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Show The Difference. I It w a public failing to grow philanthropic, phil-anthropic, benign and holy over every new evil. This is exemplified ia tbe virtuous and unnecessary splurge in tbe Tribune of Saturday about opium dens. The Herald months ago, called attention to thU enl, which waa then classed ae aQ exaggeration by thid journal 19110 Paragon of morality; and an ordinance was passed and tbe matter suppressed as much as poasible. This ia one isolated case, and yet we must gel up in arms over it. Who goes wild over the many deaths from alooholr Which is tbe greater evil? Why does not our virtuoua neighbor denounce dens of prostitution, and whisky and gambling gam-bling hells? There are plenty of them and they work more misery and , ub, ny untold odds, than ever opium did here. Not that we are not averse to opium amoking and deeire it Btamped out, but these virtuous flights on the part of our contemporary con-temporary are of ethereal transparency. trans-parency. Bow is it that this evil is not one of the outgrowtha of the "twin relic," in tbe mention which the Tribune is ko glib? |