The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13
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Some Facts Regarding the Police
Department.
CRIME AND VICE REENCoURAGED
How the Pledge Fer Peace, Quiet aud Good
Order Was No Sooner Made
| Than Broken,

Y. y. GooQWln's speech OF Tue evening pre-
vious is reported as follows:
he said if the promises of the Liberal party
were not carried out in the acts of the Liberal
officials he would be called liar for all time to
come.
The Tribune. February %, 1890, said edi-
torially that:
campaign cry that's not made in good faith
is always boomerang; y party that will not
redeem its pledges is fraud and q delusion.
Let me measure Mr.. Goodwin'o veracity
and the worth of the Liberal party by their
own standards, and then ask every voter
who has no hand on the Liberal machine to
learn and repeat these lines when discus
sing the Liberal party:
Their friendship is a lurking snare.
Their honor but an idle breath;
Their smile. the smile that traitors wear,
Their love is hate, their life is death.
The Tribune said January 16 1890: I'VE
expect the marshalship under Mr.. Young's
direction will amount to revolution for
good" Mr.. Young said February 6, 1890:
81 promise better regime under Liberal
rule than ever was possible under Mormon
rule" (See Tribune next day. The Liberal
platform said: "We pledge ourselves to
peace, quiet and good order"
A week or two after the election the
houses of "gilt frame" were raided and
four frail females were fined. The Tribune
had an editorial on the matter to show what
this meant for good morals. Before the
end of the year however, all these promises
had been forgotten and so intolerable had
the infamy become that
AN INDIGNATION MEETING
was held in a church by a considerable
number Of religious Liberals against the
powers that tolerated it. The meeting,
however, fell into the hands of politicians
who were pining for free speech CD and
they partially strangled the indignation.
know these same people have forgotten
their righteous indignation so want to re
fresh their memories with few choice
figures pertaining to the city's morals and
its police. The following information
on gambling houses must be of interest to
DR.. lift and others, so ask space in The
HERALD to repubiish it here.
Speaking of 'Festiye Sports" the Trib-
une says, August II, 1891:
Well, that is the story, but recent events
prove that the same old gang are at work. and
reports heard on the sly are to the effect that
business was never so prosperous as it is now.
so
Tribune August 49, 1891: Several Of the kid
ney worked the racket on Main street almost
under the nose of bluecoat, but in the absence
of orders the lowly miniou Of the law could do
nothing. Speaking OF Main street reminds t he
Heard on the Sly man that two re-thing
establishments are sad to be running in full
blast on that thoroughfare, thus increasing the
number of joints to FIVE.
4*s
These gentry travel in droves.
So
There is nothing strange about these yarns
They are founded on facts. They cannot be
successfully refuted.
1t is also said that several Chinese dens IL
| Commercial street and Plum alley are night,
frequented by those who find delight IN "hittfn,
the pipe" among them being number Of tn,
gentler sex, who are abject slaves OF the ex
tract of the poppy.
Tribune, AugzSt17. 1921. The bunko boys ar,
not the only ones who openly violate the law
The square gambling houses are supposed to
| turn up the box at midnight Saturday nights
Orders have been issued to them that thi
should be done, but the fact remains that yes
terday morning just as old Sol smiled dow
upon the good people OF Zion, seventy-six wear,
gamblers emerged from one house on Mai
street and over forty from another on Eas
| Second South street.
Tribune September 3, 1921. also saw q ma,
yesterday whose position is such as to brinr
him whole lot of information on this subject
He said that gamblers have admitted to hi1
that certain men on the police force regularl
come to them for a Joan which is never re
paid, and is never expected to be. Then som
of them give UP % per cent. OF the business
to the cops. Others pay S25 per week This
for the regular business. For running afte
midnight Saturday nights they pay On add
tioral hundred dollars per quarter.
Can these stories BIO true? Well, they com
from policemen and from business men who's
word is unassailable. No official investigation
is needed to determine the existence of tina
which stinks under our nostrils every hour {
the day and night.
Tribune. August Is, lS9l-It Is time to call
halt when the lairs are advertised by f1auntin
signs. when the windows of the bells are ken
wide open in order to attract the unwar
sucker, ard when steerers throng the streets 1
search of gulls.
Tribune, August 90 lsol-In the meantime tn
bunco Joints are running wide open, unsophi:
ticated strangers are robbed, and the goose
the steerer hangs high.
The sleuths sleep on.
II you are not blind to your surroundins
you know that John NJ. Young can call an,
where from seventy-fve to $50 'nymphs
from
THE HOUSES OF "GILT FRAME"
into the police headquarters on twent
minutes notice. At the last annual raid {
tax levy there were called up sixty-four i
one subdivision, and the tax Ievie
amounted to s1,sS5. (Trtbttne, August
1911
Did it ever occur to you that it must re
quire chief of police with an lmmens
amount of ingenuity to arrest 90 sixty
four of these sirens in single nigi
without running onto single devotees
Have you ever contemplated the iarg,
ness of heart exercised by our chief in tn
regard, to avoid making it unsafe fl
patrons in these dens, and thereby avo
decreasing the profit of this ''quiet, pea,
and good order'' businessi
AS to prostitution, the Tribune says Ser
TENDER 4, 1891:
AS far as G Heard on the Sly" NAM can a