The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-21
Social Purity Campaign Inaugu-
rated BY the W. C. 7. u.
SHOCKING REVELATIONS
TWO PROMINENT YOUNG MEN
UNDER ARREST.
There Are Others, Whose Sins Will
Be Brought to Light-Morals of
the City In Very Bad State-The
Fight On Senator Dubois Bitter
to the Last Degree
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Boise. Ida, March 19.-Boise, the
beautiful; Boise the bad. are now in
Interchangeable expressions. This city
has never set itself up as a model OF
morality, but it has been supposed to
be decent, and the people of the capital
for so long closed their eyes prayer
fully to the sin that surrounded them
that they in time came to think Boise
after all was really pasSably pious
place. This week they have been
rudely awakened With Parkhurster-
ian vigor some of the members of the
w. c. T. L. have ratified the dry bones
until many of the people have sick
ened at the thoughts of the wickedness
that has encomDassed them. Under
the Verv shadows of the sanctuary
have fair daughters of this city been
ruined by social lepers who, in some
cases, have been classed among the
bon-tOn of the city. Old Nick has won
victories on the very inside of houses
Of worship and has with fair success
carried his campaign of corruption into
the public schools. 1t is a spectacle that
may well cause the fathers and moth
ers of this place to tremble for the
safety of their sons and daughters. The
women of the w. c. T. Z. held a con-
ference ard decided on plan of ac-
ton, the execution of which they knew
would bring shame and sorrow to more
than one household, but which they
felt would be the only effective remedy,
if, indeed, anything at all could be
done.
Like a clap of thunder from clear
sky came the announcement that, at
the instance of the president of the w.
c. T. o., Mrs. Nancy Stevenson, two
of the best known young men of the
city, Joseph Spiegel and William
Maxey, had been arrested, charged
with assaulting Ethel Jefferies of
Weiser, who has been attending the
public school of this city. Their case
is now pending in the courts and other
arrests are promised.
Shocking as are the details of this
case, they are .dwarfed before the ter
rible truth as regarding the moral
condition of the city as a whole;
Dozens of other girls have been ruined;
dozens of other homes have been dark
ened by the shadow of lustful mon
sters. AS yet these cases have not had
the light of public investigation turned
onto them, but none can tell where the
present agitation will end.
The superintendent of schools has
found it necessary to call the police
to patrol the school grounds to pro-
tect young girls from the allurements
of men and boys who hang about the
enclosure, and some of the teachers or
the public schools almost nightly are
seen in questionable company, even
drinking and carousing at restaurants
and resorts. The conduct of at least
two of the public school teachers has
been called to the attention of the
school trustees. The evidence of their
guilt was conclusive. still they were
not dismissed. Those at the bottom
of the present movement declare it to
he their purpose to sleaye no stone I'M
turned to ventilatel the whole matter
and bring the guilty parties to Justice.
They will no doubt clear the atmos-
phere and at the same time weed from
Boise society the leeches who have
hung to it By reason of parental or
money influences. Social leaders are
scanning carefully their lists these
days and the names of several Young
men who have enjoyed their hospitali-
ties have been stricken off.
CASE OF MR.. DUBOIS.
In the history of politics in the
northwest there has not been a more
striking illustration of loss of prestige
of a leader than is presented in the
case of ex-senator Dubois. Beaten in
his attempt to be reelected to the
United States senate. he finds his
former political friends putting forth
every effort TO push him further down
the HILL and today a most bitter SIGHT
is on against him. in comparison with
which the old Mormon fight is as MOTH
ing Then he had behind him the solid
Republican party. Now, not only are
the Republicans and a respectable ele-
ment of the Democrats and POpulists
arrayed against him. but, as has here
tofore been shown, unrelenting war
fare is being waged against him by
prominent members of his own party,
the silver Republicans. Yesterday the
Moscow Double Standard Mr.. Sweets
paper, arrived here containing unmis-
taxable confirmation of my statements.
In q four column editorial Mr.. Sweet
puts Mr.. Dubois on the toaSting fork
and holds him uncomfortably near the
fire. No Mckinley Republican editor
in the state in the heighth of his wrath
could have begun to say as mean
things about Mr.. Dubois as did Mr..
Sweet in this article.
In this attack some profess to see a
desire on the part of Mr.. Sweet to get
back into the Republican party. But
nothing of the sort is intended. Sweet
would be the leader, that's all it
amounts to: and he is so regarded to-
DAY. The manifesto does mean, how
ever. that the proposed silver union
will be a great deal more difficult TO
bring about. and that the Idaho politi
cal situation is much more complicated
than it promised to be a short time