Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18

Should Come to Chicago He wanted
to create n sensation and sell his book
Stead came here from London. If there
is n more vicious, wicked and sensual
city In the world than London | do not
know II. | see Stead has now attacked
New York In the same way as he at
tackled Chicago"
CHICAGO NOT a wide OPEN
CITY"
"And just here" remarked the young
mayor emphatically, 81 want to say
that Chicago has been misrepresented
and misunderstood. 1t is not the wide
open city that many outsiders sup
pose. BY this mean that 1T Is not at all
bad morally for a city of It's size. You
can search this town over and you will
not find Il faro bank or n roulette
wheel at work in It. There is no public
gambling of any kind going on. | have
the city carefully watched. and | know
1t. There may be some games of poker
and craps in the poorer quarters that
we can't prevent, but as to gambling on
a large scale that does not and shall
not exist"
DON'T WANT DIR. PARKHURST.
How about the DIR. Parkhurst move
ment and matters of that kind"
I'VE have but little vice of that sort
for city of our size, and such MS there
is is kept in the background. I don't
believe in movements like that inau-
gurated by DIR. Parkhurst and his
crowd in their attempts to reform the
municipal government. Such methods
are not effective, and think they are
degrading. / don't believe in turning
our policemen into set of spies. 1t is
bad policy all around"
"If you don't know what is going on
how can you reform such evils as ex-
ist?"
If we have to get our knowledge of
I.xrG fYsr ft,rv Al
fer to have the evils remain rather
than to do so.' said the mayor. 81 think
the work can be done in other ways
"And besides" Mayor Harrison con-
tinued, Il am not n reformer. I think
the world is fairly good as it is. l
want It to be better. of course, but l
don't think mans whole nature will be
revolutionized during my term of
Office
CHICAGO AND IT'S "BOODLE"
COUNCIL.
How about the boodlers in the city
councils? 1t is said Chicago has a lot
of such councilmen."
81 don't believe she has more than
some other cities. / see Philadelphia,
which poses as the city of brotherly
love and perpetual piety. has lately had
n scandal about sale of its gas fran
chise by the city council. ] believ all
of our cities are none too good in this
respect, but / know that Chicago il
improving. Only few years ago there
were not more than five men in the
council who We're not owned in some
way or other by corporations. Now
there are twenty-three, or more than
one-third of the body. who cannot be
bribed. These men stand out for re-
form. 1t Is almost impossible now for
any Doodle bill to go through, as 1t
requires n two-thirds vote to ~ass bills
over my veto"
81 understand one such bill was
passed during your term" said I.
"Yes, 1t was; but I vetoed it and
they could not pass 1t over my veto"
said the mayor, as a determined look
came into his eyes, as much as to say,
land will do It again IL they try"
PENITENTIARY FOR BRIBING.
do you think such bribing OF legis-
lators and councilmen should be pun
ished?"
Eyes, do" was the reply. Not only
the men who take the brides, but those