The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-04


at emulating Denver as the prototype Of |
the future city OF Salt Lake, have turned
the tiger loose and propose to convert this
city into a sort OF Leadvilie where polyg-
amy viii be supplanted by prostitution
and where every man shall contribute one
tenth of his substance over the saloon {
counters on the first day of the week to
support the ''plungers'' in politics.
The new system of tithes is as much an
improvement over the old one as he'll is
better place than heaven.
''Nowhere, nor enywhere else,' as Arte-
mus Ward put it, has it been found neces-
sary o call public meeting to encourage
gambling and the ''saleratus' industry, ex
cept 1t Salt Lake.
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''Nowhere, nor eny where else" has it
been found necessary to hold mass meet t
ing 10 favor the Dissertation OF the Sabbath |
day.
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Nowhere nor eny where else'' was a
mayor placed at the head of party ticket |
10 catch votes 10y his virtues that lie might |
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OF his administration.
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IA good man, according to the popular
idea, is man who does not get INTO any |
mans way. Almost any man is unpopular |
VINO goes around with his pockets filled
with moral dynamite"
AT the immoral reform meeting a certain
gentleman was applauded for saying: I'VE
don't want any Connecticut blue laws
here'
lived in New England long enough to
have educated ont OF me ali the distorted
notions previously held against that God
fearing people; and the men who are con
tinually deriding their claims to superior
moral ibre are daft TO their virtues.
It is so common for orators and news
papers TO use such phrases as ''The stingy
Yankees" ''The tin-peddling Yankees"
ana thai o ther terse collocamon, .'Those
ID bless ed Yankees" that ii is looked
upon as the proper and only way of ex-
pressing ''our'' sentiments
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The real cause of this animosity was
forcibly stated by DR.. Wayland, Of Phila-
delphia, in these words: cit makes people
angry when they see New England pros
pering. influential, the banker Of the coun-
try, leading public sentiment, shaping
legislation. Men would not mind so much
ii this success We're attained by happy
accident, or were the result Of favoring
fortune; but it is aggravatiug to see the
New Englanders, TO whom Providence has
given nothing but rocks and ice and
Weather-a great deal of it-yet mining
! oil. II
Allutlan islands, building railroads in
Dakota, and covering half the continent
with insurance, and underlying it with
mortgage. Success is the one unpardon-
able crime.''
What did Providence give to the Nor
mons in Utah? A desert; but with rock
ribbed honesty and an austere observance
OF the Sabbath day they have converted it
into garden, blossoming as the rose and
radiant with verdure.
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''When | came to Utah from Nevada, in
the '70s, and looked down upon these wide
streets and well-shaded thoroughfares and
saw the white adobe houses glistening in
the summer sun, without q saloon in the
city, it presented to my mind perfect
paradise
''There are no poor people in Utah, y
wrote Artemus Ward away back in the
'60s.
81 find it difficult to place loans with the
farmers, as they have an aversion against
going into debt" says Mr.. Leonard, who is
engaged in the loaning business.
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l attended two meetings last week One
was at the Methodist church. where one
thousand of the best men and women in
this city, God-fearing and law-abiding.
petitioned the city council TO refuse to open
up the theaters on Sunday. The other
meeting was made up Of many representa-
tive citizens, but it was largely composed
OF saloon keepers and gamblers.
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The two prayers went before the city
council on their merits, and that nigh body
of legislators laid the prayer of one thou
sand law-abiding Christians on the table
and granted the petition Of the infidel, the
gambler and the saloon keeper with 8
coterie Of respectable followers.
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The saloon power is already on top, and
the city fathers will have a monkey il
their halr from now on.
1 would rather be Mayor Scott with his
character and convictions for minute
than az the combined horde of Sabbath
breakers for an aeon OF ages.
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I would rather have the poorest inch in
his vertebra than the combined marrowles
spinal columns of all the Sabbath desecra
tiers in the world.
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If al the vandals who are railing agains
the Puritan Sabbath would pack them
selves to Africa and twist their prehensil,
tails around a rotten limb and continue L
enjoy themselves by twisting them forever
more, this country would be the better 70
il, though Africa would suffer b. the intro
duction OF a lower order of animals.
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1t has been the nearly universal expert
ence Of American cities that gambling an,
prostitution cannot DE prohibited, but reg
ulated. Sunday amusenents can be pro
hibised
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1t has also been the universal experienc
Of all cities that rigid enforcement of tn
Sunday law did more for morality than a
other restrictions put together.
There is no such thing as sacred concert
given in any city in the United States
outside Of the churches.
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There are secular concerts and +Sur
day'' concerts, but there is nothing sacre
about them-except the day upon whic
4box afn given.