The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-21
LIBERAL LOGIC.

II the story which comes to us from
Ogden is true, a good many of the sup
posedly intelligent and clean men up there
are peculiar, to say the least. The Liberal
elevation to municipal control was, as is
well known, Immediately followed by a
stampede of the immoral classes to the
Junction city. Gamblers and prostitutes
seemed to take it that the victory over the
Peoples party was their victory, and that
thereafter no restraint would be placed on
them. Acting on this assumption the
focked into Ogden, as remarked, by the
score, and for time it appeared as if our
neighbors were trying to 'down" they
mining camps in the matter of
contemptuous disregard for morality and
decency- Respectable people talked
about the nasty and ugly condition of
things, the newspapers mot the Liberal
ones) took the matter up and correspon-
dents wrote abroad regarding it. AS the
municipal authorities paid no attention to
the situation, and put forth no effort to
suppress the evils, though some of the
officials were known to be moral, upright,
men, charitably disposed people were in
clined to regard the government as incom-
petent rather than willful and we are not
certain that this is not the proper view to
take of the case.
The scandal became so notorious, the
outrage on decency so offensive, that
the other day the United States
marshal felt it to be his duty to
interfere and endeavor to enforce the
law against gaming and prostitution. He
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they must desist or he would prosecute.
and it is evident that his warning had a
good effect for the gamblers fled in large
numbers and the lewd women, it is said
are less brazen and impudent than when
they acted as if their calling were as legit-
innate and respectable as any other.
But what we set out to say is that it
comes to US, fairly well accredited, that
many of the leading Liberals, some of them
members of the municipal government,
are emphatic in their denunciation of
the marshal. They do not accuse
the marshal with an unwarranted
assumption of authority, nor do they claim
that the law has been openly and flagrantly
violated, but say that the closing of these
dens of evil and infamy will destroy the
Liberal party in Ogden, and that it will
check the growth and progress of the city
1t is alleged that prominent church men,
bers have been loud in their protests, and
have said that it is better ahat gambling
and prostitution should be winked at than
that there should be return to the con-
sentative and less active ways of former
times when there was no boom We
don't know that arr Of these criticisms and |
protests have reached the ears CT the mar
shall and his Ogden representatives, but if
so what must the officials think! What
must be the opinion of the gentlemen re-
garding party which depends for popular
ity and support on the aid and comfort it
gives to the corrupt and immoral classes,
and which maintains its supremacy by the |
assistance of prostitutes and gamblers9 The |
marshal and all his deputies are pronounced
Liberals, but if there is one among them
who agrees with the Liberal leaders Of Og-
den that lewd women and houses of ill-fame
should be encouraged and supported as es-
sentia's to the plrty's success, he should be
given permanent vacation.