Show THE MORALITY OF THE CITY the liberals 10 were enabled ly fraud to seize the reins of government of this city vice has flourished and blomo blossomed ined to an extent never before known in this municipality nici the members of the ministers association are entitled to a modicum of credit for the efforts they have lately put forth to stem the torrent the gloss is 18 taken off from the christian endeavor however by the fact that in their anxiety to join church and state together they gave material aid in placing in political power the party which nourishes vice and points the finger of contempt and derision at virtue of course there are many members of the opposition who do not take this reprehensible stand but as a whole it is undeniably the party of loose morality one thing that specially obliterates the gloss from the recent efforts of the reverend gentlemen of the association to is that they themselves belong to the party in power one would suppose from the turn matters have taken of late that they would take a humble seat mat on the stool of repentance and then hasten to come out of babylon baby ion f whatever may be the shortcomings of the gentlemen to whom we refer we certainly sympathize with any effort they may put forth in favor of the maintenance of good morals and the duppre suppression sa ion of vice hence our desire for their success in the attempt made by them to preserve the sanctity of the sabbath by seeking ta prevail upon the city council too to enforce the ordinances against certain late encroachments encroach ments in that direction that have become notorious to rious some of the insinuations thrown at the delegate of the association when be appeared before the council were by no means generous especially that embodied in one special remark we have got rid of one hierarchy hie rachy and dont want to er erect act another but all men are liable to acte W contemptuously treated when their endeavors are directed in the higher channels tt it might be well for the ministers to take up a personal labor with orlando W powers on account of the potent influence influx ence he be wields as a politician over the liberal city officials should success attend an effort at his conversion it is not improbable that something may be done to induce the city council and officers to take effective steps to stem the tide of and illegal conduct that has lately begun to flow judge powers says he does not want to see the people of salt lake too good whether this desire is based upon an apprehension on the part of the astute politician that in the event of popular goodness reaching a high state of development he would be left behind in uncomfortable isolation we are not prepared to say whether or not this is the mee case is best known to himself be this ai as it may there seems to be no immediate prospect of an excess of goodness showing itself as a result of liberal rule after operating on judge powers the ministers might give some attention to a new field for christian endeavor which is suggested by the following from the issue of may ath of the paper which the clergy mews mens association have regarded as their journalistic oracle there was quite a crowd at the driving park yesterday where numerous horses were trotted about for the admiration of the crowd hike fitzgeralds cigar shut out jack smi smitha s black gelding in a mile raw race and then served thoro bergs horse the same way winning 40 40 and 10 purses respectively besides some side bets beta time 2879 and A crowd will be out next sunday here is horse racing gambl gambling ipg and general noisy desecration of the sabbath in a wholesale way the most disreputable attempts have lately been made to paint the moral past of this city black in order to excuse the looseness of the present and probable deep depravity of the not very distant future yet day after day innovations upon the domain of decency are being chronicled that have hereford he had corn com ively no existence within this municipality thus the logic of facts smashes the cre refuge orefuge fuge of lies 9 those who voice the moral senti ment of the majority of the people latter day saints can do some thing toward preventing the city being overwhelmed with the more debasing phases of modern civilization by raising their voices against corrupting innovations the majority can at least as a body keep aloof from the degrading moral eon con dagion now steadily gaining ground but the christian ministers ought to have a much more potent influence in the field of actual work as ah the labor necessarily must be conducted among their own kind in a political sense judge powers consulted the clergymen on matters pertaining to the late municipal election he also consulted on the same subject the elass referred to in the paragraph quoted above how would it do to have another VI all round consultation with a view to stopping the stream of wickedness whose volume is rapidly swelling seeing that the members of the ministers association engaged in election campaign work they are entitled to have some influence upon the preservation of a respectable degree of moral purity in this city their recent course after laboring ineffectually with the city council has not much power confining their efforts to preaching special discourses upon the sanctity of the sabbath and the beauty of sound morality As reproof and exhortation have by many of them to be directed toward vacant seats mats such treatment is largely abortive active work in which officials who are neglecting their duty and lawbreakers law breakers who are demolishing moral safeguards can be reached to is the only labor that will count against existing wrongs |