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Show Those Prudes for Party Purposes b &' r--iHE furious onslaught on the red light dis- K J trict, in some cases is to make one laugh. I - The anathemas of the Smoot organ show f that, with the experience of last year, remem bering how its spell of prohibition rabies was cured, Bolle London 's not very shrewd after all, else she would long ago have sent a season ; i ticket with all the privileges included to the ! editor of that sheet. The case of the News is quiet as sinister considering con-sidering that it for more than fifty years saw another red-light district grow up here, in the heart of the city, when the church of which it J& I K supposed to bothe organ, was in full control, and never thought the business needed so much as one protest ftom its versatile pen. It went still further. When some of the holy elders hired houses in the residence district and fully equipped them, the News, at least by its silence, approved of the 'startling innovation. It was doubtless one of these occasions when the News decided that the emergency made it necessary for the church to interfere in the government of the state. ' But there is a question which neither of the above saline Journals have ventured an Opinln on. If they are able fto succeed in their crusade, then it will be discovered that the evil has not been stamped out, but" it will be scattered all over I he city. The effort was made long 'ago when the city was but a village to do what the News and the Smoot organ ar& just now so furious to have 'done. It was made by a sincere Mormon Iriend. He called in a bunch of policemen and asked them it the evil had not been killed and they assured him it had been scattered from Fort Douglas to the Jordan. There are some things which a city ordinance cannot kill. |