Show c Salt Lake Can Be Cleansed If It the tile People Will Stand Firm ISHOP SPALDING head of the Prot Protestant stant B BISHOP Episcopal diocese and Dean Colladay Collada of St. St I Marks Mark's cathedral have h joined in tie the general denunciation denunciation elation of conditions in Salt Lake under the tho administration administration administration admin admin- of John S. S Bransford Bishop Spalding Spalding- takes the position that it is not easy to I live e in Salt Lake in 1911 and be an optimist We y c rather I take issue with ith this well-known well divine divino for W wo we believe be- be be believe lieve the good people of Salt Lake are aroused at last and nd that they will sweep protected vice vico vice and those responsible for it from their seats scats of power Under a 3 condition such as confronts the people of the city at the present time it is easy to be optimistic optimistic mistie because the public determination to remedy y itis it itis t I is palpable The fact fad that Bransford was nominated nominated nomInated nomI- nomI nomi nomi- by a margin of only one vote ote in a convention composed of his own cs augurs well for a cleansing of Salt Lake Lesko Dean Colladay reflected public sentiment and the belief of the honest citizenship of Salt Bait Lake when he said The events c of or tho the past week t have opened a at great t door of opportunity in tills community I 1 Dr r. r Padens Paden's sermon and mad the thc abandonment of or the tho stockade have havo forced the tho matter of or the social evil In this city upon your JOur attention We e ba have vc many of or 11 us been surprised and shocked to find how stron strongly ly It I is entrenched here and lion how widespread is its evil influence A community that desires to be bo morally healthy can pursue only one course in dealing with mth tl this social evil IJ It Jt t must be fought as ruthlessly sly as we fight smallpox small small- smallpox pox and scarlet fever to We have hare law enough to d do this law whIch I reaches all those who are arc responsible nod and there Is a rising tide of or public sentiment which insists I that th the law be bo enforced belief that It there there isa is isa I In Li view of Dr Colladay's a 8 rising tide of public sentiment which ins insists that the Jaw law be enforced enforced we see sec no difficulty in in being an optimist in Salt Lake in There unquestionably unquestionably bly is a rising tide of public sentiment which demands he enforcement of law Jaw and that rising rising rising ris ris- ing tide is well reflected in the convention of city through which Bran Bransford was as barel barely able to squeeze The ministers of S Salt lt Lake have a solemn solemn sol sol- ol- ol duty upon them in view of conditions hero here and that duty is to do what they can to correct conditions condition This is not a matter of politics or creed it is a question of protecting the young oung manhood I and womanhood of Salt Lake from the influences I and degradation that surrounds protected vice vier which strangles les a cit city government o with one bestial armand armand arm armand and reaches out with the other for victims The issue in the city campaign campain that is already I begun is whether t this is city shall be clean or unclean whether vice shall be protected as it has hns been for forthe forthe forthe the past four years or whether it shall han be driven out As Dr Paden says ys it is impossible to compromise compromiso with evil j evil must be driven out because evil cannot canI cannot can can- not be regulated Those who attempt to do so o I smirch themselves and effect nothing for the oom- oom John S. S Bransford has bas shown that he cannot orwill or orwill orwill will not drive vice ice from the city whether he connived connived connived con con- I at the protection of vice ice or whether h he lacks sufficient sufficient- intelligence to know when he is being d deceived de calved by the grafters who may be using him is immaterial It is certain that vice is being protected protected protected pro pro- in this thiB city at the present time The resort operated by the rna mayors mayor's ors or's social expert would bo be running full fuH blast if his social expert had not closed dosed it temporarily to save Bransford's political bead head which is is still far from being saved This is is not a question of erecting skyscrapers in Salt Lake or of the improvement of the city This city has progressed d is progressing and will progress its progress in the past five fhe years for which the American party takes the tho claim claim- or rather for which the city claim the credit inasmuch as it was not a convention of the American party was party was not because of MaorI Mayor Maor I Bransford but rather in spite of him j Salt Lake is bound to proceed along the lines of I 3 destiny marked out for it It will progress much more rapidly as as a 3 clean city than as one that is un un- clean Vice does not build skyscrapers nor does it I pave streets or lay sidewalks Whatever er revenue revenue vice vice has paid has gone to the grafters none of it has found its way into the city treasury trens r Not one penny pen- pen ny frY 9 of city eity expenses has been paid from the income of vice vice although thousands of dollars of money wrung from the taxpayers have been expended because because because be be- cause of vice vice Vice has paid dearly for its privileges in in Salt Lake but none of the money has gone hone into the treasury it has gone into the pockets of the grafters and one of the duties of the campaign will be to expose these grafters The sort of a condition under which Salt Lake has bas been struggling does the thc city and its people infinitely in infinitely in- in finitely more harm than the exposure of that con condi condi- i- i tion Does anyone suppose that the stockade would have been closed down even temporarily if it hadnot had hadnot not been because of the exposure of conditions made by The Republican Herald 7 It was only necessary for this paper to hammer awa away da day after day to to- bring brim the de decent nt people of the city to a a. realization of what was really going on When Then they finally understood understood understood under under- stood public sentiment was such that Mayor l Bransford's Bransford's Bransford's Brans- Brans fords ford's social expert had to close it ostensibly in order to save Bransford If he is re-elected re mayor maor it will reopen If Bishop Spalding and other good citizens of Salt Lake will g get t out ont on the thc firing lino Uno against pro pro- vice it will cc be be easy to be an optimist in Salt Lake in 1911 If they y sit supinely b by and let the grafters grafter capture the city again then there will be little use iise in optimism or pessimism either eJI A Chicago pastor has inaugurated a campaign to induce the women of his his- congregation not to wear wea r big hats to church In view o of the fact that the women form three-fourths three of his congregation a at t each ach service a fact he admits he has a p problem rohl em that will bother him som some If H one cannot wear the e latest l hat to church style what is the u use of going to t to church will be found to be the sentiment o of f s some some me of the time fair parishioners A correspondent asks whether we consider th tb the e German overrated We Ve do army not know our ou r acquaintance with the German army il is very limited but judging by the Germans we have laa met we should judge that the German is army a regular army capable ca capable pable of of making a muss if ir iran an any one stepped on its ih i t s t toes While feel cs we wc slightly peevish over O the q jues lues ues ti Hon tion- on yet we are glad the time correspondent asked u rather than Emperor William Will ViI has a n mig might t uncertain temper q i |