| Show ALWAYS HAS H BEEN I The most unreasonable argument that is over ever advanced in behalf behal of I tho vices of ol Electric alloy alley alle and 1111 gambling Instead of or prohibiting I thorn them Is IB tho the old one that these theBe arc are H ory ry old problems and amid vexed the first moralists Shall we then continue to meet these lIw problems In Identically the tamo ranie 1 that the UlC first moralists met fuel them that is by b I shaking our OUI heads sadly anti and saying It is too loo t o bad baCh h d that certain classes of or people will indulge In these evils but hut since they ther do 10 we ve might as well take our share of the themon money mon cy Does a well enforced law prohibit prohibiting ing jug murder murdel keep down the crime erlmo bet bettor tor than a n system of fines would do That Is tho the question It is probable that the first city cit fathers and the lie first editors who sho faced laced these problems assumed the tho same attitude that IK is being assumed in Ogden today That Is because they ther wore men The Tho mothers are arc not Ilot talking about the problem being a hopeless one by any UJ means And there thore are arc cities both eat east and anti west vest of oT us that have hae successfully met mid routed these two evils eils There Is a growing resentment against these evils olIs that is gradually spreading nil all over the United State States Staten I 1 mi nO n l the Uie feeling Is growing all the time that America ought flIght to he bo able to anti and is able to settle a great many moral difficulties that have not been heen seriously attempted by the older cotta cOlin cOlinI I trios tries I And pray above all things dear I brothers dont lOnt as you ou value alue the tho morals of or the young people of Ogden use an argument that Is more degrading than these evils themselves It Is as a un tin untrue true as it Is degrading And Auth above all remember that the statement is not true that law does dOGg not Ho make mako people moral Law does loes make people where it Is well en enforced enforced forced Wo see ee law every day la It If makes mal es earth a cleaner cleanor better hettel anti and purer place to live People will partake of their thell environ environment envIronment ment fluent If city cil councils if mayors and anti if editors would woul only say sa these things can cnn be prohibited Ogden would bo be o a better place inside of a year eal It would h b i 75 76 per por coat cent better bottea Wo We are arc not nor claiming that It II would bo he per pel cent better hettel But something Ins better helter j worth striving for fol oven even if It does not nol mean perfection In the words of Ar AI Arthur Arthur thur Hugh Clough j I Say fa not the tho struggle nought i iThe The labor and the wounds are arc vain aln I Tile The enemy enem faints not nor nOI i I And as things have been h cn they tilo re ro remain romain i main I If hopes were ere dupes fears may mao bo be liars It II may be in yon on smoke concealed conce lcd Your comrades chase cha e een cen now the filers erti ertiA And A nd but hut for you ou possess pO the tho field 1 For F r while the tho tired waves vainly j I breaking Seem hore bore no painful Inch Ii gain I Far F I hack back through creeks and Inlets Inlet 1 making malting Comes silent flooding In the tho main i I And not nol by eastern e windows only on I ITlen I When daylight comes comes In the tho light t i i In ln front the tho sun su climbs slow Alow how slowly But Dut westward look the land Jand Is I bright t |
