Show IN SALT LAKI 1 I arx salt lake cit is undergoing a of evolution at the present time there has been a movement on hand to remove remote ane acknowledged dens of ini iniquity quit from the center of the business section and it appears that no one can be found to father the scheme politicians are blamire each political party for being the originator the red light district which now occupies and makes dangerous the region around commercial street is to be removed to the west side of the city and there is now in course of erection a lot of houses for the denizens of the under world top to ply y their nefarious trade but what of the family residences in that part of the city the proposition seems to have resolved ved itself into a question of the commercial interests of the city against the moral or family interests the city council is ailed by some members of the community to save the residence district on the west sid side c from the lecherous surroundings of the proposed dens of vice the board of education has interposed a plea against the establishment of this district the newspapers have raised a half cry against it and the whole community is much exercised overt ov erthe be proposed removal and there seem deemi to be no remedy the city council his has refused to act and all other bodies are powerless meanwhile the building of the houses for the removal 0 oe the fallen women to a respectable residence district goes on and the of the homes established in that vicinity are not even considered it is a terrible arraignment of the present cita eit government ern ment last sunday the rev albert buxton pastor of the central christian church delivered a sermon which m was as a scorcher on conditions as they exist in zion some time since a salt lake preacher who is east cast trying to raise funds for his church asserted asber ted that silt lake city was was a veritable sodom and gomorrah in point of wickedness this report of the lever mol gent gentl lemans emani sermon semen delier delacr ed in cincinati has been denied i in n part there has been much comment by the silt S at lake city papers but it remained d for the rev mr buxton button list sunday to clinch the assertion of mr short he said thit th it salt lake city is not a sodom in wickedness but lie he pointed out some of the things which that city contained conta ned vied and which needed purifying he brought out an indictment against the cita and in it were six si counts here are the counts as given in mond 1 a tribune 1 salt lake stands indic injected for its saloon influence three fourths of the Amer american lLan states have taken a firmer stand against saloon debauchery than our city no economist today ol dniel that the intemperance of the land is responsible for the majority ot crime pauperism and idiocy yit in our floied city we grow frantic over the question of material for pavement or sewer extension and divide parties over these mercenary issues while no party dares to nuke make a can science or Nv pcr a conse conscience lence that it kiy have on this vie the main issue of ever even state and city it is a side issue 1 that women weep widowed tears ind and children cry beneath a brutal fathers frenzied list fist their dominant issue is that the sheets be smooth for their gasoline gigs to roll their indolent occupants on a gentle slope to hell it the police chief trl tri to enforce the slender laws already made against intoxicating debauchery no political party parts will give him solid support and aery politician admitted to the he bar N will ill contest for the high honor of defending this illegal orgie 2 salt lake stands indicted for all allowing owing the gambler to ply his trade in ruin and suicide provided it shall not be so conspicuous as to offend artistic taste no boy may escape the vigilant officer for riding a wheel on the sidewalk salt lake watches these merry lads ads and pounces on them with unerring aim yet tonight the city will be full of social hands with possibly a suicide report tomorrow morning and the police cannot find them I 1 saw ten men watching several silver dollars collars ring in harmony with the click of dice in the lobby of a principal hotel A policeman strolled through the circle but saw only the calender on the wall he was not to blame he would have lost his job hb bid lie he seen what nhat the others were watching 3 salt lake stands indicted for allowing prostitution to flaunt its scarlet robe on row in the exact center of trade nay for being bartner in the profits by about 1000 a month it pays one armore ur anore policeman to watch that the murders there be not so noisy as to disturb theatre gori gor near by but if the officer should enforce the state statute he would find a suburban beat or a farm job 4 salt lake stands indicted for feeding its wayward young into the hungry maw of tl tle the e political monster when a little band of anxious parents c I 1 beaded by a judge of the juvenile court god bless judge gowana aided by asane a sane state juvenile court commission plead for the kind safeguarding of it wayward ayward ini im 0 cence they see the opportunity for political appointment and graft for favorite ward heelers and while the city politicians quarrel with the county politicians about favorites fa nd ind appointing power and salaries the boys glide down to the penitentiary tent iary and the girls to the brothel 5 salt lake stands indicted for political we have a few politicians here that stand for piety god bless them I 1 wish it were courteous to mention names but the great gang of politicians ians the rera and leaders would not know where to find a sing single e chure church h in town ton if they did not need votes once a year on the a d of religion and morality how many of the con tilling circles of politicians politician how bow many of the first twenty could ou find in hurch church toda 1 As many as aou ou could count on the thumbs of a one armed man yet in sixty days their cry will be ministers vote for us and morality G salt lake stands inflicted for partisan prostitution the wayfarer is liable to be jostled into the mud b by half inebriated politician or his boy inveigled into a commercial street den by the politicians 11 lieutenant e u ten while they talk a hum humbugger bugge i of morality civit civic alre hi rc in salt lake consists in Nar barning warning ning of a mountain meadow massacre of over half a c century ago while souls are swept down today in masses before the perils of our own ige civic virtue heie che cheers rs us to fight a martinette of straw stran while the protected pickpocket draws our purse or the procurer gets our daughter for j jears ears after our civil war hid ceased wily politicians won aon my fathers vote to their issues of grafl grafi while they warned him of a south louth that had a generation ago laid down their arms I 1 will stand in salt lake for an any y true party of progress I 1 want t to 0 be with that party that builds tall buildings lays deep sewers and paves wide streets but they must come to me with clean hinds binds they must riot not under the name of holiness bohnes assail nith public profanity and obscenity my friends who e political conge tence differs nor seek my cifes leg acil il vote to uphold the law they mut must mu t not weary my ears with a passing polygamy while the hiccough cough in their voices mikes the tones maudlin I 1 doubt not that ancient polygamy still exists among us but I 1 hae re not been a single caso case the red light of commercial street and the electric ele elc glare of the stately saloon is too bright in my ees cues I 1 say I 1 have not a single doubt thit polygamy still exists and will exist in decreasing ratio for a decade or two and if the politicians will ioco the brothels and put away their contentions and sell out their S sj loons I 1 will then have time and heart to join with them in hastening the departure of this ancient wrong that certainly is a strong arraignment against the present city government and the amerman american party which will to re a lot of vrin ink to explain away dr buxton button is nry to tell tl 0 city officers what he did last sunday ile he can not see sec the good of this cry against past in mistakes and pres present crit exaggeration of alleged mormon church wickedness while there is ih such a great field for reform right in the city itself dr buxton is to be congratulated oi 01 his exposure of prevailing conditions in salt lake city city and his denunciation of rotten political icil methods in be clouding the real state of affairs |