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Show NOT RENOWNED FOR IMMORALITY In last week's issue of The Gunnison Valley News, Bishop K. L. Swalberg, who acted as chairman of the Citizens party in the recent city election, takes violent exceptions to the attitude of the majority of the voters in the selection of the city officials for the ensuing two years. Nol only does Bishop Swalberg characterize many as citizens with "mop rags as backbones," but he declares Gunnison is now renowned for its immoral influences and implies thai it is unfit to live in and not a safe place in w hich to rear our children. We would like to ask Mr. Swalberg if he has ever compared com-pared Gunnison with oilier towns in Sanpete county and in t be southern pari of l he stale or any other section of the West or t he United States, in so far as morality or crime is concerned. Does Gunnison till more jails than any other town in the state.' Are the moral conditions worse than any other city or town in tllo county:' Is the jail wc have here tilled with criminals!' Arc our streets filled With reeling drunkards' isn't it a fact that the morale of Gunnison is far ahead of any other city or town in the state:' If anyone will stop and make a -clear Analysis of the true conditions they will find Gunnison far ahead of other places, and that it is a til place to rear children. 1 The News wants to flatly deny in the face of Mr. Swalberg's statement, that (iunnison is not "immoral and unlit to live tin'.' And if the writer of the article that, would stamp this city as a "hell hole" simply because the city election went against him, he must he classed as a "poor sport and a poor doser." |