Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-14
SERMONS WARN! N:
Of SOCIAL EVIL
----.--
Burning Questions Of the Day
Are Discussed by
Ministers.
DANGERS ARE LYING IN WAIT
Now the Time TO Save the City From
Threatened Overwhelmingly
tt.;ss Withthe People.

rhcrc is nothing in the place that
looks like II. is to be reformatory. 1t
,ooyxs more like u deliberate plan to
make merchandise out OF woman's
shame and misfortune. And what
aver tends to degrade or encourage
and protect in their degradation these
( fallen women, to me is u most damnn-
bic conspiracy against tho helpless
y unfortunates of our city. Shame OH
such a method and shame on n people
that advocates these methods, or even
wjnks al thcm.-The Rev. ID. NJ. Hell
mick.
The very thought of legally tolerat-
ing these vicious, immoral, and crtm-
inal businesses is from n moral or re-
lfgious standpoint intolcrable. They
should be vigorously, continuously and
uncompromisingly condemned by
public opinion and hunted out OF the
city, county and state by the officers
of tho law. The only place to segrc-
gate such law breakers is in the jail,
tic prison or the pcnitcntiarS.-Ih
Rev. WIN Padcn.
This is not question of politics; 1t
Is not u question of parties at all. and
lie who seeks to make IL such 1t not
lit to have a voice or vote III the mat
ter. II is Il shame in the twentieth
century that we are compelled to con-
fcss that the social evil is not and can
not he cradicatcd. The stOcl1adc that.
& Is being built is Il disgrace to any city.
A A. q tS. rvicH vice
ana dcba,lchcry. Every dollar IN II
Is corrupted dollar.--Tllc Rev.
Goshen. 81.
Tic opposition to this whole bust
ness OF lust is found in my children
ana my mciglibOrs whom IL is my bls'-
ness TO help preserve in the Integrity
Of their souls, and my city proposes
tho devotion of part Of the city 70
Tic officially sanctioned business OF
tlcbnucllcry 1t is safe to assert tilat
following the history OF other citics'
tic district will be read in more
senses than one, and the calendar OF
crime will be heightened greatlS-'IChle
Rev. Peter a. SimplSin.
4 In, nearly every church of The city,
there resounded from the pulpit yes
terday a plea for civic Righteousness.
At some places of worship services
we're held in the morning, at others
in the afternoon. while in some the
meeting convened in the evening, Not
in long time has need been tci'
for concerted movement In the
churches against manifest or threaten
ed evils in municipal affairs as at The
present time
In some instances, the proposed
stockade plan of promoters OF the
..red light" district was attacked and
denounced in no uncertain tones. A
number of speakers did not mention
the social evil directly. but urged a
general reform in municipal affairs and
called upon the people to awake from
their apathy and come to realization
of the fact that they constitute the
city and that the municipality is a cor
poration in which all the people are
stockholders, and it should be given
the same fostering care that would be
bestowed upon a private concern. In
one or two instances speakers We're
blind as to real evils existing in this
city, and passed them over with
mere word