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Show VICE TRIUMPHS. The Seattle city council has refused to adopt the resolution containing impeachment im-peachment charges against Mayor I Li rani ('. Gill and the town will be' run "'wide open' ac usual unless the civic organizations organ-izations are able to force reform by M'ine other means. In the mean time the order of Major General Greene forbidding for-bidding soldiers to visit the sound city remain:- in force and the merchants are losing the trade of some thousands- of men who wear the uniform of their country and are being protected from the vii-e syndicates as far as possible. In times past citizens of many towns whose person: 1 conduct wa s above re- ! proach held to the belief that saloons, gambling dens and disorderly bouses were signs of prosperity and that busi rer-s would mi f f er if These places were I tdiminated. This view is still held in some localities siid it ia the attitude of this so-called respectable element that makes the ork of cleaning up 60 d'fticult where vice holds sway. Seattle i. probably uo worse than many other places in the country, but 'he spotlight has been turned upon it owing to the proximity of Camp Lewis and the order of Major General Greene. As the camp will probably be deserted before suc-cors U Mav.,r ii;i and t he-council he-council '-an I ' (!. r "i i urt - :!- : l : .-r--t i n tiic Scat tie i cp r"" ai N u a n in l'. |