The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-28
Ask for Tuckett's candies.
BYE THE BYE.

Iscariot betrayed the Master. It may not
have been with kiss, but Salt Lake was
betrayed when Liberalism unlocked the |
doors of the city for the lawnessness of the
day.
Go where one may on Main or other |
business streets, electric lights point the
way to the ''club rooms,'' the veriest hell
holes of earth. These furnish ungarbled
tales of ''filching and fleecingn from night
to night. He who yields to the temptation,
possessed of the root of all evil,n could
tell tale that would cause honest men to
stop and think, and fathers and mothers to
weep over the frailties of their erring sons.
Not long since ''club rooms" were, com
paratively speaking, unknown in Salt
Lake. Few, If any, found Judgement in
this magnificent valley knew comparative
ly nothing of gambling, save that which
came to them in story. Mark the met
amophorsis known to every intelligent man
of the city. Prior to the present official
regime the evils that are, were almost IN
known. To-day there are seventy six gam
bling bells in the city, while dozen
y
unknown. To what does the honest re-
ligious world attribute the change!
"Well, WE'LL" says the man who covets
the deposit of "flchers and fieecers," Ger
tain evils must be condoned and licensed
to help pay the running expenses of city.
but God pities the hellish idea License
men to steal License men to take ninety
nine chances out of a hundred against mis-
| fellows License men to pocket honest
earned dollars on wheels of fortune that
turn but one way! License girl to sac
rifce her virtue and soul to the passion of
the horde that ought to be penned up
rather than be permitted to run at large!
Such cussedness is sufficiently rebuked in
that beautiful scriptural sentence, blessed
are the pure in heart for they shall see
God"
The so-called ;'social evils" however, are
not the only evils that ought to invite pub
lie attention and criticism. Street improve
ments are being made without we'll estab
lished grades, necessitatlng outlandish ex
penSe that must necessarily be repealed in
a very short time. but, no matter" says
one, 'the end justifies the means. Numer-
Gus workmen on our streets gives the visi =
tor and capitalist the idea of thrift and en-
terprise and leads them to locate with us
Does it strike you that reaction must come
when taxpaying time comes! If Salt Lake
is ever ready to make permanent improve
ments on the streets, she is able to make
them now Double taxation is an evil of
moment. Concrete ought never to be put
down even as temporary pavement.
1t can be said, truly, that Salt Lake is a
model for order and sobriety, considering
the vast number of saloons and dives
within her limits. Yet she is not perfect
in this respect by several furlongs. AL
though the police force, generally, is Ylgi-
LIANT thereis work thatsome of the members
neglect to their discredit. Possibly in
structions may not cover shortcomings in
this respect, and if not the head Of the de-
partment falls little short of moral duty.
Interiors rarely usurp authority. Ia word,
there are opium joints on Commercial
street that ought to be shut up forever and
aye. There are, also, other evils within
piping distance of these joints that ought
to be inquired into. In fact, the street
barring reputable residents, might he
dubbed ''rotten rows with propriety. /
the under police have any authority at All
it ought to go far enough to close up anC
restrain every evil, moral or otherwise
that comes within their knowledge and it:
members ought to be men of sufficient char
acter and standing to see that the decen
public is kept rid of all nuisauces. j. j. j.