Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-15
Az MLHEST AND THE REMEDY.


A rERusAL ofthc dispatches yesterday
does not impress one that the spirit Of
peace 10 making Roadway very rapidly
against the plague Of discomfort that
has fallen upon the world In recent
years.
From Memphis comes tho report
that one Of tho leading men OF the
State IA found Ina hotel chamber un.
conscious under dose OF chioroform,
having been held up and robbed Of
what was valuable on his person and
left In the condition described. In
Philadelphia another man Of prom.
inencc Is found murdered In his office,
by whom nobody knows. In Detroit.
an organized gang OF outlaws
Ia discovered who had set them
selves up IN the business OF kid.
mapping and similar methods Of get.
Ing money without labor. From an.
other town IN Michigan comes tho
statement that n respected farmer Of
the nclghborhoOd had split his grand.
daughters head open and then killed
himself, because che had threatened to
80 elsewhere TO live. In Arkansas
City awoman IL frightened from her
premises by threats Of being set upon
by mysterious band Of assasslns who
have been identified with other muir.
dere In tho same ncighborhood. In
near locality another woman dolibcr-
ately throws herself under the wheels
ola railway train. In Denvera young
couple who had been married only
a short time seek volun-
tary death TO escape from the
horrors OF domestic infellclty, the only
word Of explanation 10 the world they
have fled from being the pathetic re-
quest that the nelghbors whose med.
ding had wrought tho complete ruin
Of their lives would permit them to
be "buried side by eide"
This is only part OF the report Of
twenty.four hours, and It may DO csti.
mated that ut least half or three.fourths
Of the record Of crime never finds IT.
way to the press. Such u picture Of
horrors In the electric illuminate ons Of
this advanced period nils one with
strang approhensloDs. It almost In.
spires the feeling that modern
progress Is not "a progressive rs II
might be-; that II the end Of genius,
Inspiration, perpetual labor, endurance
aud sacrifice rs iecurity and happl.
ness-ln other words n perfect salts.
action with life and it, re wafds-theu
the struggles OF science and art aud
economy are by no means doing what
Is supposed.
That which consumes all energies
should In perfect Justice com pass all
rewards. Notwithstanding the mir.
aculous achievements OF this genera.
tion, II seems to be even more weigh ed
down with discomfort than the world
ever before experienced.
Tho turbulence OF mind aud SOU
that makes life a perpetual danger, and
keeps both the wise and the ignorant
In constant terror Of their nelghbors and
OF themselves, seems to yRwn wider
than ever and to drag down a greater
number Of victims than when the
world was lees educated.
While recognizing WILDLY this clash
and conflict OF human interests and the
ruin 1t is making OF tho worlds peace,
we believe, In fact we know, there IL a
remedy. We know that tho splendid
work that human intelligence has
wroughtdurlng the past century should
bring greater rewards 10 the race than
II has done. We know that the RENE.
dy is available. The ono thing which