The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-30
THE REFORM MOVEMENT.

The HERALD is glad to note that the
churches have at last entered their protest
against the continuance of the reign of
vice and crime which the Liberal party i'm
posed upon this city A year ago all these
churches were doing their utmost to ad-
vance the cause of the Liberal organiza-
| ton; some of the pastors marched in the
Liberal professions and we believe that all
of them voted Tor the men who have per
mitted Salt Lake to be transformed from
one OF the purest cities and best-governed
municipalities, into a veritable nest of vice,
immortality and crime, burglars and
garroters stalking the streets almost with
out fear of molestation, ro5biug and even
numbering belated pedestrians within
sight and hearing of the police station;
harlots Haunting their Infamous trade be-
fore the public and defyihg the public
sentiment which has heretofore driven
them into retirement; whisky saloons
running openly on Sunday, the array of
DRINKS in the police court on Monday being
larger than on other days of the week.
Lille and property are unsafe and the vices
and immoralities which have been out
past are winked at if not protected and en-
couraged by the officials who were voted
into place by the very churchmen who are
now pleading for reformation and the en-
forcement of the law. We recall that the
| foremost man Of one Of these churches was
so elated by the Liberal victory which his
harangues and vote helped to win that he
was prominent and officious in a SATURDAY.
night iollification, and either the wine.
which flowed freely, or the enthusiasm of
the occasion caused him to grow so ooliyi-
Gus of the Christian proprieties that he
participated in the revels until the Sab
bath had been sadly bent if not broken.
All the same, The HERALD reioices in
this reform movement and we trust that
the popular feeling will be so aroused that
the city hall crowd will be compelled to en-
force the laws and do something towards
protecting the lives and property of the
citizens and driving crime and vice from
the city limits. We welcome everybody TO
our side in this fight against the party, the
government and the evils which
have done so much within the past
few months to destroy the splendid
reputation of this loved city. We also
hope that the reform movement now in
augurated will not be switched off and
made to fail by the declarations and pro
tests of leading Liberal politicians that
they like men mot too good, but just good
enough" We hope there will be no sug-
gestlon OF a let up until the Sunday saloon
shall be thing of the past and the Chris
tan Sabbath can again assert itself in this
city; until vile women shall be forced to
respect the sentiments of decent people
and to carry on their awful traffic as a
CRIMINAL business; until men can again
walk the streets after nightfall without
lear OF the slungshot and sandbag, and
people can retire at night in the reason able
belief that they will arise in the morning and
fnd their dwellings undisturbed by bur-
glars and sneak thieves. We have very
little confidence in the desire of the CITY
hall gang to inaugurate a change or SUD-
press any of the evils which have grown
up under their license or protection, or by
reason OF their incompetency and moral
coWardlce; but we believe that if the com
munlty, without regard to party politics or
religious professions will declare itself. the
ofhclals VINO are responsible for this I'M
happy condition of misrule and disorder
will be driven to action or forced from the
positions which they hold bya fraudulent
and corrupt election. 1t has taken eleven
months to bring this terrible affliction upon
the city; it need not take three months to
brlng semi publication and restore the mu
niclpality 10 some sort of decency and order.