The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25
CONVERTED IN HASTE.

CUNfEhIED IN HASTE.
1t takes some men long time to swing
around to fact and acknowledge that it
confronts them. Some will have a most
patent demonstration staring them in the
face day after day and year after year for a
lifetime, and if they admit its presence on
their deathbeds they say nothing about it
but let their conversion perish with them.
The pleasant feature regarding this state
of things is that such people are rarely
missed, and the complaint regarding them
is that they almost invariably stay long
after they are capable of serving any good
or proper purpose. When, however, a
change of heart, even though it be for
temporary purpose and for one occasion
only, takes place, it is good thing to re-
ceive and give it sufficient notice for the
sake of the good the example may do by
having an effect upon others.
When the Liberal party carried Ogden
last February, they were exuberant and
demonstrative, at which no one COM
planned. Those who had disposition to
make complaints because of manifest I'M
fair treatment, overcame their feelings and
took consolation in the knowledge that time
is great avenger, making those who
thrive by fraudulent methods answer fully
for their wrong doing some time. Those
who We're most carried away by bombastic
citation at the time were loud in their pro
testations of public spiritedness and patri-
otto impulse, claiming that they would
exalt and purify the municipality over
which some of the residents, aided by many
who were not, had chosen them to preside
for two years. Without seeing wherein it
was probable or possible that changes
for the better could take place,
all were willing for the i'm
proved condition to come The first thing
that showed up'' as result of the new
regime was semi brothel disguised as a
variety show; then came another, then the
real and full-fedged article in great profu-
sion. Gambling houses, scarcely known
before, suddenly sprang into existence and
were conducted day and night with open
doors. A reckless disregard for the senti-
mental and substantial rights of majority
of the people was Immediately inaugurated,
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and in the midst of it all the clacquers and
touters for the new order of things per-
sisted IN pointing to the new deal as all that
ought to be desired. In vain did the people
whose families were outraged by the imme-
date presence of houses of i'll fame which
werelicensed so far as lack of opposition by
constituted authority could do it, appeal for
relief unavailing were their protests against
the uselessness, inconvenience and ruth
lessness of remaining the streets; and to
no purpose did they inveigh against the
standing invitations to their young men to
enter the gambling dens which doors
unfastened and even aiar conveyed. Still, |
it was 'good city government" for was |
not property increasing in value las it does |
in every growing town, and were not
strangers principally of the most unde-
sirable character) fiocking in on every |
train?
Well, the evil grew apace. The Christian |
and refined sentiment of the community |
was shocked every day and every hour in
in the day. 1t was evident that those in |
control did not intend to either curtail or
discountenance it, and as a last resort the
power of the higher authority was
invoked and extended. All at once |
there was a rift in the clouds,
and the people began to behold the sun
light of decency and lawfulness once more |
through it. Then it suddenly |
occurs to the supporters of mining camp |
rule to right-about-face and stand in with |
the turn of the tide. They and their organ |
all at once discovered that the Liberal gov
eminent of Ogden is not what it should
ben and that reformatory measures are
needed The better class of people dis |
covered in six days what it took these |
pillars of purity as it is exemplified in |
many other cases besides the one cited, six
months to find out And the awakening
did not come upon them gradually like a
growing opinion, it was abruptly and all-at-
United States marshal took hand in the
game and concluded to put summary stop
10 the iniquityl
AS we said before, it is better to repent I
late than not at all, even though the re-
Dentance be for home consumption only. |
No matter about the suddenness Of the
thing. Let past records be buried, and
though they died recently, let those
who make them begin anew. An Irish
man whose wife had recently died was up
braided by his employer for his determine
ton to marry again so soon. ''She has
only been dead a week. the employer said.
swell, sir, that's fact" said Pat; ''but
she's as dead now as she ever will be-" So
let it be with those who upheld the Liberal
infamy at Ogden; if their record is
thoroughly dead, they can at once proceed |
to marry another; only, stick to it this
time.
A REPUBLICAN paper wants to know