Show POINTERS FOR THE COMING ELECTION SEVERAL ministers ou on sunday took up the subject of local politics they did this in a perfectly legitimate manner that is ip they did not espouse any party cause or intrude their personal proclivities into the domain of religion but they discussed the effects of certain political influences upon the morals and general welfare of this city that we may not be open to the charge of any bias in this matter we make extracts from their utterances as reported in the liberal organ rev bev B R 0 in his discourse argued that the individual Is largely ay his surroundings P that if a child is raised amid good surroundings he will grow up a good man mad 01 and that therefore we should give our children a chance to begin life here under circumstances that will tend to make theta them and if we fall fail to remove the demoralizing element god will justly condemn us as unworthy the trust he gave us he said further in a little over a mouth month from now the city administration will be changed 9 and if the christian people act wisely and faithfully they can do much towards reformation things have not gone right in our city for the past two years looking from a moral standpoint our city is getting eting a bad name throughout the land we e have not had the protection from lawlessness to which we were entitled A number of our citizens have been waylaid and robbed on the streets of our city while no criminal has been punished for it it must be conceded that this is a terrible reflection upon those whose business it is to see that the laws are enforced some time ago a prominent bustness business maii man told we me that he was afraid to ge out on an the streets after dark there has been no improvements in the morals of df the city lor for the post past twenty years when then the city came into Amer american loan ha bands d we had a right to expect that our rig rights would be looked after but we did not 4 experience any relief I 1 we have about one hundred saloons here some of theta them fitted up like palaces whose main business is to corrupt the morals of men 4 the gambling dens are one of the worst features of the city A thoughtful man tells me that any evening one can see from to young mon mea in a certain gambling house in this city the enforcement of tle the laws against these and this the other evils is a sad and shameful farce A member of the church told me a few ago that he tried for two months 24 t have ve th the city citi aa authorities bariti qui c close I 1 a u up a disreputable 1 to 11 house ouse th in his neighborhood but they reagin paid no attention to him until he th threatened ed to call upon the united states marshal 1 I am told that there was wag alist a list of twenty two disreputable houses names and locations placed in the hands of those whose duty it was to report them to the grand jury but they did not do this and even went out of their way to cast reproach and slander upon a much respected honorable and conscientious man because of a slight error in keeping his accounts the way to proceed to dose close the saloons and gambling houses is not to vote for a man who drinks and gambles the gentleman might have stated if he had bad not desired to make his re mar marha as easy as possible that not dot only had there been no improvement 12 over the former condition of affairs but as he be admitted on a previous pub public lc occasion there has never been anything like the deplorable immorality and lawlessness anat have prevailed since what he calls Amor american imn hands took the reins of municipal government regj B thrall touched the subject gingerly he thought our city council above the average but added men have been put in positions for political reward where they have been under the control of chevery the very evils they were to suppress I 1 this is a grave mistake and must be corrected at whatever cost and sometimes it costs the dissolution of the party which adopts such a policy there is coming another election I 1 am one who believes in parties as something necessary to carry on elections I 1 am not one who bolts every time I 1 see som something ething in my party I 1 do not like I 1 see things in the other party I 1 do not like so why lump from the frying pan into the fire but there comes certain times when a man must stand by his principles cost what it may this brings us down to the responsibility of the individual in political action 1 I do not like those politicians who are agreeing with your right principles and virtuous theories but are opposed to you when you try to put those theories into practice if christian P people stand by their principles principle how can they support a party that depends upon the very elements that constitute or foster the evils complained ol of how can they train with and under those politicians who thus talk virtuous theories when it suits their purpose but are opposed to ti them in actual practice rev bev mr clay showed the powers of government as an instituted of god for the good of mankind but said 61 these powers are to protect the people in the enjoyment of all of their privileges as men and citizens they are to be a terror to evil boerm never did god expect rulers to go hand band in hand with the lawless elements of a community no provision is made in gods word for bribery and corruption it is always condemned rulers all rf rights lit conferred either by y god or man me when w en hey tolerate vile dens aed occasionally mulct them in fines and then allow them to continue in their iniquitous course this makes the rulers as guilty of crime as the actual criminals we elect men to enforce not to evade or overthrow them 11 htwe are to part of the tae giove ro ta pan hence we are responsible for its rl right g t or wrong doin doing g it is therefore a question of greater concern to us than if we lived under some other form 1 among the many difficulties in our way may be enumerated the following i party spirit the spoils system the fear of the rule of our op opponents the rule of bosses and saloons too too many men are in in office for what they can make the office the spoils are kept in sight men seek office on this account it is not true it never has been true nor will it ever be true that the country or city will be ruined if our opponents rule it yet this is the song of the demagogue it is a doleful tun tune to sing it is false no matter who is ia governed by it our greatest danger is from the bosses these men who cut out work for the primaries in the saloons are the ones who rob the people of their votes saloons ought not to control municipal affairs our duty is to vote for good men and not for party no other way to be free this insures good officers the professing christians in salt lake can elect good men if they want them but they must maintain their independence do right and fear not these are the utterances utterance of preachers who have heretofore helped the so go called liberal 12 cause their de denunciations strike home to that faction let the decent people of salt lake city pay attention to them while it to is true that the community will not be ruined because the other party whichever it may be has gained political control yet it cannot be fairly disputed that a faction dependent upon the very worst elements of society for its support cannot be expected to raise its moral tone or reader it all that christian people desire it to be an election is approaching and evert ayery respectable member of society whether he be religiously inclined or not should see to it that such euch meu men are elected to municipal office as a will not be under the control of those political bosses who we are in league with the liquor gambling and social evil elements and to whose influence the present deplorable condition of our city is fit directly traceable pure government can only come from pure men A change is ia most desirable and we hope that the people will see to it if next february that the change shall I 1 be of the necessary character |