Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-29
SILVER DICK ON
THE MODERN CITY
Holds Attention Of Big Audience
At Y. M. C. A. for Over
Two Hours.
The CURSE OF THE SALOON
Blamcs n aud IT, attendant Evils for
The Hoticnncss Existing In the
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A large and Interested audience
greeted Adam DIXON Warner known on
the Pacific coast az silver Dick" al
the y M. c. A. sunday afternoon Mr.
Warner lectured on THE Modern
CITY" ana from 4.30 until nearly
O'Clock he held the attention Of his
hearers by his eioquence and convinc-
ing arguments. Mr. Warner said in
part:
IT takes strong. resolute deter
mined men 10 make and keep mod
ern city clean. A city win be good and
clean and great. just as Its men and
women. its society. is good and clean
and great by society I mean each and
every individual unit i is YOU and u
II l.
Henry Ward Bcecher said that the
three great elements which enter into
the career OF a great citizen are, that
which his ancestry gives that when
opportunity gives and That which ms
win develops. SO II human character
is the camera OF human development.
then civic virtue will be just what the
genius and the viii Of the people de-
velop.
''The proper solution OF the many
complex problems Of modern city life
is the solution OF the greatest questions
o. the century They are as many and
as varied as the vices and virtues OF
mankind.
A DUMPING GROUND
ITO govern a modern city is very
different thing from governing the
cities Of the old. They we're mere con-
geries or provinces. with a frugal
population scattered over great areas,
with diversified occupations and fixed
places Of abode while our great cities
are the dumping ground Of the Slav
the Hindu, Italian and Yiddlsh pauper
labor brought into this country by the
steamship lines owned and dominated
by the interests In contrast 10 the
splendid type OF Scandinavian, Irish or
German, who. q few years ago. came
20 acquire homes on the soil. For the
first time IN the history Of the country
the next census win show a majority
OF the population IN the cities. In them
ara all Sof the newspapers. the col
leges. the PhoOls OF art and science.
the great teachers and preachers, the
theatere or action and inaction. the
places Of amusement and instruction
and the places ~ degradation and
destruction And they are all domi-
through special privileges and returns
through college. university and civic
control. Disguise 20 as we may. such
l. the character Of our cities Of to-
day.
NONE FREE FROM CRAFT.
4 make the bold statement that
there is not a city N the United States
that Is free from graft IN its civic
government. The promotion OF over
"a IIffIIf
porations Is graft"
The speaker paid considerable atten-
ton TO the question of public owner
ship Of utilities. He also took occasion
10 denouhce the proposed championship
night between ferries and johnson and
declared u would be better for salt
i.ake To raise purse for an aviation
week than a prizehght He said;
The court records OF our cities dis
close not only the necessity OF abso-
lutte control OF public utilities. but dis
close the necessity OF some control over
the ordinary business transactions Of
men, 20 insure honesty and square deal
ing. Some men say that you cannot
make man honest by law That NAV
be literally true. but You can prevent
him from being too dishonest You can
scare dishonesty into honesty by law.
~ say TO you that you might as well
Try 10 dam up Niagara without stop
ping tho supply OF water as TO stop
graft without changing the conditions
II the city Is rotten, then the majority
or It's citizens are rotten, or your gov
eminent Is a living lie.
MOVE THE SALOON
Until you remove the saloon from
your best business corners and best
business streets where your sons and
daughters are forced 10 run the gaunt-
NaaH NJ AL ~ al
them with moral Influences. until you
stop putting 80 or 100 gin mills on
your best business thoroughfanes, until
YOU stop Incorporating az a Christian
gentleman ON sunday and voting for
that increased rent from the baWdy
house on Monday until you remove the
death houses from the streets and put
a few nature places and healthy places
or pleasant recreation and amusement
for the young men and young women
in their stead. until you change that
poker room. or bridge room into q quiet
devotional room. where you can take
that boy or girl and slt down by his
or her side Ike a brother. until YOU
quit ringing up that telephone and ask
ing Jack, or Tom on Billy 90 bring Up
a nask in the afternoon before the old
man comes home, YOU will have rotten
cities and rotten government and rot
ten homes.
Ine fotirunfsH uf New York CHI
cago. San Francisco and "a hundred 9th
er cities of America ls so appalling to-
day that Do is d wonder that the iu-
dulgence and mercy OF am Almighty
God has not been Withdrawn LONG ago
TO THE YOUNG Mas.
'some az yon young men are now.
ana within "a very fcu years an of YOU
VIII be- shaping the destiny OF not only
civic. but national government, and
Che destiny NJ this republic is in your
keeping m is truism of history that