Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-16
THE SAME OLD STORY.

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History repeats itself, The ministers
az the City have felt it their duty 70
denounce the stockade plan adSocateu
BY some City officials, just as the MN
isters here, in 1891, after having helped
tho Liberal party into power, were conf.
nellt,a By % sense of decency, TO can
mass meeting and protest Against
Liberal mtsrule. At that time VOC,
crime and lawlessness became SO ram
mint as to call for drastic measures.
Dr mfr. who never was under t1e
susnicion of being in sympathy WIN
thn I.atter-day Saints said at lilal
meeting that never before had there
nvistod in this city the necessity for
a meeting of this kind" lie aoueu
that "he had voted. and enthuslasticai-
ly. too. for every member of the pres
ent city council, because ne thousii'
,bat in doing so he was working iol, 'iie'
t,ast interests Of the whole people. aut
,,tnon he found that ordinances, when
every good man believed were Jus.
nnd right, were ignored, he was ne
rore tbe audience to most earnestly
aud vigorously protest against sucii d
state Of affairs"
,rhe trouble then was similar 10 tut
me present time. Unscrupulous
3olil;eians had, under promises Oh
sreforms'' Induced good men 10 No.e
f,, tt,sir selfish ends and purposes. l5ut
"a 49, l,e vote was obtained all prom
4 ,1,,.. ~, Forgotten. or ignored, and the
~ filed up with all kinds OF pau
,,aracters until the streets became u'i-
safe at night. History repeslss
se,f The decent citizens VINO "eio
Induced by, all manner of false prelen .
"a throw their votes away at the
sn,adinr Of selfish politicians now. nave
5c,use to regret it.. They, too, thought
thev Were working for the best 1nter-
ests Of the whole people, but they ii'u
4 mat the time has again come ior
vigorous protest.
Itfis,s however, not strange that mat
ters should have turned out tnls Was.
frheS so-called American" moVelllen.
.v,s conceived as Al measure Of revenge
h..c.,rse the Church authorities retuseu
10 53lend their aid to the furtherance "
the plans OF political schemers entireis
unlit for tho offices to which theS as as
n,red. +. ii was founded on no higher
principle than that. That it was 'olheu
H. many mistaken but we'll meaning an
,sor,e with higher aims and nopler
& motives, ID not denied, but the 'rue
origin was, as stated And IN order tos
vain followers, the promoters were uii-
IA. tho necessity or inventing all xmas
ar falsehoods, and make all KINDS OF
,nIsre nresentations They were under
tbc necessity OF making grand stallu.
plays nj home and before me ha,ioh'
aud to play the part of hypocriles' put
q movement resting on such q ioutoa-
+;on and constructed SO losely. must
soouer or later reveal its true charac-
Tor. Nothing else can be expected.
we are pleased that tho ministers
have taken the matter up All eoou
citizens will approve of their condemn
alton OF the infamous scheme some
NAV consider it impossible to drive that
form of vice out of a city, but is II!
Let those whose duty it Is to maintain
51re law Try. But they should not cons
fne their efforts 10 the Incarceration
.or women. They should go Just as
FAR as the law gives them power to 60,
and call the owners of property USED
Tor lewd purposes to account, ana
those who resort TO those places, as
e,yell as the agents who rent property
,,uF vor unlawful acts Let the au-