The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-18

lins. But frankly tell you why / did
not refer to these No one cares
about them. For two years | went at
the question from this approach, and
Jackson OF the Journal said, oh bosh!'
Suppose | tell you about a home
where the husband squanders the $50
he makes each week In a city protect
ed gambling house, while he compels
his wife to take In washing to sup
| port the growing family, Suppose |
| tell you OF the havoc wrought IN that
home-the unhappiness and the want!
Do you care? Does any one care? E?
Why, no-that's only commonplace.
| Suppose / tell YOU Of a lad of seven
teen who Is the only support of his
mother over In Plain City, and who Is
allowed to gamble in a police-protect-
| ed poker game. permitted to run In
a Twenty-fourth street saloon! Who
cares? Suppose | tell you about the
homes go into where men and women
are battered and beaten and broken
by institutions which the city protects
while they work their devillsh work,
Suppose I do You'd laugh at my eff
Terminate sentimentalism. You can
not base any appeal upon sucn trashy
| nonsense In Ogden.
Haven't I spoken of the wreckage
cast upon the shore by liquor and vice
and what have you said? oh. those
weren't Ogden boys; they came from
Pocatello OF Cheyenne AS II it
made any difference where a boy came
from. Do we want our Ogden boys
sacrificed upon the vicious affairs Of
Cheyenne. and when We protest
These are our lads and we love them
WELL be informed that Cheyenne cares
not a whit for the Ogden product?
"One night 1 found no less than
twenty boys in the alley and when I
went the next day to prominent OF.
fetal with my story, what do you
think he said? This: why. Elder
kin, those weren't Ogden boys AS
il the sons of God dwelt only on Mob
Hill! AS IL only a boy born In Ogden
was worth savingl AS IL God himself
cared only that heaven should be peo-
pied with Ogdenitesl AS If God said:
II they come from Reno shut the
gates of heaven on themn Who is
this stupid God, anyway? How did
He come by mis- peevlsh Idea of the
immeasurable superiority Of Ogden
grown boys? Does he care nothing at
all for boys born In Butte or Boise?
If such God dwells in Zion, let's set
out on the march tonight in search OF
a more generous God. A bigger one
must dwell somewhere beyond the sun
81 say this, then The imperative
task of a newspaper which pretends
TO stand for cleaner and more whole
some Ogden was to supply the preach-
er's deficiency. Let the Journal por-
tray the moral evils and thus hit
the protected institutions from an.
other side. Show that the preacher
didn't tell half of the horrible story
Would not tnat have been the manlier
attitude for paper which loves
righteousness above gold or silver?
so. | come now to the second ar
gument, | frankly confess l did not
look for this one in the horizonless
west. One gains the impression, per-
maps too readily, that the formal pro-
fesSion Of religion counts for nothing
at all in the west The west is sup
posed to estimate a man by his life,
by the honesty of his motives and
purposes. But here in the great, broad
demned because in my address there
was not one single. tiny reference to
Deity and because the sacred name
of God Almighty was not mentionea.
Tell me this: If | had simply men
toned Gods name, am to understand
that the address would have met with
the unqualified approval of the Jour-
nal? That matter could be most easily
adjusted.
Jesus did not lay much emphasis
upon that kind of religion. OF course,
He may not have known what He was
about He did not teach, so far as
know, that loyalty TO the things OF
God consisted in the loud and con-
slant reiteration of the sacred name
of God Almighty But perhaps the
Journal has inside information.
Il thought we had marched out OF
the ancient regime. The way has been
hot and dusty. / thought that here In
the west Christianity was something
more tnan repeating the name. For
have we not said more than once:
"'Poor, sad humanity.
Through all the dust and heat,
Turns back with bleeding feet
BY the weary road 1t came,
Unto the simple thought
BY the great Master taught,
And that remaineth still:
Not ne that repeateth the name.
But he that doeth the Will?
"3 The third argument In this mar
yelous array Is rather confusing. IL
maintains that mo sane person VIII
attempt to defend gambling or any OF
it's kindred evils To which heartily
agree. But insanity follows hard upon
the heels of sanity, for the next sen
tence is a pitifu1 plea to let the poilce
regulate gambling, which we are
bound to have These words are put
into the mouth Of the majority: But
it is a defense of gambling.
"The vilest community in the world
if it thought good laws would insure
good name, would gladly pass those
laws TO pull the wool over the eyes OF
the Puritanical 1t could then wallow
in its debauchery. But 1t would De
high-minded.
But they are bound 10
have It," That seems to bear
out the very point l am trying TO
make. If the majority" in Ogden is
bound" to have gambling, why object
so strenuosuly to the leealizing or
II?
l can't see why we are any more
high minded and virtuous simply be-
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