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Show -i' I I V tfiipW j 7 I lj rasia to eietode . i. laDU Sootehaaen from v I -ft wUla adsaMUBg brig-,V,ftm brig-,V,ftm Sicily aad caanlbab fnm Hungary, in order to retain bis position. It i this view of the case which moves the Lutherans of Illinois, for the tame process could be carried out there that is carried out in Utah, and the fata of their religion be placed in the bands of some party heeler whom accident or expediency might make a United States Judge. In legislation the McKinley bill, the Silver bill, the Customs Administration Ad-ministration bill and ethers are Important Im-portant enactments. Great developments in trade and commerce have been initiated, and the projected reciprocity with Latin America is supposed to be productive produc-tive of vast results. To come nearer home. In the history of Salt Lake City a great event has taken place. Thegovern-ment Thegovern-ment of the city was transferred from the People's party to the "Liberals" "Lib-erals" in February. Until this transfer occurred, Salt Lake City was one of the best governed cities In the world. Life and property were safe. Peace and order were the promlneat characteristics of the community. Taxation was not a burden. But before the close of the year what a change has taken place! One prominent city official wa short in his accounts at the rale c I over two hundred dollars a mouth, and had to vacate bis office. Several of the eity-'s guardians have had to be discharged. The city has become tho Mecca of tramps, footpads foot-pads and burglars. The frontier towns of the continent are sending their thieves, pimps, sand-baggers, burglars and gamblers to SUt Lake. So horrible has the condition of the city become that the more decent of the "Liberals" have inaugurated a campaign against the conduct of the officials or their own choosing. They declare that vile bouses of resort, gambling bells, saloons, and other places of evil have multiplied mul-tiplied and are in full operation with but little check, even on the bab-.bath bab-.bath day. This confession and movement by members of the "Liberal" "Lib-eral" party is significant of its failure on the one hand, and encouraging en-couraging to the causa of morality on the other. The Variety Theatre that most Infamous of all agents for the demoralization de-moralization of youth, has made its appearance here. It only needs a whiskey license to m iko it one of the vilest curses that canbeinflKted onacommunity. It is true it was denied that license last nibt by a mere scratxh, but it will fight fora license notwithstanding, and woe to tho community theuay it gets it. That would be the opening wedge for a numlier of such places and then what the result may be it is saddening to contemplate. Improvements in this city in the shape of banks, hotels, wholesale and retail stores, private residences, etc., have been extensive and commendable, com-mendable, and the population has been considerably increased. While locally and generally there is moeh in the past year to deplore, there has been great advancement in science, art, religion and government, govern-ment, and in the means for disseminating dissem-inating Intelligence and cementing the nations as parts of one great family. In bidding aJIeu to the departing year and welcoming the new one, we congratulate the good and true among all nations on the progress that is belnmadetowanjsajbriter, andbrighterfuture. And to all our fricnds,at bomeandabroad,In every condition of life, we extend hearty greeting and hope that eighteen hundred and ninety-one will prove to them indeed A Happy New Year. |