Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-23
on EVE OF PIONEER DAY.


We stand upon the threshold Of an
other Pioneer day. Conditions face US
that are not altogether unlike those
that Moses and his people were endur-
ing In the land OF Egypt DO you ASK:
Are We I'm bondage?" The answer Is
evident only 10 men and women who
think and WORK for better things.
ltisnot our task this morning 70 crit
icize particular persons We are not
here 10 answer for the lamentable re-
81 3 Of past sins IN our community.
II is sufficient TO know what sad con-
ditlons prevail A physician. whose eX-
perlence has been vide, said 20 me
some time since that he had never seen
a place. for It's size, where more de-
geneTacy prevailed than In salt Lake
City. Visitors 10 our naturally fair city
have oftentimes remarked upon the
number OF eXpress!onless countenances
Of human beings that throng our
streets. study II you plese, the physi-
ognomy Of the great number Of young
women who seem 10 be on the round OF
pleasureseeking day after day and eve
ming after evening What do you find:
Take a trip 10 cur resorts. Count the
number OF faces without intelligent eN-
preston, note the want OF modesty and
womanly graces Mark you. this Is
what others outside say Of US.
POLITICAL CONDITIONS.
Having taken this superficial glance,
n YOU will then turn your glance in
wardly 20 our political conditions. shall
] say that a brighter view viii entrance
you? | wish ! could. For now We are
looking az the source which may be
LARGELY responsible Cor the conditions
existing. Do our political parties or our
officials DO an Boz their power 20 allevi-
az. these conditions? / fear the oppo-
sitc Is too true Months ago there
we're promises Of the purest rule; but
tcday some leaders seem To- be walking
hand IN hand with lawlessness and
vice. on the main street Of our fair
clt, one sees men going IN and out of
saloons on the Lords day as on other
days. Nor do the resorts make any pre-
tense al closing their bars or beer gar
dens. so We are informed II Is very
doubtful n q would be paying propo-
sition 70 run a resort without a bar
VOTES or THE LAwLEss,
Do these things help our young peo-
rle7 Where is the man who dares say
they doe There Is @ low moral tone
ir deed when Il Is said that a partys
reelection 20 Office Is dependent upon
its standing IN with lawlessness. Each
man needs such votes 10 carry him
through AT the next election so we are
told. i'nhesitatlngly ] say that the
perty that Is dependent Tor rs con-
tinuance IN Office on any such element
Of society does not deserve the suffer
ance OF highthlnking men. do not be-
Beye n Is necessary, for surely the
Marty An power has higher motives and
can rely II Il will, upon righteousness.
Whatever be the name of the party
that party is doomed that toadies %
lawlessness Il must cease playing A
double hand.
In me midst 81 such conditions the
CRY comes from God just as distinctly
20 Us men as 10 did 90 Moses. VIII your
answer be-. Here am l." You may
hesitate for a while and conjure up
an excuse a. Moses tried TO do, but
YOU can not down the cry OF the inno-
cent. II IL the cry ~ God. lie is
calling you while you are 81 your occu-
nafion as vas Moses. You have q
higher mission than mere self and your
work for those who are dependent upon
Won directly. Your city beckons you
10 her rescue VIII you quit yourselves
like men and rise 20 her deliverance |
nom bondage. or viii you turn deaf
ear ~ its CALI II you do the latter
you may awake some day 90 find your
son or your daughter On the clutches of
a bondage far worse than the physical
bondage % Israel under tho Egyptians I
NEED LOCAL PATRIOTISM.
We need 10 establish some degree Of I
pride for the things that are worthy I
of our respect IN our midst local /
patriotism !s necessary. one such on.
nnrtunitv ought 20 be found IN Pioneer
dsy. THIS day does not belong 10 any /
class of people li is your day and my /
day. ~ well Everyone ~ us came 4
here I should think with n conscious I
ness n some duty % perform. We be- .
lftve we are where God would have ne /
and each of us has work 90 do right I
here and nght now Are We doing II /
az ciuEens 81 great republic that de- .
lights 10 cali Itself the land 81 the /
free and the home of the hraye' LEI I
us seek our feedom from me low ideals /
that have existed and win our victory .
by g bravery worthy o. Christian men
and women
CITYs GREAT RESOURCES
Nature with mans skill has made US