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Show ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT INSTITUTIONS. A news item a few mornings ago informed in-formed us that a young foreigner with a Greek name- had been arrested for following and insulting two young ladies la-dies on our streets. On being arrestod he tried, to brihn thr officer with Ave dollars-to release him Wo do not intend to apologize for the Greek: his wns almost an unpardonable unpar-donable offense. But Is It not possiblo the fellow was under tho influence of liquor? That he was dmnk? In a city which licenses 50 saloons for tho express purpose of making men drunV? No man's wife or daughter is safe from Insult from drunken men on any street of our city. Thq Greeks who make ther hoad-quarters hoad-quarters In Ogden, when they arrive in this country rank high among the emigrants of southern Europe for sobriety so-briety and industry. They are at heart admirers of America and American institutions. in-stitutions. They soon find that one of the great institutions of this lnnd of liberty is the saloon. There aro fifty saloons In Ogden, and each oie is doing ita best to educate edu-cate tho young Greeks in the noble art of boozing. What they aro doing for tho Greek, thoy are doing for the Italians, the Austrlans and tho Japanese. It Is humiliating to hear Americans Kood business men soriouslv arguing argu-ing that we must corrupt and de-.bauch de-.bauch these young foreigners In order to get their wages away from them and got it in circulation. Yet that policy finds many defenders. Thfl offort at bribing the officer was a perfectly natural act on the part of tho ignorant young foreigner In a city ruled by the saloon element. What more natural than to suppose that money would buy immunity from punishment? pun-ishment? We should look to the future. We should remember that we are making history every day as a city. In years to come men will tell the story, sitting by their firesides, in Grece, Italy and Austria, of that far wostern cltv, in that far western republic, re-public, whore money was abundant' and where fifty grog shops' bought "the' privilege to corrupt men, rpb. them of their eonses andBend thomhomo to weeping wives and flrclesjf hearths, and where tho foreigner was Induced to drink and gamble, that his hard-earned hard-earned savings might be put in circu-' circu-' lation. |