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Show THE WAIL FOR THE CHILDREN. In tho interesting clippings which The Tribune carries every Monday morning from the press of Utah, It Is seldom indeed that complaint of the boodlumlsm of the young people in the various settlements cannot be found. This morning we print some more of these righteous complaints, at tho samo time assuring our contemporaries that the conditions they strive against are even more evil and more prevalent In this city than In the localities where theso contemporaries are published. And here, as they .very Justly say with respect to the Inhabitants of the settlements, set-tlements, tho parents are" chiefly to blame. It seems impossible to arouso the parents of these hoodlums to realization real-ization of their responsibility In this matter, and to a sense of tho wrong which they are doing to their children and to the community by permitting those children to haunt the streets at night and so getting Into tho ways of recklessness, vice, and crime. It Is conceded by all, and is evident to any observer, that it is in running the streets at night that boys become demoralized and get Into vicious ways. It Is Impossible for the public to stop this dreadful and all but universal evil until the boys become transgressors of ..the law, unless the parents will be more strict with their boys, and will ,loolc out better for their welfare. But .when parents will virtually aid and ,abet their boys in entering upon an unholy and lawless life by actually giving their children permits to bo out late at night, so that the curfew law '.cannot be enforced against tjiem, as tho Payson paper relates, then indeed, Is j the case hopeless. t This boodlumlsm and progression of 1 the boys upon the downward path is so 'prevalent, It is so conspicuously abhorrent, ab-horrent, that something must be done 'to stop it, nnd we recommend again the remedy to parents, and to all who take an active and sympathetic interest In the present generation, and in the one that Is to coma after. |