Show LET ALL GOOD CITIZENS UNITE AN EVIL genius lias has specially permeated this city for a year past the results are alar alarming man I 1 rat the law and order citizens at the race at which vice and immorality are increasing should they go ou on unchecked the day is not distant when the lawless element will have complete control andl ertme run riot tin in the community throughout the whole process of retrogression from peace and good order to a reign of vice and terror one oae figure stands out in particular prominence that of orlando W powers he carried the election of last february for the liberals for a consideration he was openly paid ten thousand dollars I 1 for the job the fraudulent processes by which the result was achieved are notorious in the community we do dlo not allude to the frauds of last february with the mere object of raking up the disgusting embers of the past the purpose is to point a moral and show that every seed that is planted brings forth of its kind according to a na aw hence when a farmer plants an onion he does not expect to reap a potato so 80 also when the seeds of political briars and stinkweed stink weed are sown it would be insanity to anticipate a crop of lillies and grapes the present crop of crime and corruption is the natural harvest of such an election aion as was conducted by mr powers at the opening of last year we are aware that many good people trained with the liberal party at the time referred to had they been fully aware of the frauds that were being perpetrated they would bably have hesitated to say the least if they bad anticipated the results which are now self evident to every beholder they would not have given such a cause aid and encouragement but they did not expect what they now confess ehleb ex to an alarming extent and which now r appals appala them months ago many leading non u cormons mormons Mor mons 1 had their eyes opened to the state of affairs which every good g citizen deplores the clergymen aa an early stage odthe flood of corruption corrupt ij even before it gained full headd headway perceived the drift of affairs and present rigas they did on this questions onh all lovers of sobriety virtue and good gi order appealed to the city council to take steps toward arresting the cou COL of vice this brought mr powers powei theten the ten thousand dollar politician the front he with unabashed affre ery for which he is noted stated th t during the campaign preceding the last municipal election it was true th t the clergymen had bad been consulted but so also had bad the gamblers and loon keepers he was also op appo to having the condition of this city good this expression from the paid poll pc ical autocrat scarcely needs an e it meant this if it m me anything it is all very well for y clergymen and other people in sylva sj pathy with you to claim that the t L arall era city government should take ate st toward the suppression of drun kenn sunday concerts gambling the 0 oj abing of brothels and the like you 5 have some claim owing to the sup you gave the party and the pro made to you during the campi campag but you see promises were also mad mi to the whisky sellers gamblers and others in that line and they supported the party they outnumber you avex ovex 0 so you must most expect th to be considered as well as you this expression was not only an I 1 sult suit to the gentlemen who were ma m ing 3 plea for morality and law but lu the whole body of consistent claiz who wish to preserve this city fr moral ruin now it may be considered pure bu bi ness for an attorney to take up a c even when one side of it may be n odorous and carry it into the cour cou some attorneys are more than others in that regard but wl wh an attorney appears before a legi tive five and deliberative and not a judica assembly and seeks by arguments i a legal references to induce that bod be to make an opposite action on a M mal t that it has already decided he g outside of the prerogatives of anat ney he acts in a manner that Is n in unison with his profession the th is no ho such license in legal practice u i less we are woefully mistaken hen 0 W powers appeared before the ca C council last tuesday asa as a private caw c soup xen personally advocating the full establishment and operation of an evil that is justly regarded everywhere as one of the most dangerous to morals that can be conceived the variety theatre as a rule no exceptions have so ao far as w wa can learn ever been noted combines three of the most debasing social phases in existence and each one of the three ministers to and feeds the other iwo two Is it not time that the eyes of all good people were opened to see nut not only the evils that are increasing and enlarging in salt lake city but to make note of the con conducing causes general and individual this understanding will help in the formulation and application of a curative process we have heretofore asserted and repeat the enunciation that the reformation of the morals of the city is a work in n which all its good people can unite let it all differences of sentiment and opinion be laid aside that there may be a vigorous onslaught upon vice and lawlessness let the object be sought with full purpose not as liberals nor as members of the peopled people Is party not as democrats or republicans not as protestants catholics or latter day saints but as virtue loving human beings interested in the preservation of social purity and good order in this city |