The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-09
YERIFICATION.

conversion Of its esteemed mOrn1n
contemporary to the cause Of Law
and order was sincere and com
plete. Two or three years ago /
advocated billiard halls and house
of prostitution as reformation,
agents in Utah, and savagely at
tackled the police who were trying
to suppress those evils. Last weel
our contemporary experienced al
agreeable change Of heart, anG
while vigorously denouncing gam
blers, called upon the police to
break up the dens of infarny which
were leading astray so many
Of the young men; in other
words, were " reforming" the
youth in the manner that the
Tribune had formerly advocated
THE HERALD kindly noted the con,
version, and with open arms well
coined its down town contemporary
to the. ranks of the law and order
loving. We hoped with its assist
ance to be able to drive out some Of
the thieves and rogues and close up
the hellish dives that have been
multiplied under its announcement
and fostering care. The readers of
Tuesdays Tribune, in view Of last
weeks articles, were surprised and
puzzled. They were unable to un-
derstand whether the organ wanted
to repudiate its late utterances in
regard to the gambling shops,
whether it intended to return to its
wall0w, or whether it was really in
earnest in expressing wish for the
discontinuance of lis 'reformatory"
agencies. One thing, however, was
made clear, namely, the denial by
that paper Of the correctness of
THE HERALD'S quotations from its
former article in advocacy of leWd
women, billiard halls and kindred
institutions as good things for Utah.
It would have been wise for the
Tribune to haYe said nothing more
on the subject; or at least to have
been consistent with its latest utter
ances, by keeping in line OF them.
For it to say that the extract sis not
true, neither in word nor spirit"
was very unwise, not to say down
right foolish, for the reason that the
truth Of the matter is SO easy of
demonstration. It would have been
generous, and shown truly con-
trite and repentant heart, for the
Tribune to have republished some
of its articles in advocacy of the
evils it now decries merely that it
might have thus gained an oppor-
tunity to repudiate them. 1t did
rot, however, think proper to pursue
that course; on the contrary, it
charges THE HERALD with mis-
quoting it. This course very
naturally compels THE HERALD to
protect its honor and yeracity, |
which it does by republishing below
one of the Tritune'S articles from |
which we made extracts the other
morning. The article appeared as
the leading editorial in the Tribune
of Sunday, March 6, 1881. We ale
thus explicit in order that our cons
temporary can easily verify the
matter, and thus avoid again plac-
ing itself in the ugly and awkward
predicament Of denying the correct I
ness Of an absolute truth. The ar
ticle appeared under the head:
WHAT UTAH WANTS.
Apropos to the new and petty wsr
started by the municipal gov
erpment on the women OF the town, the
Iicuor dealers and the gambling frater-
nitv, one Of the enemy said to us the
other day: ut may be hard thing 10
.sy, and perhaps harder still to mail
ain, but I believe that billiard halls, sa>
oops and houses of ill-fame are more
powerful reforming agencies here 10 Utah
han churches and schools, or even than
he TT. 6une. What the young Moimons
want is TO be freed. So long IS they are
lsves it matters not much TO what or to
whom they are and they can be nothing.
Your churches are as ensiaving as
he Mormon church. Your party Is as
,ieoted and intolerant az the Mormon
'arty. At ell events, I rejoice when L
ee the young Mormon hoodlums pisylng
getting drunk, running with
Dad women-anything to break the
hackles they were born in and that every
o.called religious or virtuous influence
,nlY makes the stronger. Some OF them
will 60 quite to the bad, of course, but 1t :
s better go, for they are made of poor !
tuff, and since there is no good reaGon
Why they we're begun for let them soon