The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-06-01
DECAY OF MORALS.

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SUITS to prove that they were men, The other half
! wore cadet uniforms to announce that thew were
! men, And the two halves combined in smoking q
cheap grade OF Turkish dope cigarettes to make it
appear beyond all question of doumt that they
were all men.
| with loud and disgusting talk they boarded the
car. well-dressed and refined young woman seat
eel III the center of one of the long seats in the
car, was horrlhed at the speech and actions of the
detachment of High school hoodums She endeav-
ored to change her position but was hedged in upon
either side by a string of vIe-mouthed cigarette
smokers.
Passengers interceded in the ady's behalf and
brought the offenders under subsection until the
lady left the car at Main street-Salt Lake Herald
Friday, May %.
The placarding, at its own expense, of this dis
graceful and dirty exhibition of low vulgarity of
the young High school gentlemen, by the Herald,
is an insult to the professors of the distinguished
institution and a public arraignment of the code
of decency framed for the education of our SONS
and daughters. The Herald has large and de-
servedly growing circulation and we cannot under
stand how it ventures to imperil its journalistic
health by exposing itself to the draughs of hot and
articulated air, vulgarly called damnable profan-
ity, escaping from the class rooms of the high
and public schools where these refined young gem
tlemen are being educated
Things coming to a nice pass in Salt Lake
City, when a can't cut his throat in his own
back yard go away on visit of two or three
months with the wife of an acquaintance, or where
young gentlemen, wearing scholastic uniforms
cannot have a "high old time" squirting tobacco
Juice on the dress of young woman and on the
dirty floor of a street car without this notorious
newspaper calling attention to it.
It's all very we'll for this scent sheet to tell us
that IF it happens it's in the Herald" but we pro-
test it's not fair to many of u.s. nor is it square
deal to advertise all Utah the mental imbe-
city, the stupidity and inherited or acquired vul-
garity of those for whom we are not responsible
For example, when one of our respected clergymen
was hard pressed, few Sundays ago. to get ma
terial for his serrnon-something that may happen
to any of our divines-and 'went for" the big U
so innoculously reposing ON a sloping hillside and
for the dear young men who laid It's foundation in
Zion, the Herald meanly proclaimed that the be-
loved pastor doleing out spiritual mush to the
babes of grace Graded in his little church, Then
couple of days later, this nefarious organ published
a defense of the big on the part of another very
learned gentleman, animated tabernacle shrns-
ing mass of solid sense, whose affection for the
big L, and the choice and elegant words in which
that affection was expressed evoked the enthusiasm
of the sophomores and petition to the dean of
the university for that rarely conferred honor
D. D. for the Rev. Gentleman
We cannot repress the malicious suspicion that
this same Herald is the organ of diabolic con-
spiracy established for the ruin and destruction of
our revered pastors and teachers. This suspicion
first flashed upon us, with the brightness of cal
cium light, when read not long ago scare head
article of this mercenary publication recounting
the sorrows and misfortunes of one of our promi-
nent educationsts with his young wife Could not |
this poor man, to whom we commit the education |
of our children, enter the divorce court and say
that he made deuce of a mistake and since he
took the young woman for better or for worse, he
found her blamed sight worse than he took her
for, without the Herald blazoning it all over the
country Was it right for the Herald to listen to
the conversation of the young woman with the |
Judge, and then come out on the streets the next |
morning, and shout aloud the terrible things the
innocent young creature told the judge about her
husband, whom she called "commonniny' and a /
milk sop?" Even if our spiritual and educational
teachers are Sob lot"-which we deny-is it the
proper thing for any newspaper particularly wide
y circulated and simultaneously read paper like
the Herald to tell it in Gath and publish it in the
streets of Ascalon!
And after gadding about and repeating
these nasty stories ON our elders it must needs turn
upon our dear young High school lambs and, tear
ing the wool from their poor backs and Sides expose
the purifying and supurating sores of the gentle
creatures 1t is not necessary to repeat to us, who
are we'll informed, that the young man who dis
graces himself, disgraces his uniform, and that he
who disgraces his uniform dsgraces that for which
t stands Nor need we be told that the school boy
Who discredts the uniform of Elton, Harrow or
INV of the high schools of England, is rusticatcd
md that if he misbehaves himself publicly, and
hames his uniform and school, he is expelled. When
IN Austrian cadet by, his rascally behavior wounds
he honor of his company he is ANONYMOUSLY kicked
nut and the members of his company wear Grape for
,nontb far the disgrace brought upon them An