Show BYE THE BYE Iscariot betrayed the Master I may not have been with a kiss but Salt Lake was betrayed when Liberalism unlocked the doors of the city for the lawnessness of the day Go where one may on Main or other business streets electric lights point the way to the club rooms the veriest hellholes I hell-holes of earth These furnish ungarbled tales of filching and fleecing from night to n ght He who yields to the temptation possessed of the root of all evil could tell a tale that would cause honest men to stop and think and fathers and mothers to weep over the frailties of their erring sons i i Not long since club rooms were comparatively com-paratively speaking unknown in Salt Lake Few i any found lodgement in any part of the city The youthful mind of this magnificent valley knew comparatively comparative-ly nothing of gambling save that which came to them in story Mark the met amophorsis known to every intelligent man of the city Prior to the present official regime the evils that are were almost unknown un-known Today there are seventysix gambling gam-bling hells in the city while a cozen years ago an institution of this kind was unknown To what does the honest religious re-ligious world attribute the i change l Well well says the man who covets the deposit of nlchers and fleecers certain cer-tain evils must bo condoned and licensed to help pay the running expenses of a city but God pities the hellish idea License men to steal I License men to take ninety nine chances out of a hundred against his fellows 1 License men to pocket honest earned dollars on wheels of fortune tbat turn but one way 1 License a girl to sacrifice sac-rifice her virtue and soul to the passion of the horde that ought to be penned up rather than be permitted to run at large Such cussedness is sufficiently rebuked in that beautiful scriptural sentence Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see find i The socalled social evils however are not the only evils that ought t invite pub lie attention and criticism Street improvements improve-ments are being made without wellestab lished grades necessitating outlanaish expense ex-pense that must necessarily be repealed in a very short time But no matter says one the end justifies the means Numerous Numer-ous workmen on our streets gives the visitor visi-tor and capitalist the idea of thrift and enterprise en-terprise and leads them to locate with us Does it strike you that reaction must come when taxpaying time comes 1 I Salt Lake is ever ready to make permanent improvements improve-ments on the streets she is able to make them now Double taxation is an evil of moment Concrete ought never to be putdown put-down even as a temporary pavement I o I can be said truly that Salt Lake is a model for order and sobriety considering the vast number of saloons and dives within her limits Yet she is not perfect in this respect by several furlongs Although Al-though the police force generally is vigilant vigi-lant there is work thatsoineof the members neglect to their discredit Possibly instructions in-structions may not cover shortcomings in this respect and if not the head of the department de-partment falls a little short of moral duty Inferiors rarelyusurp authority In a word there are opium joints on Commercial street that ought to be shut up forever and aye There are also other evils within piping distance of these joints that ought to be inquired into In fact the street barring reputable residents might ho dubbed rotten row with propriety If the underpolico have any authority at ail it ought to go far enough to close up and restrain every evil moral or otherwise that comes within their knowledge and its members ought to be men of sufficient character char-acter and standing to see that the decent public is kept rid of all nuisances J J J |