Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-16

lSCluISIS anu dluluS OIuerS W DSllJIle
and insult the state from the pulpit
and platform has been the chief end
and aim of the Ministerial associa-
ton. Last Sunday they had chance
to heap insult upon injury, DR.. Paden
on that day devoted most of his time
to leading his congregation to believe
that Salt Lake was a vast gambling
hell. According to the newspaper re-
ports he did not say one word to
boost Salt Lake, but painted it as
black as he could. The Rev. McLain
Davis talked along the same lines as
DR.. Paden and closed his talk with a
series of resolutions all of which con-
| demned Salt Lake. DR.. Taylor of the
Central Christian church told lurid
tale and said: Capital is very deli
cate thing itself and besides no right
thinking man will move his family in
to a Sodom (Salt Lake, of iniquity
however great opportunities a city
may offer in a commercial way"
| DR.. Young took pains to say Salt
Lake City had a blistering hell right
in its midst He said nothing good
about Salt Lake. The Rev. d. M.
Helmick of the Tiff church said:
| 1.-THE condition of Salt Lake City
possibly is not worse than it is in
some other cities, but l question ii
you can find city in the United State
of its size that has more fragrant
crime than is committed here every
night and day."
The Rev. Frank Fay Eddie of the
Unitarian society also classified Salt
Lake as one of the worst cities. l be-
lieve it is conceded by all that the i'm
morality of any city is usually mea-
sured by the number of licensed sa-
looms and drinking houses within it's
borders, and many saloons are under
ground railroads to gambling dens,
sporting houses and resorts of thieves
and hold-ups. l have before me the
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Almanac for 1906
The first white settler came to
Wilkesbarre in 1862, and it has had
time to become a thoroughly moral
Gentle city. In 1905 Wilkesb arre had
$4,000 population and 139 licenced sa-
looms, or one saloon for every 400
people. Salt Lake City has 10000
people and 100 licenced saloons. or
one saloon for every 500 people.
Walkesbarre has sixty-six Christian
and four Jewish churches, and is con.
s1dered good moral city. 1t stands
at par morally with the cities of it's
| class. Luzerne county, PENNSYLVANIA.
OF which Wilkesbarre is the county
seat had $4,000 population in 1900
and over 1000 saloons, or one saloon
Tor every PSI people. In 1900 Utah
mad 276,OOO people and less than 27C
saloons, or one saloon for 1000 people
West Hazleton, Pa a Gentle town
had in 1900 $500 people and 2S H.
censed saloons, or one licensed sa
loon for eighty-nine people. Brigham
City, Utah, in 1900 had 1900 people
and two saloons, or one saloon for
l,45O people. Freeland Pr, a Gen.
tile city, in 1900 had a population OF
5,254 and fifty-eight licensed saloons
or one saloon for every ninety paople.
Logan, Utah, in 1900 had 5.45i popu.
lation and four saloons, or one saloon
for every 1882 people.
The Rev. Frank Fay Eddie wants
Salt Lake to be a Gentle CITY,
speak of Brigham City and Logan as
ordinary Utah cities, and West Hazle.
ton and Freeland, Pa, to show the
limit to which saloons will go if tbey
are unrestrained. Salt Lake Citv
stands at the very pinnacle of the
cities of the United States for NOR.
atty, schools, business opportunities
and everything that goes to make
good and prosperous CITY, Our school
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