Show S FROM l Tim TIlE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE from the New York legislature legisla- legisla ct Some Somo kindly gentlemen turn turf have sent ent to the tho legislature of Utah a communication asking for tor assistance In getting adopted a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy and reciting the thu baleful bale bale- fill ful effects of ot that institution In helpless Utah et S Wo Yo can not speak peal In terms of too hl high h corn commendation commenda- commenda menda- menda Ion tion of ot the men of the New York legislature who take al althis all S this trouble for the redemption of Utah Utah Utah-a a state which S they thoy can cm see seo from flom the banks of the tho Hudson Is In a bad wn way and wholly Incapable of taking laking care caro of ot Itself We 0 trust the tho le legislature of Utah will tao take steps 5 5 5 Jo to secure an Indorsement of the New York plan and and 5 will never bo be backward In aiding and abetting when the they find And people willing to take care care of our redemption for us Of course there Is no new polygamy In Utah and has In been nono none for or years and It Jl Is not likely there ever again ogain will be The rhe Mormon Monnon church has pronounced agaInst It It and In good faith Is seeking to prevent a n single S S fn Instance tance of violation of ot the church rule The la laws las s 's of the tho tho S state and of pf the nation are arc opposed to It H. The sentiment of or tho the ago all nil over Christendom is against it H. H and it fl seems hardly likely there will be bo an any moro more polygamy ever in Utah after tho the less Jess than four hundred men mennow c. c now living JI In that relation relation out out of a n population of 3 O.- O. I. I the the men who began that relation before the passage rSS J 5 of or the law Jaw or Issuance of the manifesto have concluded I ll r their labors and have hayo passed awa away I i t But Dut it is a thing we all appreciate when tt our morals and our status are corrected b by persons from froma r distance i a r And that reminds us A proper sense of or f f tion can not but suggest that we direct the labors of f Jh the h New ew York legislature for it a time Nothing less than tl that at can bo be expected of us if lC we we show a proper spirit of thanks for the Interest New ew York has has' taken in the good of oC Utah I S We Ve observe by the public prints from fron New ow York t om tho the telegraph reports that New fe York correspondent orres corres orres- S send out to tho the rest of the world that there thero IsS Isa Isa is isa S a region west of Broadway and generally extending from S Twenty-third Twenty street to Fort second Forty and anti Including both i 1 r S. S ot both those thoroughfares which territory is g gentt gen gen- nt nr n- n t orally and and broadly called the Soubrette Region We are ae credibly informed that it itIs Is largely largel occupied so so far farS farl f iy- iy l S as its residence portion is is concerned b by ladies ladles of ot easy S j 0 virtue by no means exclusively confined to the avocations S of the soubrette whoso whose sources sources of ot money Inco income o are r found in iii the checks given them b by bank bankers rs and merchants mer mer- I. I chants hants and business business men In the town down town down districts of New w. w Yo York k cl checks from lawyers and capitalists checks S from architects tR and antI artisans from rom professional men of the more affluent class checks generally from men who S have homes and wives and children and position in S. S social rocial life and in churches and in tho the seemly circles S w where ere persons without stains on their escutcheon ma may mayS S S very properly move S it It Interests Interests Interests' us to note that the lad lady population of ot the tho Soubrette Region commonly called the Is rarely seen In public In the tho t company of ot men who proS prot provide pro pro- S vide vicle their theil means for rent and t I kitchen comforts Every Ever 1 5 5 criminal trial of r the gr great at New ew York metropolis reveals S the appalling fact that a condition and not a theory confronts the New York rork people It can not bo be contended th that the r relations of these ladles ladies and the S men who proS pro'S provide provide pro pro- S 'S vide vide for tor th them m Is moral It will not be pretended even by themselves that it Il is sustained b by any law la lawS S excepting that unwritten law which authorizes every everyone 5 one ono to do as ho he lIk likes s. s And we vo are sure suro the tho New York f r legislature will thank us Uso of Utah for taking tho the Initiative InitiativeS InitiativeS' S' S in what must Inevitably bo be o a great greal service to them Il Let t the tho legislature of oC Utah its prove provo appreciation o otho of oC the tho kindly interest of the New York legislature by a ask askIng askS ask ask- kIng k- k ing for constitutional a constitution amendment to the national 1 S charS charter char char- S ter of ot all our liberties providing for tho the depopulation of tho the Tenderloin Let tho the constitution of or the tho United States declare in positive terms that there is no Tender Tender- loIn join loin that the tho Soubrette Region like human slavery and the e clipping of ot coins be and hereby is a back number a aS S closed j d Incident a u thing that has vanished Think of ot the tho good wives of or upper New York who t give tl their sedate husbands permission 7 to go down town to a 3 a. a directors directors' rs' rs meeting for the iho S evening and know in their hearts that they can find them in West rest Fort second Forty second street dancing tho the can-can can with a bevy of or pretty young yS I women familiarly c. c characterized as ts s undressed kids who dont don't know where their last husbands are arc Think of or the children in the tIre neighborhood of ot Morn Morn- t Park who wouldn't dare duro off ore get tho the car at al Tier Herald l Square and tU buy a n a paper without running the o or of i meeting a sheaf of ot ostrich plumes that were paid for fr ou out f of th tho same purse which gave up the car fare and paper pape money i How many mon men In good health with a 0 sudden Hudden InS Inri in increase In- In ri- ri S cr crease e of or Income have Induced young women to quit t f S d decent cent walks of life fro where there was as moro more work than thai IS Ii S pa pay and more tedium than happiness and anti come como down t to 5 the Tend Tenderloin where tho the lights are always bright t to peate wl within a 0 block of ot Broadway where the lIfo life of ot th the theS S nation nation pulses to establish themselves In apartments which which which-In In n virtue thc they might never nover know and and- there revel through a n season or two I with h wIno wine and leisure and plenty I of clothes clothes and th then the hop Joint and the tho river S These Thes are frightful conditions Tho The unspoken plea of tho the neglected wives is loud In our ears oars for the tho corr correction cor cor- r of ot that frightful plague Tho The shamed surprise of oC the children who meet women more moro favored than their mothers 1st Is a silent prayer to tho the rest est of or tho the country to torise torise torise rise up and save v New York And the bubbling Cl cry of or these young oung v. v women who find find-at ht t the end of a year d 1 1 I 4 t. that they are aro better to die dlo an and ond end it all comes up from the circling eddies at the edge of ot the North river piers comes comps to us from the drunken profane commotion of or the tug th that t picks them up comes to u us from forn the slab In tho morgue with th the tho wat water r dripping forever over It And Arid we know New York would woul thank the nation for getting a n con constitutional amendment nt which will save that state stale from Crom the evil which It Is not able to itself crush out Th There Thero ro is nothing like brotherliness and reciprocity In morals Of or COUI course o we wo of or Utah have our problems and polygamy Is one of ot them But Dut wo have built so 80 many railroads have havo developed so o man many mines have erected so many runny homes In which all tIre the the virtues of or life lIfo are sacredly guarded have havo erected PO so man many Christian churches In iii which the Gospel of ot peace Peace Is regularly preached ha have reclaimed so man many farms from the the desert des lIes crt ert have sent so man many young youn men to tho tIre wars under the fla flag of the tho Union havo have so devoted ourselves cs to to the line fine old doctrine of minding our o own business that wo probably probably probably proba proba- bly need the a advising aid of or the New York legislature And nd of course we wo are are within limits grateful to get It H. |