Show ITS REAL APPEARING THIS city was founded and for a long period of years was wan inhabited almost exclusively by the adherents of a religious organization under the discipline administered by their leaders the members member of that body received thorough training in what are called the christian virtues and had deeply Imp impressed upon their winds minds the necessity of being governed by those virtues in public as well as private relations under the genius of the public opinion thus created a policy polley of municipal control was pursued which aimed to maintain a high state of morality throughout the city vice in all its forms was diligently sought to be suppressed and if this was not completely accomplished any degree of failure attending the efforts made in that direction was due to obstacles interposed by courts officials and individuals who had bad the power and the willingness to shield wrongdoers wrong doers rather than any disposition upon the part of the majorey ma joity jorty of the people or members pf af the city government to tolerate public evils but the history of this city as a whole has been a very satisfactory one in respect to the vigor with which ioe has been suppressed and visitors without number have praised it without stint for its record in this regard its people and especially its youth have been preserved from temptation to a very great extent and its moral atmosphere has been for the most moot part comparatively pure and bracing but a change of atmospheric conditions in this respect to is at hand the municipal govern ment vests in the representatives of a political organization which if at radical variance with the one that thai foria formerly erly held sway away and the leaders of the party now in power have recently issued intimations of a change of municipal policy in respect to vice which they will insist upon the real nature of the party now la in power is beginning to appear more and more plainly in brief it is apparent that the extent to which the training of the old did residents will prevent the spread of vice adiong among them is shortly to be demonstrated it is soon to be shown how much power there is in the principles they have professed to proven prevent t them from imbibing wickedness when placed in a position that renders them helpless to prevent it from being thrust upon them and flaunted in their faces moral mora tests for young utah of a crucial character are close upon the sons and daughters of the people who created this commonwealth the liberal party of this city embraces men of honor and respectability who would be sorry to see vice gain the advantage in a contest with law and decency but this element is a minority so small that it will scarcely be able to even check the progress of the majority in its pursuit of the policy outlined by certain ILl liberal illiberal berAl leaders on the occasion when sunday concerts were under discussion and the defeat of the element which arrayed itself in opposition to sabbath desecration presages its defeat when the question of tolerating worse evils shall be under discussion in ellb liberal eral party councils As the success of the liberals Liberal sl in eap capturing turing the go government of this city will create a contrast in respect to political probity that will reflect an effulgent glory upon the party which formerly ruled it so also will the same change result in boudi conditions that will show in which 0 class of the inhabitants there resides the st ernest morality from social and religious points of view when to in the arena with temptation of all the youth among the mormons cormons Mor mons preserve their virtue and maintain their I 1 integrity it will be an ob object eject lesson lemon presented to the view of the whole world which will go far to counteract the prejudice that has been created through tho the efforts of the political self seek ers who are enjoy enjoying big present prosperity here wrong will work its own defeat and the fact that the pioneer class of utah are a people of destiny every turu in whose career has a significance in connection with the purposes of heaven will in time be amply shown |