The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-27
MO SINCERITY IN 1T.

When q notorious scold gets on the
rampage, no one pays much attention.
for the reason that It is known that n
the scold has no reason for scolding,
the scold viii scold just the same. 1t
is for this reason that those partisan
and professional scolds who are railing
at the Health Department OF this city
receive so little OF the public attention
that their walls are more comicnl than
edifying.
First the outcry was because the cost
OF cleaning up the city was 40 much
more than the cost when no cleaning
was done. That was met by emphatic
approval by leading citizens of the
cleaning, and of the added expendi-
lures to make IT. Then II was protested
that the cleaning hadn't been done
coupled with an admission in the same
protest, that II had been done. So tho
shifting of ground had no effect; the
wall still went unhecded,
Then there was an outcry because
the patients at the smallpox hospital
were being over-fed But the so-called
exposures demonstrated clearly that
II the patients were to be fed at all
the amounts were not too great, Th1s
grumblng at the feeding of patients at
this hospital came chiefly from the
church organ which doesn't believe In
vaccination, thinks that any one VINO
keeps clean won't have smallpox, and'
anyway that whoever has smallpox
only needs to have It's editor or some
other cider lay hands on the patient
and he viii be cured: 80 that neither
hospital nor feeding at the public ex-
pense Ia at all necessary.
This denunciation of local conditions
is emphasized from the same quarter
by an indecent claim that the city Is
bankrupt; that It is ruined by eXtraVa-
gance and Jobs; that 1t Is In the hands
of boodlers, who are about to raise the
taxes so that no one can afford TO own
property here; that nothing Is being
done to add to the water supply: and
oil this string of impudent falsehoods
paraded day by day is expected TO In
vlte here population and the investment
OF capital
portion of this implacable gang not
long ago, to destroy public confidence
In great mine OF this State; not that
there was any truth or reason In what
the denunciators said. but 1t was calcu-
lated TO be a blow at Utahs mining
Industry in general, as the chief In that
attack has for years assailed the smelt-
Ing industry in this valley and de-
manded that the smelters must go"
All the time, this same gang of inso-
lent detractors has been in hot outcry
against "knocklng." What II meant by
knocking" was the demand that tho
compacts made by Utah and the domi-
nant church here should be observed;
that good faith should be kept that
the transgressors should not continue to
bring illegitimate children into the
world after the date set by themselves
when this should cease: that polyga-
nous living as we'll as new polysamous
relations should stop; that the church
should cease It's control OF politics and
OF civil affairs:-to insist upon these
eminently Just and fair-minded things
was knocking"
But to attack the city falsely as an
unfit place TO live in; to declare 1T as
food for the pawn-shop. looted and dis
honored; place where taxes would
rob the property-owner so that It Is
wise for men Of means and enterprise
to keep away from here; to proclaim
that graft prevails everywhere; to
falsely shout that a great mine which
adds to the staunchness OF the mining
repute OF the State and figures promi-
nently In Utah's brilliant record of MI
ming dividends, is played out;-all this
is a pious duty, not because there Is
any truth in It at all. for there Is not:
but 1t seems to crafty partisan and
blind and sectarian malignity; but to
insist on law and order is an outrage.
All Of which leads one to say that the
less we have OF that sort of piety. the
better; and the more we have of plain.
everyday. civilized common sense, the
better the city and It's people will be Off.