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Show In the meantime it will ruin several of your bright promising young men. but, do not fear, there will be plenty of the elite loft to pass the plates iu the churches and to fly the sails of your nourishing commeree. -j- -f- -t- For every young man plucked as a brand from the burning by tho noble etl'orts of the Y. M. (!. A. I will name two young men of equal prominence made moral wrecks by the soul devouring devour-ing harlots that furnish recruits for the infernal regions by the earthly medium of exchange, known to respectability as the variety theater. - - I can almost name a half dozen young men, the flower of the first families, who can already be counted among the wrecks to be. -t- -t-But would I grant the license? I would. There is a popular demand for it. The evil must run its course. It cannot and will not be prevented. The marrow in the moral vertebra of this city is very pliable and by. holding a candle lo it you can see it go up and down. Yesterday there was no protest pro-test against a variety theater worth mentioning. To-day the moral sense is outraged by, the granting of a license to furnish drink at the carousals. -- APid the council expect that a variety theatre could subsist on water when three-fourths of the money is made out of men drugged ovt of tlioir senses by a kind of wine that has to be kept on ce to keep it from getting the buildl ng on lire. KNOWS JSVERYTHING." Believes the Best Way to Settle the Vari- ety Theater is to Give it a License. KNOWS ALL ABOUT THE BED MAN. There is a Popular Damand for a Variety Varie-ty Theater and it Must Bun its Course. I start out tho New Year with a perfect per-fect knowledge of the past and future. No event has ever happened but that I know just how it occurred and the conditions that inspired it; whether good or evil, and I penetrate the future as clearly as I do the past. -4- -f- I know that had I charge of the Indian In-dian war I would by this time have brought it to an end. and without the loss of a single man. Had I worn Gen. Brooke's shoes, and the general goue barefooted, I would have massed all the available and unavailable soldiers at l'ino Ridge, and presented such an array of brass buttons and blue cloth ns would have overawed the redskins, But General Brooke is general, and I am not even a private. President Har rison might have attended to this and seen that it was otherwise, but the president has not the prescience that I possess. ;: ------ worrj themselves over a public meeting now and then, as they will hear enough execration before they are through with the variety theater business to make their feet chilly and their teeth chatter. The moment they admitted it into the city they doubled their responsibilities. You can set it down that the variety theater will get a license, sooner or later. They will worry it out of you. They have their attorneys hired to do that. You may resist them a week or a month, but you will finally give in. The pressure will be too great. The majority major-ity of the peopie will laugh at you and wink at it. They think it will make lots of fun. They must get their till of it, and when the' town is thoroughly nauseated with the unclean thing, public pub-lic opinion will revolt at it, then crush it. 4- 4- -t- The public cannot anticipate these things as I can. The experience of every city is the same. '1 hey all run their courses. When a half dozen murders mur-ders can be traced to the variety theater thea-ter and a dozen or two promisingyoung men have been wreckod, the public will begin to see what a blessing a variety theater is. There is no use anticipating an-ticipating these things. The public is a blind ox as to the future. 4-4-4- Then a variety theater is useful It furnishes recreation for the gamblers, foot pads, house breakers and innumerable innumer-able bunco steerers and sneak thieves that are congregating in our city. These people must have their pleasure. When they break into your house they must have some compensation for running the risk, by lavishing at least a part of the money on "Snakebite Kate," and .cutting a dash among the swells with a "night off." When these men make a stake they spend it like water. They go home broke. But they can tap a till tomorrow night. So wags the world. There is a demand for a variety theater. thea-ter. The miner at Ringliaiu. Park City and Tintie. working all summer driving his drill into the. cold rock must have a warm place to "provoke tales and with each tale more beer" and the company of women such as they are-even are-even if they have to stand up to their own ghosts and gain their feet through tho ten commandments all at once. This is one of the beauties of a mining cam p. Thero are two ways of handling the Indian and just two ways of dealing with the variety theater. One is to let it have all the scalps it wants and tho other is to scalp it. There is no way of regulating it. The Cincinnati city coun -icl and police devoted about half their time for ten years trying to keep that den of vice known as the Vine street theater decent enough for prostitutes pros-titutes to attend its carousals without losing casta among I he men of the town, but some way the wily malinger got the best of them right along. Finally the city council had a revelation saying that which could not be regulated in ten years cOuld be lopped off in ten months, and the license was withdrawn, the manager went to jail, and that ended it. Cleveland had the same experience with Moutpellier Variety theater. The city council kept worrying themselves to death over the nastiness that was going oa there, but they lacked the courage to tackle it with a pair of tongs. It was tough and not nice to take hold of. -t- New York city experienced the same trouble with its concert halls. Mayor Hewitt and tho press, with the power of the police, fought for fifteen years the Haymarket . and oiher such notorious dives, and finally had to come down to business and snuff it out. --- The mayor and city council need not General Connor's remedy for Indian diisturbances is sure death to every bifck at the age of fourteen. I can see he w this would settle not only the In- I tii in wars, but tho Indian. Good as .j Gi neral Connor's remedy is, it is a lit- S tic hard on the red skin. If tho kind- hearted general will look up his ci rlv history, ho will find that th l Indian was of a time strongly in fn 'sr of that policy himself. Hut that w sat that early period when there w rfc a great man v red skins and a very fe ri'ale faces, l'he pale face didn't th ns it was exactly fair and tho Indian sii oked the peace pipe. Rut times have J cl mgod and in degenerating from tho jji ind aboriginal man to the dough face w become distrustful and treacherous. ;, --- iut tho Indian war, serious as it is, fu ntshes tine target practice for our go Hers, who. through the indolence of p, ce. become very musty. yj ;1 ! layor Scott would like me to fell hi the outcome of the variety theater j( nse. I am sorry to inform his honor, U, mayor, that th'elicense will be forth- J co king. When the foundation was ja; for that building there was a de-rn; de-rn; fd made for the souls of many yo ng men and bill once too, and it J w;i decreed iu the book of fate that it t! th ild be so. j ie problem of keeping an aspiring tc i like Salt Lake so l hat a man can ce from his business to his bed with-ou with-ou 'oing tirst to his grave is a serious ontT and Mayor Scoit can well ask for 1 my advice. -t- The best wav to get rid of the variety theater is to give it a license and a free ,: lwinK nd get it bad enough to be " pulled" at the very shortest time. Fncourage it to commit erery violation of law and decencv that it may educate the public to appreciate what a full blown variety is in the interests of its nastiness. i |