Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-27
FULFILLBiENT.

Last night the DEMOCRAT spoke OF the
bad sanitary condition OF the town, and
said that any time there was liable to be
an outbreak of epidemic diseases on ac-
count of the many cesspools in town and
the seepage from them. Reference was
also made to the scourge which has been
raging in the town of Plymouth, Penn,
for month past, and cited
the testimony of DR.. Edison, OF New
York, to show that the epidemic
there was chiefly due to washing OF
refuse into the reservoirs. The DEMO
Graf was, and still is, inclined to at
tribute the epidemic at Plymouth to filth
and the want of drainage and such like
things; but in last nights News there
was a far better explanation OF these
things. 1t said: "Strange and terrible
diseases are among the predicted Judg-
ments of the last days, and notwlth-
standing the boasted progress OF the
curative art we hear so frequently OF
epidemics that battle the skill OF
physicians so as to almost force the con-
victions that the fulfillment of the pre-
dictions is at hand" Further on the
Mems refers to the Plymouth plague and
the new epidemic which has just broken
ont in Paris in the same State. This be-
ing the case, it is folly to hope that the
City Council will do anything to save the
town from disease, as such action would
he thwarting the will OF God, and would
retard the" e"fulfillment of the predictions
Beecher had clearer view OF the cause OF
these epidemics, and he said he could not
see anv connection between rotting veget-
ables in the cellar and cesspools at the
back door and the deaths which resulted
therefrom and the will OF God in wishing
TO 'take home" those who succumbed to
disease and the poison which filled their
houses. But now the duty of the City
Council in regard to cleaning the
streets and introducing sanitary measures
is made plain, and all they will
have to do will be to sit back in their
easy chairs, draw their salaries and help
along the "fulfillment of the predictions"
What a beautiful thing the 'fulfllment
of the predictions" is 1t is a sort of
labor-saving machine for city officials,
and fills their pockets as well as the pre-
dictions.
Some years ago party of seven were
on lake near Manti, Sanpete, and
squall coming up, the boat was capsized
and all drowned. The report which
reached the News stated that it
occurred on Sunday, and so it was
a great chance to show that this
also was in "fulfllment of the pre-
dictions," and in very long leader,
the NeaCs showed how it was against the
will and wishes of the Lord to 90 boating
on Sundays, and because these young
people had disobeyed that will and wish,
the Lord had seen fit to punish them and
make an example of them, and for this
reason he caused the boat to capsze and
the young people to be drowned To
show that this was the case, the NeWs
cited the Bible, the Book of Mormon and
the Doctrine and Covenants, and when
the NeWS had done all this to make
its case good with the authority
of the Lord, it turned out that
the young people had been drowned on a
Friday instead of Sunday. We merely
cite this as an evidence that "Strange
and terrible diseases are among the pre-
dicted judgments OF the last days" and
''to almost force the conviction that the
fulfllment of the predictions is at hand, {"
and that the City Couhcil are doing their
duty in regard TO making the town a good
place to bring about the strange and ter
rible diseases which are among the pre-
dicted judgments of the last days.