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Show OGDEN WOMAN - HAS A HOBBY Writes Another Letter on the Necessity of Hounding the Wayward Girl Beyond the Confines of the City A Little Misquoting All is Fair in Love and War and the Lady is Engaged in War. out of profits of diunkenness and vice. J The Implication is not supported bv fact. Ed) AS the official custodian of that bridge It i your business n belp make it so safe (Lat a child may walk It alone. (This paper Is not the official custodian cus-todian of any bridge or of anything the bridge Is supposed to represent. Ed.) The object of all law and its enforcement en-forcement is to make It difficult tj do wrong and easy to do right." That there may be no doubt as to our position, we again lepent that this bridge Is unsafe -that we want It roado safe that In permitting these traps and pitfalls, i'nd in taking inoti-I inoti-I ey from those who profit by them, you are not representing us, i WHOM DO YOU REPRESENT? (Signed) LEOTA S. KENNEDY. Ogden, June $, 1910. tit gives us pleasure t3 know that we do not represent any cue who has no hand of charity for the erring child, and ono who would rather drie an Unfortunate jiirl to a suicide's grave than to open the door of hope. -Ed.) panlzation draws most of its mem bership. Most certainly not that of the Jewish Jew-ish people a people distinguished through past centuries for strict morality. mor-ality. Not of the Catholics with their rigid construction of the moral law. Not of the Mormons, for their pulpits have repeatedly spoken WTio then Is it that approves this wretched policy of paying the city's expenses out of the profits of drunkenness drunk-enness and vice (The city expenses are not paid Editor Standard: In Monday's Issue Is-sue you print, approvingly, an editorial edi-torial on a subject in which you give tho W. C. T. U. of Ogden the credit of having becomo prominent or late, this editorial being from a Jewish paper which says, in effect, that all men are immoral. Wo fall to neo why a community i which professes to be largely Chris- i vian should have quoted to It the ex- j prcsslons of a Jewish paper. Beside, we very much doubt if such views j meet with the approval of the Jews of Los Angeles or ot Ogden or of more than a small per cent of your own readers. I If, however, the men of this city aro content to acuulesco in such a coarse characterization of their morals H Is not for a woman's organization to rush to their defense. The W. C. T. U. recently adopted resolutions giving our views on tho saloon question and the policy of licensing li-censing and protecting vice in Ogden in return tor a share of the profits, (This statement is not truo. Ed.) You were pleased to defend that policy by making a counter attack upon our organization. You hold up the rescue work of the Salvation Army as a model for us to follow i wholly Ignoring iho fact that we have I for years been active in that work and were the founders of what Is now the Crlitenton home, which home has been, inoxt of the time, the only place to which the Salvation Army or any one else could bring anj girl vbom they would rescue. (This statement Is not correct. Th? writer paid the railway fare of two girls the Salvation Army rescued and sent them to the Rescue Home In California, and both girls are married mar-ried and havo become good mothers and wives. Tho Ogden Crlttenton home did not care to take the girls, claiming the parents, who lived lu Ogden, should protect the girls. Ed.) The resolutions we passed and the communications we have written do not, it appears, make plain what our policy is regarding these matters. Permit us to try again. You will remember that when you ' were a school boy back in Iowa In th little old red school houso on the hill (with no saloon in the valley) there was a selection In the fifth reader was it McGuffy'ts? In which , the author saw a wonderful vlslou. ; There was a swiftly How ing river r panned by a bridge tho "Bridge of Life." Across the bridge countless throngs of meu, women and child- . ten were passing. ', (Our school house was painted while and we had no such visions. Ed.. On the floor of the bridge were , many trap-floors, pitfalls and rotten places, through which people ot all ; .g.. s wire filling into the stream be- tuath, the liver of intemperance, vice : end siu. j Some people on the bridge shouted warnings to the other pedestrians, but often thee warnings were -of no avail. I In the stream helow the- bridge many victims were struggling against the swift current trjlng to reach the shore. There were a few people who tan along the bank and did what ther could to save the perishing. " But for the most part people weut ' their own way and paid no attention to the unfortunates in the river, or to the defects and dangers of the bridge. Now, I wish to make it plain that here hi Ogden the W. C. T. I'. Is determined de-termined to have that bridge repaired and made as safe as it Is possible for It to bo made. We shall still join with the Salva-tlou Salva-tlou army In Hie resclie work, but we mo al-o going to tlx this bridge, and ve trust that we will not be the only workers. . You virtually tell us that, being wo- men We do not know anything ab nit such things ami wo bad best run along mni help the Salvation Army lescm a few of the bridge's victims, and that others who know more than we. will attend t- the bridge. (We believe that the W. C. T. V. can do bi tter work in preventing the Innocent from fulling rather thau championing the cruel method of driving driv-ing the fallen out of the city, with no offer of even hope fo" something better Kd ) Our reply Is that we will also fi Ibe bridge. Yini say that bridge.- have always Ween dangerous i?iat 1his brid-.-e Is as good as nnv, that It Is a city bridge and thev are often built that way; that it is a good paying pay-ing proposition and that the cilv needs the money. (The above slatenient Is not correct. cor-rect. We have made no such statement. state-ment. E1.) Again we wish to reiterate that the revenue derived does not appeal to us. If th city is getting rmy money out of the vices and sins of the un-fortunatet. un-fortunatet. It Is contrary to our wishes as -lll,.i,. t- (We are sorry, but unfortunatelv ' Iho laws of tho State or Utah are re- ! tfpouslble for tho punishing of violators violat-ors of the law and, if the jude oxer- ' cUes his option to levy a line In- ! uead of prison sentences, this news- ' )apcr cannot help It. We would sug- r-t that Miss Kenned v have herself' ilected polico Judge. Then we would Mace tho responsibility where It be- , ons. Ed.) In levying toll on vice, the city ad-ministration ad-ministration Is not representing us vVe repudiate and denounce that pol- cy. (The city does uot levy toll on I flee; that Is bimply a stretch of the Jm-iijinailon. Ed.) It may be, as you say, that vice ran never be wholly done away witu. ' but ou do not have to take any of Jhe money which It niav offer as a jrrlbe to you to permit ft to flourish. Jn taking so much as one ce-jt of that iuonoy. you do not represent uh. (The lady deliberately places us In n wrong position when t-ho says a 4irlbo Is offered us to permit novthlng to flourish. The statement "is a gratuitous Insult. Ed.) Indeed, It Is difficult to see how you enn reproseut any considerable class of citizens or whoxe apnroral ou ..can possibly have Certainly not that tf the churches from which our or- |