| Show THE GENIUS OF liberalism THE evening organ of the ogden liberals says the men who instigated the reports causing marshal parsons to declare martial law in Ogden should be known and their business interests boycotted this is a specimen of liberal sentiment and is in accord with liberal practices business men with some regard for public decency were so scandalized at the flagrant immorality suffered to flourish unchecked by the Li liberal berall city authorities ties that they informed the united states marshal of the situation and he promptly endeavored to enforce the law in relation to the evils complained of this is the sin for which these business men are am to be I 1 boycotted liberal practice is if citizens will not vote the liberal ticket the use of every possible means to prevent their voting at all disfranchise the mormons cormons Mor mons what for because they will not support liberal candidates candidate and sand liberal measures so with business men who are opposed to liberal methods ot of americanizing American izing a town boycott their business in te rests this is liberalism in theory and practice the ignorance of the ogden liberal organ is as conspicuous as its malignity martial law indeed the united states marshal has not attempted to establish anything of the kind nor bas ban he be the power to do so eo if desired the liberal organ has confounded the words marshal and martial because of similarity in their sound neither has bas there been any attempt to establish marshal law in ogden there is no such thing in existence the laws attempted to be enforced are the statutes of the territory against glaring vices and after all the noise and up roar what has been done two or three gamblers have been fined the paltry sum of 15 each and a number of the them m have changed their location but not their business and that which was flaunted before the public is now retired to a certain degree of privacy whether this spasmodic effort will prove anything more than a semblance of regard for public morality remains to be seen but if the city authorities of ogden wish no further action in these matters by the federal officers they can avoid any future martial or marshal law by enforcing the city ordinances as they have sworn to do the whole affair is a striking exhibition of the genius of liberalism the same paper wishes it to be understood that ogden would prefer to be called a tough place by eastern people rather than to be called a mormon town and says give us toughness americanized etc well there is no accounting for taste respectable res pec table eastern people e would prefer the morality sobriety and good order of a mormon town to the toughness which the ag ogden den Li liberal berall organ so greatly admires no matter how much it may be americanized 1 they do not americanized gambling or americanized prostitution as anything better than the anglicized hied or Frenchi fied articles 41 toughs ball may admire a tough place but law abiding peace lov ing sober citizens will be attracted far more to a town with mormon characteristics which are world famed if falsehood to is silenced concerning it than to the toughest kind of lea a tough place where officers are abused for enforcing the laws and business men are boycotted for desiring their enforcement how would the business men of salt lake city and the supporters of wholesome provisions pro visions against the social vim vices of the age like to have the liberalism of ogden established and dominate in the capital of the territory |
