful servant. Brethren let us get together and do somer thing. ANTI COMPULSORY VACCINATION. The anti compulsory agitation has resulted in the establishing of the Anti Compulsory Vaccination League for the State of Utah. It is proposed to have branches in every large town and in every county thioughout the state, for the purpose of distributing literature and holding public meetings against Successor to THE INTER-- .the glorious liberties of. Co smercial, street and Saltair could be exhibited by some We have no r objection to any man paving the, ministry if he. sees fit. Evidently Mclcnes had mistsken'his catling; One thing we do know and that is. that there is no such liberty, theologically speaking, in the Mor-jno- n church as there is in the Congregational. As for long faces and Solemn demeanor, e know of no Mormon Apostle who possesses a more genial face or enjoys a harmless joke more than Dr. Brown or Dr. Ilift believe it was Allies .Young who said that Mormonism. was' a ' splendid institution for making infidels. When the. church op advocates gan, covertly; throwing to the winds the restraints of moral and , decent society' where else can they land? r.,.rv,K-.wne- w irthla number I oYiths label con-4- Ut tabling your name, you had bettai as that Is the. the nextmighty issue.quick, .. THE BATTLE OF'L'iFF, W. S - compulsory vaccination and to prevent legislation being used in favor of compulsion. The attempt on the part of the Board of Education to carry out the orders of the Board of Health has so far failed, that not half of A THE SCHOOL'. ELECTION y the school children have been vaccinated. i The Board of Education, wanted to borrow Active steps have been taken to obtain a writ $26000. Out of 14,000 voters only a Tittle of mandamus, compelling the School Board ever 300 were- willing that it should do 40. to admit healthy children and the antis are Of these three, hundred probab'y' three very sanguine of success. As a means of fourths of them were the , personal friends of preventing the spread of smallpox, if it were the members of the board, or of the teachers, even admitted that vaccination was the right not. counting the board.' or the teachers thing, would it not have been better for the themselves. Practically the people were a health authorities to issue a proclamation unit against the loan. .. The vote, settled the calling upon all the people to vaccinate rath- matter and it is dead killed by the sovereign er than taking the queslioneble and coward- people. ' We advised bur readers, fojr certain ly steps to enforce it upon school children reasons, to vote against the loan which they only. Less than half the children of this itrl. We are not going to discuss that, but city go to school. Of the other half some art going to point out how excellent it was have left school and the remainder are teb that the people were reserved their rights 'in young. Cannot these take smallpox? Then this matter. The Referendum would give the adult population numbers over 35,000; back to the people in state, county and city what of these? It is not assumed that the the rights which undoubtedly belong to them Board of Health have any compulsory power and out of which they have ' been cheated by over more than part of the popula- the politicians! Make it imperitive that no tion Are the other four-fiftimmune2 franchise can be granted and no money borWe are not. Certainly opposed to compul- rowed without the consent of the sovereign sion, but are in favor of all proper steps be- psope, then fraud and boodle' would 'be ing taken to avoid disease of any kind. Sir things of the past. The school election was For an ol ject lesson well worth considering. .... John Lemon, M. D., F. R. S., says: the permanent avoidance of epidemic disease, pjjrsS-Annwesacleanliness is the sole safeguard. A govern Few men that ever lived did as much for ment Blue Book says: In its epidemic from their country, and for the human family as smallpox must be met by improving the the Plawman Bard, who was born sanitary condition of the people. Sir B. W. in great Ayr on January 25 1759. His inspiring Richardson, M.D., F.R.S (than whom there have done much to make his countrywords is no higher authority) says: Inoculation is men leaders in the van of human progress bad sanitation. The true preventatives of He was the first poet to dignify honest poetdisease are pure blood and a healthy life. and to inspire the poor man to be in very In our last issue we gave a large number ry truth a man. of opinions of some of the most eminent Lives there lor honest poverty, medical men in the world, all against vacWho hangs his head andt that; cination, we have been waiting for the other The coward slave we pass him bye, side if there is one. Surely Drs. King and And dare be poor for a that. Beatty have something to advance in favor For a that and a that of vaccination. We would like to see a pubTheir dignities and a that; lic debate of the question, either on the platThe rank is but the guinea stamp, form or in the public press. The strongest The mans the gold for a that. evidence of the impregnable position of the What can be grander than the following? anti vaccinationists lies in the fact that nearly "The man of independent mind is king of the whole of them started out fully believing In 1853 the editor of Living men for a that. in vaccination Listen to his closing lines. medical was a student and assisted in Issues Then let us pray that come it may, vaccinating hundreds of children. It was As come it will for a that; until latch not that its falacies twenty years That man to man the world o'er, and dangers were laid bare to him. One of Will brothers be and a that. his own children nearly lost its life and he Burns had vices and was too much of a personally knew of five deaths directly from vaccination. 0.i Saturday a mass meeting man to try and hide them, indeed he often will beheld in the Federation of Labor Hall exaggerated them. It cannot be shown that at 8 o'clock, when the question will be dis- he ever tried to defend them. His longest cussed. poem, Tam O'Shanter is a strong satire on the drinking customs of the age. THE DESERET NEWS AND A Unfortunately there are Scotchmen who do HONEST MINISTER. ot study Burns, but who imagine that they It seems strange that a church organ are doing something praiseworthy and worshould devote over half a column of editorial of Burns when they join in some drinkto glorify and extol a man becluse he left thy to them, seems to be the the Christian ministry to have a high old ing orgie. Drink, end-aof life. It was not for and be-atime. He desired to go to dances, to roll such as these that Burns wrote and lived; he down the public street with his hands in his would hold them up to withering scorn. pockets, his hat on the back of hs head and True Scotchmen everywhere must follow to be able to yell at the top of bis voice: Burns the patriot, the poet, in his effort to Hello old man, how goes it? The last lift men and women to something nobler and sentence in the editorial reads. To abandin the attempt to roll them in on the sectarian ministry is a good intro- higher, but not the gutter in the sacred name of Burns. We duction to the study of true thrology. If trust Scotchmen will never forget to celebrate that means drinking, gambling, swearing, the of his birth, but that it will be done frequenting public dancing resorts and broth- in day such a manner as will reflect credit on els, Penrose may be on the right track. We Scotland and be worthy of Burns. are perfectly well aware that there are certain restraints, and there ought to be. The progress of the world is not by conWhen Mormon missionaries go to England verting the older generation, but by educator any other Christian country these re- ing the younger. B Kidd. straints are put on with an iron screw. We The social system which creates the tramp would like the News to tell us how many is a greater evil than the tramp which it creconverts these missionaries would make, if ates. New Era. . p - - one-fift- O 2A vile-scp- e. ie h - hs - y; SO-CALLE- D ll ll : NO.' OUNTAIN ADVOCATE. K f GODBEU ? . f, V- V Let pleasure lure thy sonl in vain 7. And selfish ease, its baneful train, . While man in bondage piteous cries Tq seeming unresponsive skies '. Anci yet, in Truth's calm light we.seep;- Tis God s high will mad shall be fieel ' ' ..." . ... .1 7 But enter thou the earnest strife, To wifi for all a freemans life; 1 r , - ..-- For wheresoeer his lot be cast, Despite the ills that cannot last, And all the cruel wrongs that be, ' Tis Heavens will man shall be free. ? -- Yea, mingle In the mental strife, V ' That man may reach a broader life, d And from his bigotry,'. His cold and heartless tyranny, , : And every thrall of mans decree, Aid Heavens cans to make men free. blood-staine- ' - . j . Nor shrink thou from the inoral strife, Een though the conflict end with life; But from ambstions lust and power, Mans strut of pride in earths brief hour From passion, hate and perfidy,' ' ' Help Heavens cause to make men free. Gainst poverty that saps the mind And. sinks the man beneath his kind, The robbeV title to the soil ! The source of life to each and all Let earnest heart and brain unite And seek the monstrous wrong to right. 1 . Wage thou perpetual loving strife, That man may breathe a kindlier life; That widows need and orphan tear, And haggard want and craven fear, May cease vice in deeds oi love be crushed. And grief in songs of gladness hushed. . . That jjic Unswerved by ra-j- y impartial rejgn J gold's pernicious baj That motive, not mere deed alone, Shall weigh, perchance the fault condone, And Charity, with angel hand, Spread wide her mantle o'er the land. -- That purity with love may dwell, Where no unholy passions well; Fair woman find in every land Her sure defense in mans right hand, While womanhood with grace supreme Transcends the poets brightest dream. Continue steadfast in the fight, God's soldier valient for the right, Till sorrows wail, the outcasts moan, The anguish known to God alone, Be heard no more; and peace and love Be mirrored from the heavens abive. FIVE POINTS OF THE CHARTER. We have advanced a little in our demands since Fergus O'Connor advocated the peoples charter in England. He was locked upon as an enemy to the constitution and worse than an anarchist. The five points were: Manhood suffrage; 2 Vote by ballot; 3 Annual Parliaments; 4 No property qualification for a seat in Parliament; 5 Payment of members of Parliament. In America we have all these except the third; instead we have biennial Parliaments which are better than annual. In England they have vote by ballot, household suffrage, no property qualification. Payment of members and annual Pari ament are still in the distance. Members of Parliament are elected for seven years but the Queen, by the advice of the Prime Minister, can dissolve it at any time. In both countries we have advocates of of universal adult suffrage and of Populistic and Socialistic principles, some of us are in a hurry to get them. It took England neary 50 years to get vole by ballot. The wheels of reform revolve slowly but we will keep pegging away. Victory is sure to come if we faint not. 1. Great deeds cannot die; they with the sun and moon renew their light forever, blessing those who look upon them. Tennyson. Every time a man makes a ruling against woman he drives another spike in the collar by which she is already leading him. -- Facts From Denver. |