Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-05
WORK FOR A HERCULES.

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That was moot scathing tobuke
administered by Judge Bradley to the
crowd that gathers daily in the court
AMI corridors and streets 10 0rlof 90
obtain glimpse Of the two central
figures ia the notorious Pollard.
BreoklnrIjgo drama, aui TO feast
ON the Sensational revelations
made a. tho trial proceeds. And
the metaphor employed by bic honor
when he compared the eager spectators
10 lot Of buznrds waiting tor ban-
quet on a cafcsss, vii be admitted to
convey the full truth Ia an appropriate
manner, Whatever nag be- thought Of
tho elegance u the expression. But
the rebukc IL lash that reaches a good
deal farther than to the slckly crowd
Immediately within the sound Of the
iuigo's voice. 10 bits the millions aIl
over the country who, by "cifcum-
stances over which they have NO con-
ifol,n ire prevented from miugliug
with that crow, but who eagerly
srlzc the newspapers AMI devouf every
line OF the Infamous scandal wired 10
oil the dailles from ocean 10 ocean, a. q
the tale Of sln aud shame were a mai.
ter u vital Importance to the nation.
IL IL a petty hard hli, too,
calculated 10 awaken reflections
In many minIs as to whittier
tho current Of puUllc morals is drlidug.
but In this matter as Ia 10 many
others, II Is much easier 20 reeognlzo
the exisieuos Of u doplorable condition
than " mad a sufficient remedy,
The great majority Of people insis,
upon knowing all the pnr.lollaB 81
such thugs. They will crowd the
court foomi to susaui hear Tor them.
sclv,s, Or they will buy tho newspaper
that contain tho fullest Aud most
plquant reports, some viii even prefer
sheets whore facts, through pictorial
representations and highly colorod
slalomeuH, aro given with much
more establishment than the naked
tu,h warrants, They never stop to
think that ny yielding TO craving
OF this Kind again snd agaln the effect
IL that their own moral taste becomes
gradually les refined until IL reaches
the level Of corruption; nor DO they
remember that such condition IL
transmitted In some degree to tho pos.
terlty aud that the standard Of good
taste 10 ny a process Of natural laws
lowered. They may know that these
results obtain Ia the physical world
where people enslAvoi by habits Of Ia.
temperance anu oyer.indulgenco aud
70 on often leave their Offspring In a
condition Of physical wreck. But
they overlook the fact that the
laws Of Inheritance govern the
moral aud mental domain with
~ much force ~ the physical world,
and that the continued yielding ~ the
appetite Tor the acandalous Is a. fatal 20
the progress OF tho human race Ia the
direction u morality ami rtnuoment
as IL the indulgence In strong drinks to
the physical development Anu many
ot those who know all this simply do
not care 10 act accordingly. Their
morbid curiosity must BIO sautnad,
whatever may DO the consequences TO
themselves aud to generations yet ua.
born.
All this Is deplorablc, but where
IL the remedy? Where IL tho Her.
uules who IL ablo TO turn thu
cleansing rivera through the Augean
stables that threaten to render the
world obnoxiou,2 Societies arc now
adays formed for everything, including
suicide; but Il would seem that toc.
city for the IurincatIon OF the public
morals by refining the taste In such
maitofs and by creating demand for
u clean public press ana really limo.
cent ADJUSTMENTS, would HUI field
worthy the best efforts Of the noblcst
men and women In this anu every
other Cuuntry.