Show WHAT AN INNOCENT SCHEME Now tho the fellows who financed the tho stockade deal are aro urging the legislature legis legislature legislature legis legis- lature to enact laws which will permit per pr nut mit the police to make legal something something some some- thing that is Illegal make right light s something some me thing that Is wrong make permissible something that Is Impossible They want the state slate of Utah to authoritatively I U ch officially and solemnly declare that civilizations civilization's law lar against licentiousness licentiousness licen licen- shall be ho repealed They want the state to take lake the authority of saying that a forbidden act uel may be permitted that tho the red light business I may be allowed and that the police shall regulate it That is a vor very nice scheme And the minute the tho state of Utah should enact such uch a a. a law which law which It Is never going to come como within a thousand miles of doing the doing tho er very fellows who now suggest it would l shriek in horror at atthe atthe atthe the perfidy of the Utah legislature There will be no law taw by ly Iho tho state making legal the business of or the red red- light Mark that and then forget it it And It never should be done There Is fa an au underlying r reason for the tho attitude attitude attitude at at- of the community Maybe sin sinS S will not utterly and entirely be But because there Is occasional occasional occa occa- I lonal theft It will not do for society J to try and regulate stealing Because there thore Is an occasional fi fight ht it will not do for society to say that assault and battery may be permitted under regulation rog reg And If the thing Is unthinkable unthinkable unthinkable able in these vices Ices which pale palo Into Insignificance in comparison with tho the awful wrong of oC tho red light how howshall howshall howshall shall society make mako exception in that more aggravated case and stand acquit Men ren aro are not yet perfect They are getting a little nearer right over every overy da day The progress may seem slow slon Those with false faIs view points ID may Y think there thero Is no progress at nil all But there Is There always has been Man Ian never fell Man Ian has been rising for millions of years And he lie Is going to keep cep on ou rising until rIsing until the perfect day There Thore mist lust be no backward step no concessions In the twentieth century cen con tury to nn an evil which has been reprobated reprobated bated for forty centuries and centuries and more The people of ot Utah and the people of Salt Lake cannot say Hero Here is a n wrong v-rong thing which you will be permUted permitted per vcr mUted to do Society must stand strong and clear all the time on tho solid soUd rock of prohibition of ot wrong ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is the only logical tho the only possible position The Tho transparent plan to throw this burden on the state is entirely futile And It should be so |