Show THE IR START lew NEW ELIAS SMITH EDITOR AND pub rUB PUBLISHER LISHER 20 1859 por the last six weeks or since about the time the court at provo commenced its see bloof till within a few days da s great salt lake city has hag been more quiet than usual during the last six bix or eight months A recurrence of late of some of the disgraceful scenes that transpired in in this once orice peaceful city cily last summer and fall and up to about the time referred to naturally ii duces induces a re flatie mind to inquire into he the causee causes that produce those things and to ask why they are more apt to occur under some circumstances tha than under others that there is 13 a cause for whatever transpires there can be no doubt but whether in this instance the fighting and that hias has occurred in the streets since ince the weather has become more mild is attributable to the return of spring or to some other seen or on seen agency that operates upon a certain class of men and makes them act like beasts in in fighting maiming and add seeking to kill their fellow beings is a question to be solved that perhaps all would not answer alike alik whatever the cause maybe if in its operation it is confined to rank it does not seem to be confined to colar neither does freedom nor bondage appear to exempt those ho put them selves in its way from beil bell being acted upon by it whenever circumstances favor those who spend most of their time in the streets in and around placed places where abere intoxicating drinks are vended bended at retail hether whether they thoy be the descendants of shem ham or Jap japheth beth and especially if they have recently been beh im imbibing are ars unquestionably from data more liable 1 to be overcome acted up upon oriand orland and made subservient sen lent lant to the unseen pow poa er that thus operates I 1 than those who are engaged in in some useful employment either from necessity or choice 1 of that class of beings who ho burden c commuso cities with their presence and tax them with I 1 their idlette idleness sa and crime this city has haa had I 1 within its precinct for a length of time a legion and the expense that has accrued in consequence of their presence and acts to the corporation and to the county has been more than double the amount that had been required to suppress adf and d punish crime and support pauperism from the first settlement in the i alley valley in in 1847 to july 1858 and there have been more murders committed and more blood shed in in the county within the last ei bigot i months than b be e 0 0 pre re r since bince its ita or 91 annat Z jatie katie r 0 0 one can presume to say that this fixate ate I 1 of ot Z t thin things i har haa been brought about without it so some bome me e motive power having been exerted in their generation and arid in our opinion there are few so blind or ignorant that they cannot see arid and understand the tile causes tha that have haye produced these results so long iong as those causes ca uses exist here it may be ex expected that such scenes will frequently transpire in in our streets as q have been beeh witnessed of late notwithstanding all the exertions that may or can be made to prevent their occurrence so soon as the advance of spring will permit the floating population that during the winter has BO so materially materiale mate riall swelled the number of transient residents in this city and territory will of course begin to move either east west or south which will to a greater or less leea extent have a tendency to produce a more desirable state of things than can possibly pos pcs sibly be realized till that exodus takes place we have many things to say concerning the past and the present condition of affairs I 1 1 in this territory not complainingly but simply to contrast truth with error virtue with vice and an impartial administration of justice alike to all the erring descendants of adam upon the ancient principle nn ciple of a clear vision naion with the modern principle of seeing r and arid acting only on one side or going it entirely blind but we have hai e not room nor time just now |