Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-08
LET ALL GOOD CITIZENS UNITE.

meItel this city ioT SSai Pas'-
The results are Alarming the law
and order citizens. At the rate at
which vice aud immortality are in
creasinr, should they go Oh un-
checked, the day is not distant when
the lawless element will have COM
plete control, and crime run riot in
the community.
Throug bout the whole process Of
retrogression from peace and good
order 20 feign of vice and terror,
one figure stands out in particular
prominence-thst Of Orlando w.
Powers. He carried the election Of
last February for the "Liberalsv for
a consideration. He was openly
paid ten thousand dollars for the
job. The fraudulent processes by
which the result was achieved are
notorious in the community.
We 10 not allude to the frauds Of
last February with the mere object
OF raking up the disgusting embers
of the past. The purpose is to point
a moral and show that every seed
that is planted brings forth of its
kind, according to n natural law.
Hence when a farmer plants an
onion he does not expect to reap
potato. So also when the seeds of
political briars and stink-weed are
sown. it would be insanity TO an
ticipate crop of lilies and grapes.
The present crop of crime and cor
ruption is the natural harvest of
such an election as was conducted
by Mr.. Powers at the opening of
last year.
We are aware that many good
people trained with the "Liberal''
party at the time referred
to. Had they been fully aware
Of the frauds that were be-
ing perpetrated they would prob
ably have hesitated, to say the
least. II they had anticipated the
results which are now self-evident
TO every beholder they would not
have given such a cause aid and
encouragement. But they did not
expect what they now confess ex-
isis TO an alarming extent, and
which now appals them.
Months ago many leading nom
Enormous" had their eyes opened
to the state of affairs which every
good citizen deplores. The clergy
men, at an early stage Of the flood
of corruption, even before it gained
full Roadway, perceived the drift OF
affairs, and representing, as they
did on this question, all lovers Of
sobriety, virtue and good order, ap-
pealed To the City Council to take
steps toward arresting the course of
vice. This brought Mr.. Powers
the ten thousand dollar politician
to the front. He, with uDabashed
efir9ntery, for which he is noted,
stated that during the campaign
preceding the last municipal cleo
ton it was true that the clergymen
had been "consultei,v but so also
had the gamblers and saloon keep
ers." He was also opposed to hav-
ing the condition of this city s'too
good"
This expression from the paid po-
D. liticsl autocrat scarcely needs an
explanation. 1t meant this, if it
-uisaui-, 49, s.sssxs-..fe-fs ~ ve--
wei Tor you eiergymen and other
people in sympathy with you to
claim that the Liberal city govern
ment should take steps toward the
suppression ofdrunkenness, Sunday
concerts, gambling, the operating
o. brn.hels and the like. You have
some claim owing to the support
you gave the party and the prom
Uses made to you during the cam
paign. But, you see, promises
were also made to the whisky SELL
ers, gamblers and others in that
line, and they supported the party.
They outnumber you overwheim-
ingly; so you must expect them TO
be considered as well as you"
This expression was not only an
insult TO the gentlemen vino were
making plea for morality and law.
hut to the whole body Of consistent
citizens who wish to preserve
this city from moral ruin.
Now 1t may be considered pure
business for an attorney to take up
case even when one side of it may
be mslodorous, aud carry it into the
courts. Some attorneys are more
particular than others in that re-
gard. But when an attorney ap-
pears before a legislative and DELHI.
erative and not a judicial assembly,
and seeks, by arguments and legal |
references, to induce that body TO |
make an opposite action on matter
that it has already decided, he goes
outside OF the prerogatives of An
attorney. He acts in a manner that
Is not in unison with his no.
fession. There is no such license
in legal practice unless We
are wofuliy mistaken. Hence.
o. w. Powers appeared before he
City Council last Tuesday as pri-
waite citizen, personally advocating ,
the full establishment and opersion ,
OF an evil that is justly regarded !
everywhere as one Of the m,stdan-
gerous TO morals that can be con-
ceived- The Variety Theatre "A a \
ruie-no exceptions have, 80 far Is n
We can learn, ever been noted. ,;
combines three Of the most debasin,I 5
social phases in existence, and each :,
one Of the three ministers to and :,
feeds the other two.
Is it not time dist the eyes of all ,
good people We're opened to see not
a-g;ils that are increasing
aud ealarging in SAT- Gsse615tGiii
out TO make note OF the conducting
causes, general and individual,
l ms understanding will help in the ,
ami application Of a
curative process.
we have heretofore asserted, and
eport the enunciation, that n.
eiorrnati0n OF the morals OF the y
lily Is a work in which all its good 7
'eopie can unite. Let all differences e
1 sentiment and opinion b, I.iI u
SIDE that there may be a vigorons a
hsiaught upon vice and IawJess Y
e Is Let the object be sough, with 81
All purpose; not as "Liber,ls ), No. o'