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Show H let all aoo CITIZEN'S unite. Jgf As evil genius l.ra specially per- Hft. raeiteJ this city for a year 1.1st. E? The results are atirailus tlie law HE an J order citizens. At the rate at Pft which vice anJ immorality are la- left - crcaslnr, fcliould they go ou un- Hr chBCkeif.Uie day is not dlilzal when faf the lawless eleaient will have com- III j.leto control, auJ crime ruu riot in i the community. Is- Throughout the u hole process of H& retrogresslan from peace and good gfcTifc order to a reign of vice and terror, M' one figure stands out in particular fierai prominence that cf Orlando W. kk.N Powers. Hecarrled the election of IsMT last February for the "Liberals" for Bpb-s a consideration. He was openly Apf " ' paid ten thousand dollars for the Rn joh. The fraudulent processes by Bf tVSi, which the result was achieved are KKkV notorious in the community. SflfirVMl. N- Wo do not allude to the frauds of MpX A - y last February with the mere object Jm V. of raking up the disgusting embers f . " of the just. . The purpose is to point WK v -Cf n .pioral and show that every seed g&X N. , ths.t is planted brings forth of its XM-a "i KJtato. Eo also hen the seeds of "$ljkv. -a- political briars and stink-wced are 4i 'v$2sa? town, It woulcj'be insanity to an- AlSjS tlcipate a crop-of lillies and grapes. -pftME The present ?rop of crime and cor- ftKSBm- ruptlonis' the natural harvest of sSHHP such an election as was conJucled "Sil """ by. Mr. Towers at the opening of last year. tVe are aware that many good people trained with the "Liberal" party at tho time referred to. Had they been fully aware cf the frauds that were being be-ing perpetrated thty would probably prob-ably have hoitaUd, to say the least. If they had anticipated the results which are now self-evident to every beholder they would not have given such a cause aid and encouragement. But they did not expect what they now confess exists ex-ists to an alarming extent, and which now appals them. Months ago raauy leading non-"Mormons" non-"Mormons" had their eyes opened to the state of affairs which every good citizen deplores. The clergymen, clergy-men, at an early stage of the flood of corruption, even before it gained full headway, perceived the drift of aflalr?, and representing, as they did on this question, all lovers of sobriety, virtue and good order, appealed ap-pealed to the City Council to take steps toward arresting the course of vice. This brought Mr. Powers the ten thousand dollar politician to the front. He, with unabashed cSrentery, fjr which lie is noted, stated Uixt during the campaign preceding the la3t municipal election elec-tion it was true that the clergymen had been "consulted," but so also bad the "gamblers and saloon keep era." He was also opposed to having hav-ing the condition of this city "too This expression from the paid po- k litlcal autocrat scarcely needs an V"rV . aer "" 'BE ' hrothels and the like. You have same claim owing to the support you gave the party and tho prom- fises made to you during the campaign. cam-paign. But, you see, promises were aUo made to the whisky sellers, sell-ers, gamblers and others in that line, and they supported tho larty. They outnumber you overwhelm- ingly; so you must expect them to be considered as well as you." This expression was not only an insult to the gentlemen who were making i plea for morality and law. but to the whole body of consistent citizens who wish to preserve this city from moral ruin. ICowItmjy be considered pure business for an attorney to take up a case even when one side of ittnay be malodorous, and carry it Into the courts. Some attorneys are more particular than others In that re- PS gard. But when.au attorney ap- 1 pears before a legislative and delib- erativc and not a judicial assembly, 1 and seeks, by arguments and legal H references, to induce that body to H make an opposite action on a matter H A that it has already decided, ho goes B outside of the prerogatives of an pK attorney. He acts In a minncrthat figH Is not in unison with bis iro- g?t& fessiou. Thtre is no such license CHj in legal practice unless we RjS are wofully mistaken. Hence, jvfiK O. V. Towers appeared before the Tmgm c,tJ' Council last Tuesday ss a pri- EgH vate cltizeji, personally advocating Kg tlie full establishmentnd operation Jk of an evil that ' ls"Ju"lly4irt8B' gS everywhere as-ane of the m J3t dan- gL gerous to morals that can bd con- SftSMg- ceiTpq. TlieVartv Theatre as a j3giM9SVBiiHHlHHBHF have, so far as SFSSf'eT 'wa noted gKyMW'Sf the most debasing S&M1 exi5tence antl och CSiaureo ministers to and !KSgV'5rt f V:.l'-Iler two. ftgyBPn time that the eyes of all igyCgMSgtxUrKoule were opened to see not t$jmpKtKr only the evils that are increasing Smf " and enlarging in Silt Lake City, ggf bat to mike note of the conducing 53 causes, general and Individual? 8 This understanding will help in the S&5 furmulatloa and application of a jK3 curativeproces.'1. CSS 1 We have heretofore asserted, and j3hS report the enunciation, that the mK reformation of the morals of the Jg city is a work in which all it good ESg people can unite. Let all differences -fHg of sentiment and opinion bo laid fe' ' aside, that thare ruiy ba a vigorous jg- onslaught upon vice and lawless- Hfg ness. Let the object be sou;ht with SS full iunose; not as "Liberal-!," nor WKR as members of the Teople's Tartv- SSS nt as Democrats or RepubliranV K not a3 Trotestants, Catholics, or ES Luter-day Saints, but as a virtue- feSg loving human being interested in Egg the preservation of social purity and SAJj Kood order in this city. |
