Show T Tt THE TI-IE E REFORMED RE NEWS NEVIS t These are arc troublous and twist twisty days a 8 for fOI the News It h has ls a case of awful mental menial t I on t r nothing n assimilates with its rebellions rebellious stomach There is an un old expression to the effect enceL tb that t when a young man never sows any allY wild oats in his R youth he is prone to break out later in life often to the distress of his family It r i is the sane same with I Ithe the morals of a newspaper That is is what is worrying worry worry- i in ing the Nc News vs nowadays s 's For 1101 quite half a century it was not disturbed h by br anything that happened in the city government J There here 1 were ere gross gross defalcations defalcations- i the News never ne winced There was a steady absorption absorption tion of the peoples people's money and nothing to show for fel the it-the News figuratively b rubbed its hands and amI smiled All the vices were given full play but so long as the regular revenues were collected the News was mum save at times when their presence was ascribed 1 to the coming in of Gentiles Gentiles' and find then tearful apostroPhes apostrophes apos apos- were delivered over o the purity of the city before it was contaminated by Gentiles In those das days d there was one Mormon ormon sermon which the News didd did not report The News News' had been inveigling inveighing against the Gentiles for liquor selling saying there were were no saloons until the Gentiles came of course it ignored the fact that in in plenty plent of ot houses with and the all all- Holiness to the Lord over the door seeing eye eye- on the lintel an article of valley tan could be ie got three drinks of which would cause a man to togo togo togo go out and steal a horse Well one night Mayor 1 Little in his ward meeting meeting meet meet- ing b house took up the theme and told how much I liquor was being consumed in the city how man many Gentiles were here her and then showed by perfect mathematics that if the Gentiles were doing all ull the drinking b they must consume over five gallons per pel day dar for each man woman child and nursing babe in the whole number The careless News never published published published pub pub- that sermon But as we were saying the News was wrapped up in contentment in those days so far far- faras as the city government was concerned When the police in those days fatally beat a man in the jail and then flung flans him kiln out to the mob the News gave a realistic description of the heroic fight which those policemen police police- men made against that mob until overpowered When the holy elders established and equipped some houses of ill HI repute and enlisted and enlisted the police to assist them the News had bad no word of criticism Indeed Indeed In In- deed it has always been understood that the News contributed its full quota to the nefarious fund We Ve have before stated how it fought back every sanitary measure measure proposed and how when the peole people peo peo- f P pIe le on the north bench cried for water the News informed informed in in- formed them that they were outside the water district district dis dis- and had no claims whatever on the city for wat water In other words in those days there was no more despicable newspaper published in all aU the world than the Deseret News But read it now See how the gray wolf of morality is rending its vitals It sees nothing but graft and criminal extravagance in the city government govern govern- government me ment nt nothing but ruin for the city unless the old pure government can be restored Old residents scratch their heads beads at this and remark U What a fearful spectacle is presented when a wave of reform reform reform re re- form sweeps over the head of a long life-long reprobate And then they fist laff |