The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-22
ENFORCE LAW UPON ALL


The organ of the sentiment that de-
mandS that the laws against a certain
form of sexual vice shall not be en-
forced, is extremely virulent and frothy
in its demand that the laws against a
certain other form Of sexual vice shall
be rigidly enforced Female prosti-
tutes must be dealt with in the harsh
est possible manner. but male prosti
tutes, if they plead religious cxcmp-
ton, must not be interfered with at
all.
We submit that that sort of a prop
ositlon can hardly commend itself to
a virtuous and intelligent public, This
sort of drawing the line, and saying
that the law must be enforced upon the
one side aud not upon the other, cannot
be admitted
The Tribune stands for the enforce.
ment Of the law on both sides. The
church organ stands for the enforce
ment of the law on one side only, And
the church organ has represented, and
continues TO represent, the base side
which is in numerical control in this
State, but which prostitutes that con
troll TO the service Of the lusts of men.
We demand tho application of the law
in both cases; and that is the only sort
Of demand that the public officials can
in the least take into account,
in the meantime, VIC direct distinct
attention to the attitude of the church
organ, which so ferociously bcratcs the
foulness Of the female sex and excuses
The kindred fouIness of the male sex.
AS we noted some days ago, the stress
of pain and anguish caused by the acts
of the leaders of the affairs of the sect
which that organ represents, falls upon
women, and to that showing the present
attitude OF the church organ adds but
one more proof
In another editorial last night the
church organ. said:
The daily apologist for prostitution
takes the view that because polygamy
was practiced in Utah at ono time. there
fore the o-calIed American officials are
justified in not enforcing the laws against
the immoral traffic of the ''stockade'
Such pltiful begging of the ques-
tion! Such puerile evasion and mis-
representation. There is no daily APP
pologist for prostitution unless II IS the
Deseret News, which is consistent and
jealous in the service of the male pros
titutes who fixed polygamy upon the
people of this State. II is not true
that the stress of tho fight is "because
polygamy was practiced in Utah at one
time, " but because il is prscticed, urged
and entered into now by hundreds of
devotees Of the church, under The au-
thority of the purported revelation com
handing il, and is a church sanction, no
matter how much this may be denied.
Neither has any one, unless it is the
church organ itself, justified officials in
not enforcing the laws of this State
against vice and crime wherever it
appears. The Tribune has taken the
stand. uniformly and consistently, for
the enforcement of all thc laws The
church organ demands the enforcement
only of the laws against certain forms
of vice and foulness which appear to
be rivals and kindred of its favorte
vice and foulness. The fact that the
church organ cannot answer without
mis- stating the case, evading, lying, and
| shuffling about in the most utter de-
pravity, is proof of the tight place in
which it finds itself. 1t is pledged for
its favorite forms of vice and crime,
and this disqualifies it from being a
public censor of other vices and crimes,
! especially those so near like its own