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Show 1 A SALT LAKE CRITICISM. The Salt Lake Herald-Republican, with a grouch on because the Standard is not a subservient follower of the organ's peculiar political po-litical declarations, hastens to inform its readers, in an editorial of great length, that the Ectterment League in Ogden, without the knowledge of the mayor and greatly to that official's surprise, raided raid-ed the gambling houses and captured the gamblers; that the mayor, to save himself from criticism, then hastened to swear out warrants of arrest for the gamblers. If the Herald-Republican is seeking to pci-petuate a reputation for falsehood and misrepresentation, it has made a long stride in that direction by its dishonest treatment of the Ogden raid. The members of the Eetterment League, when they met Thursday Thurs-day night, did not gather for the purpose of making a raid, but wrere invited by the city officials to join in the crusade. The Herald-Republican says there has been gambling in Ogden for years. That may be true and yet prove nothing. It has been a mooted question whether the gambling in Ogden has been as demoralizing de-moralizing as that practiced in Salt Lake. In Salt Lake. there ha3 been an outward show of piety and righteousness, while within, in f dark places, there has been all kinds of corruption, and not the least of the evils and ices has been gambling behind closed doors. Not long ago the Herald-Republican made an odious comparison of the morals of Ogden and Salt Lak pointing out how Salt Lake was free from the dreadful curse of gambling. The next clay a man was lulled in one of the secret dens of the gamesters in Salt Lake and the gambling tables robbed of several thousand dollars. That unlooked for disclosure branded the Herald-Republican as an in-I in-I famous fraud, veiling and protecting the secret gambling dens with : a profession of purity. j The Herald-Republican is pursuing a policy of duplicity and there is nothing cajidid or frank in all its make-up, and that paper, therefore, cannot understand why any person in Ogden can openly ackowledge conditions to be as they are, when by a little of its deception de-ception and trickery, a sanctimonious front might be presented and all human frailities ignored. |