The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-13

grants are all bad, or that a majority
O. them even are evil-disposed, for
fair percentage of the really good and
solid, law-abiding citizens of the United
States is made up of people from
abroad. They came here, not because
they were dishonest, or criminal at
! heart. but because our government is
broader and more liberal than their
own. and for the reason that here a
man is more to the state and much
more to himself than he can possibly be
in any other quarter Of the globe. But
it cannot be denied that among the
thousands who come across the water
every year are. many FROM the lowest
walks Of life in the old world. They
we're worthless reprobates at home. half
starved and ill-ciad, and kept
down By oppressive laws strict
ly applied; they come here, and
mistaking liberty for license, some
drift into crime, which from their train
ing is congenial if not natural to them.
They are poor and without the means of
even temporary support, and as aeon
sequence they fall upon the community
for support, and the method of support
which they prefer and practice is that
obtainable by crime 1t is said that one
of the first things that the poverty
stricken immigrant does after making
two or three Intellectual attempts to find
well-p&id employment, is to commit
theft; lac is arrested, and sent to prison,
and when he comes out the love of
crime as thoroughly Implanted in him;
he imagines that he has been iIl-treated
because he was not received with open
arms and given a luxurious home.
and to obtain revenge for the abuse
to- which he has been subjected
for having helped himself to something
to eat or wear, he enters upon a career
of crime. The arrests in New York are
largely of persons who have been in
this country from day to two years.
There is another tendency to crime,
which is found in the growing infdelity
encountered, Doubt and
skepticism are to be found all over the
land, and especially is the west the very
hotbed OF infdeIity. Outside of Utah,
religion has little influence anywhere
west Of she Missouri river, atheism and |
liberalism everywhere predomina4ing |
Bob Ingersoll can draw large aud paying |
audienceS, whore the eloquent. earnest |
preacher would address empty benches /
with free seats and mo collection 10 de- /
ray expenses" The infidel and the i
atheist would not like to admit that |
hey are-criminal, but they cannGt sue
deny that the tendency Of aheir
SINS is toaoosen one of the most petent
;hecks against crime
Another potent factor in LEADING to
,ri1ne is found in the class of tifera- /
Hre which is placed in the hands I
If the young and thoughtless,.
/ literature whose whole fabric is one |
II sensatioIfalism and indecency. Thou
lands of beysa and girls. vanns mon aud
women, have been led astray by this
ticious and communicating influence of
The faint is spreading to
he better class of modern literature.
me novel of the day being regardedas
Ireary and stupid unless it is loose,
snervating aud demoralizing-
1t cannot be told how to prevent
rhine, but if this vicious literature. can
'e suppressed, if a check can be inn
posed upon the spread of skepticism, if
adequate meanscan be provided for the
moral and industrial welfare of the
and evil7dispOsed immigrants.
will 'be put upon the Grim
nal tendencies OF society. and the Grim
nal statistics would soon show an I'M
'roveiAent in the condition of the peo-
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