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Show VISITORS ARE INSULTED Lecturer on Sight-Seeing Cnr Speaks 111 of a Church. ''And now. ladles and gt-ntlrmcn, I will call your attention to tho beautiful church to your lljht. That Is tho Christian Science church, sometimes called the slxtcon-to-one church, bf-cause thero arc sixteen women to ono man In Its membership." It will nstonlfth. perhaps mako Indignant mnny cltl.-.en of Salt 1-nko City to learn tho above scurrilous, contemptible "spiel" l.i made every limn a "Seeing Salt Lake Car" passes Urn Christian Sclcnco church on Third South, botween Third nnd Fourth East. Tho writer Is not a member of tho Christian Chris-tian Science church, but In reliably Informed that thn congregation Is among the largest. If nol the very largest. In this city, and Is made up of rarnel, conscientious people. But that Is not tho question. If tho congregation consisted of one man and sixteen women, such comments should not bo tolerated, and It Is fiafo to say would not ho tolerated In any other oth-er community. It Is disgraceful, hhamoful, contemptible, hut merely empha&lzos to Visitors their already al-ready preconceived Ideas that Utah Is outside out-side the palo of respectability and that everything every-thing goes hero. If the management of the street railway company permits this outrage to continue It should be held legally rctionHlble, If Indeed, It has not already laid Itsalf liable for nn action of law. At any rate It now stands convicted con-victed In tho eyes of all fair-minded men nnd women of a gravo dlscourtesv. CITIZEN. Knit Lako City. Jan. II, 153, |