Show ABOLITION OF MORMON MORALITY ONE of the leading local questions of the hour is shall the sabbath be practically abolished and vice and immorality be let loose in salt lake city the chiefs chiefe of the liberal party and the gentile city council have answered this interrogation in the affirmative social ions and irreligious doings have lately been winked at now they are being openly permitted by action of the council we predicted in the first place that such would be a result of the victory of the liberals by processes of fraud at the recent election we might venture to cate in the same direction without fear or danger of being mistaken that the present leanings to immorality are ace but symptoms of a festering disease which will yet break out in putrid sores the final result will be that the corrupt ors will be execrated in course of time comparisons of the past and the near future will be made and from a moral standpoint they will be immeasurably favorable to the former regime which was characterized by commendable conservation for the moral health of the community the gentile or antl anta fW mormon ormon administration bids fair to become a monster of such hideous mein that the good among men familiar with the past history of salt lake will execrate it ja was predicted in these columns the fight made by the resident clergy of the mec sectarian tarlan churches in favor of the preservation of the christian sabbath culminated last night in their defeat this was naturally to be expected for two leading reasons the first was the disposition of the council as a body the second the puny character of the representative of the ministers B R G ce in his speech before the council april 22 the latter was made the butt for irony it was bad taste and worse judg ment to select as a delegate on an important subject one who was lately sued for having exhumed unknown to her husband the body of a deceased lady from its grave in mount olivet cemetery because the widower had failed to pay a three dol lar water tax on the burial lot the scathing rebuke pronounced upon mr and his associates in that transaction by mr varian and judge powers is still fresh in the public mind and seeing that it was generally if not universal universally lf conceded to be richly deserved the influence fi of the second gentleman named cou d not well be great on any subject no man to whom the remark of the great teacher strain at a gnat and swallow a calep properly applies has much weight with his fellows on any subject involving a high moral or religious principle it was almost pardonable although not by any means couste under the circumstances for innuendoes to be thrown out by those present at last fast nighta session about taking up collections 1 I it looks as if some of them had been reading the lecture delivered by the rev mr poster foster on decare are all clergymen frauds his conclusion was an affirmative one on the ground that they do not believe their own teachings this was too sweeping but there is more of something else than there is of poetry in his assertion so far as relates to a great many of the class on which he treated anyway if the rev bev had not appeared upon the scene at all it is likely that the victory of the advocates of the practical abolition of the christian sabbath would not have been so dunce as it was one thing was evident last night as clearly as the position taken on the movement that the clergy are held in prominent liberal quarters in no small degree of contempt hereafter sunday band concerts with a charge for admission will be common the a application of the cL liberal iberal bant band having been granted we believe that the action of the council is in violation of the territorial statute quoted in these columns a short time since in treating on en the subject now considered it to is questionable however after the treatment accorded mr last night ul lit 1 whether the ministers Ano association clavil ion will have sufficient backbone and consistency to take steps to test the matter in the courts |