The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-09

as well to the United States and England.
Human nature is pretty much the same
| the world over, and the difference between
Montreal and New York, or any of our
large cities, is not very great; while it
would be untruthful if not unpatriotic to
say that Canada outstrips the United
States in anything, even in social impurity.
The following is one of the strongest pas
sages in the Indictment, and its severity
sets the ears to tingling:
II impeach the moral sense of our city
for its criminal Indifference to the charac-
ter OF its public men. Look at the men that
have been elected to our council and CIVIC
chair. This city has elected men from
whose homes virtue has fed, men who have
sought to introduce the Ottoman seraglio
into our country, men whose lives were
perpetual defiance of the seventh cannon OF
the decalogue. These men, whose i'm
morality was fared in the very face OF
heaven, have come forward again and
again, and have been elected aad reelected
until it would seem as if vice itself IN this
city of Montreal were one OF the crecen-
tials for high Office.
"And look at the men that our city coun-
Gil has appointed to official positions com
panions of the fast, the dU bious, the f1ashy;
poker players set to catch gamblers; meni in
whose office is the underground telegraph
to signalize the bagnio when raids are to be
made.
81 impeach some of the constituencies of
the dominion of an abnegatlon OF moral dis
elimination in the representatives. they
have sent to parliament. There are men at
the very mention of whose names virtue
bushes and modesty hides her head-men
whose characters have been kicked around
the hotels and the corridors of our houses of
parliament and then over the land. | tell
those men who have won some little political
success as members or minister's, but who
bear on their foreheads the apocalypticmark
of the beast-I tell those highly honorable
members whom it may concern, yes, and
all rough-handed l bit them square be-
tween the eyes when I tell them that their
example and record is pestilential The
time is at hand when the Sir Charles
Dilkes and the Hughes Hallets of Canadian
politics must retire before the scorn and
aroused conscience of the electors of this
land. We strike the tocsin and sound the
knell of their political damnation.
81 impeach the class of so-called society
men as at war with the sanctity of the
family-the wasted scions of wealth, the
degraded sons of niggard fathers, your
men that arise at IL, pay morning calls at
3 and dine 1t and wine it and cigar it and
gamble it and dissipate it, and then at the
midnight hour march out of their club
heart-breakers of honest
say, out of their club houses or elsewhere
and drive east into darkness. The society
roue will lie, he will swindle, he will cheat
at cards, he will forge. he will defalcate,
he will smile in the face of man as
friend while he is wrecking his domestic
honor.''
1t is some comfort to remember that in
the midst of this seething mass of corrup-
ton there are many who lead pure lives,
with whom honor is no idle name, honesty
more than policy. and whose
lives are white and pure; but they are the
five or ten righteous that are saving the
Sodoms and Gomorrahs of their age, and
to them the world owes more than it
knows. HoRATIO.