Show THE CITY IS TO BLAME In one of his recent very verr excellent Sunday evening addresses the tIle Reverend Reverend Reverend Rev Rev- Mr MI Short pastor of the First l Methodist church speaking of or a arc re revealed revealed re- re condition of Immorality among the tIle youth of the city cUr exclaimed Listen to me I speak to you ou plain plain- ly lr Salt Lake City may not nul be bo worse than any other largo large city but shame sh-amo upon an any city or count county that allows such damnable places to exist And shame upon any people who by Indifference Indifference ference will allow such places to exist The people leople of this town should wake up and drive out these infernal dens of oC vice Are Arc the tho they in the tIle control of or the city government or tho the county government govern govern- mo ment t. t Whichever it may mar be we the citizens should demand that they be closed and if it we wo do not do our duty some like evil should befall oven us Who Is responsible We re regret to inform Mr Short that the city is responsible The city which is under the control of or the Kearns type of morality which has bas elected Toms Tom's choice to ever every office which possesses and abases the police force and which sets tho the desired marlof markI mark marl of morality for Salt Lake e and the nation na tiou tion is entirely to blame We e regret to say this because it will grieve Mr Short and other good goodmen goodmen men who have been led lell to understand that whatever er is 19 wrong hero is somebody somebody some some- body else's fault and whatever is good goodIs Is the result of or the presence and control control con con- of ot To Torn In the affairs oC of the com corn Sad as is tl the tho o it is the fault of the city cUr that it is not corrected General Stoessel the Russian officer who tried to defend Port Arthur Arlhur against the tIle Japanese armies Is confined con con- lined fined in a dark and damp prison and there his wife visits him daily Although Although Al Al- though his fortune enables him to have haye food of the daintiest It Is said Madame Stoessel brings him every ever everda da day some delicacy an delicacy an eloquent proof of her wifely devotion and a suggestion that thata a man who can can- inspire in such a woman such a n. loyalty can not deserve such punishment from a a. government so shockingly shocking bad as that of the czar I I Citizens of New York have hayo petitioned petitioned peti peti- President Roosevelt to take some sonic action against the police force of that city for breaking up the able gathering recently sought to be beheld beheld beheld held in Union Park at the time when an irresponsible anarchist sought to kill policemen with a a. dynamite bomb Ver Very likely the general impression is that the police wont wout too far There Is a a. right of assembly in the United States I Nobody who knows Jacob Bus RUs will believe the charge recently published that he be is making a selfish use of ot his settlement houses in the tho East SIde SIdo of ot Now v York Tile man mart have to 1 live ve there ther That he does docs that lie he I for tho the people there without regard to their race religion or color Is a a. lasting proof of his disinterestedness disinterested disinterested- ness ness- I r Those people In Sidewalk Extension No very Tery readily believe the city officials aro misusing them |