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Show A LisgracefulOrgie. OnThurs- j day night Faust's hall was the scene of a "masquerade ball," the first, we believe, be-lieve, ever given in Salt Lake, and wc would like to believe the last. If there was a thfccnt woman present wc have not been informed of it, and she must have seen enough in a very brief time ' to drive her away aglow with burning shame. Wo have no intention of pandering to depraved or prurient de- j sires, by describing the orgic as it was described to us, but emphatically de-J nounce the place as a public nuisance and fruitful sourco of evil which should be suppressed if within the power of constitutional law. Wc were somewhat some-what astonished on Thursday night to loarn that two p3lioc officers had been refused admission to the hall by the1 door keeper, and that they had quietly taken the refusal. If they had ar 1 rested the door kcopcr at first, when he refused to admit them, there is, every likelihood that they wouid not! have been impeded and assaulted alter-' wards when they sought to arrest him for disturbing the peace. If such I places arc not open to officers to enter ! and sec that peace is preserved, when ; they deem their duties requires them, the police might as well be dismissed; and the city given up to tho control of law-deficrs, thieves, garrotcrs and demi-reps; and thus carry out the policy indicated by certain j recent legal decisions pointing to the i ultimate triumph of "civilization," , and which drew their inspiration from the samo hall bg fore it had i soended to the grade of a hell-hole for midnight orgies. The quirreliog iu the place, and tho subsequent shootin? outside it, wore legitimate fruits of the asscmb-1 ling of such a crowd as were together, in whom every scu-c of decency even' seemed dead and forgotten. |
