The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-23

STILL APOLoGIZINe.
TT is NOT WORTH WHILE for any
L newspaper TO lose it's temper over
any discussion. The newspaper that
cannot control it's passion is so often led
into making absurd mlsstatements that
people soon begin to doubt everything
it says. Many a reputation for ster-
ling integrity has been sacrificed by
this failing. The Herald's West Temple
street contemporary furnishes the lat
est example. Yesterday morning it
said:
After taking a day or two OF % catch
their breath. the mahguers OF this city
who would UersuadC the people of THIS
mountain region that this Is n laWless
place. "a dangerous city 10 WISH, nave
renewed thtlr attack. There rs not The
ghost of sact to base their assaults
upon. The whole attack. so far as we
can see. is az ugsplCaGic political game
its animus Is patent in the charges OF
bad faith against the Republican CITY
administration The fact TINT this pub
Hs outcrv comes exclusively from Demo
cratic sources clincheS the proposition
that this. outcry Is 2 mere poiii,icail
while back Sunday liquor selling was
omen. notorious. 10 is not so now. II
there is any IT, Dis disguised, concealed,
the flagrant notoriety OF it mas been
banished. As 20 the charges about
gambling. there is not the slightest evl-
d.frc that there has been any increase;
certainly there is no notOrtety ABOUT. u;
save the hue and cry made Tor pchucdi
purposes.
Every SsIt I.aker who is even casual
ly FAMILIAR with municipal affairs
knows that there isu' one solitary word
of truth I'm the above quotation. A
short time ago sunday liquor selling
was not opeu ana notorious. Two
weeks before the last city election
every whisky shop in salt Lake was
closed on SUNDAY. This condition OF
affairs existed until about three weeks
ego. Then a tip was passed around
that the law might be Violated with
impunity. 1t was violated. Yesterday
there wasn't a single saloon i'm Salt
Lake that wasn't selling liquor without
the slightest pretense at cOncealment,
if its proprietor desired to do 50.
Rear and side doors throughout the
business district were wide open. Po-
li-emen patrouing their beats saw men
going ia and coming out. They knew
aa wen as they knew the sun shone
that the law was being violated; they
knew that. 10 enforce the law. it was
only necessary 90 notify the proprietors
that they. would be arrested il they
continued their unlawful practice No
such notice was given. Was the sun
day saloon law openly and VIGOROUSLY
violated Yesterday The Herald refers
its contemporary TO any man who
walked on Main or Second South streets
yesterday afternoon.
As to gambling. A few weeks ago
Mayor Thompson held up his hands TO
high heaven and protested that SO long
as inharmony existed between him and
Mr. Hilton. then chief Of police, the
city would be at the mercy of all law
breakers. At that time not a single
public gambling house was open IN the
city. Very well. Mayor Thompson
was taken at his word. Hilton re-
signed and Paul was appointed in his
place. Almost Immediately gambling
houses were opened. They soon be-
came so numerous and so diffused that
Chief Paul ordered them closed. The
order was promptly Obeyed, for your
gambler is a timorous Individual who
doesn't ike the glare Of the search
light.
Public gambling was suppressed alb
solutely for a Jew weeks. Within the
last five or six days II has been re-
sumed with more brazeu openneSs than
ever. Saturday night Chief Paul after
protesting vigorously his Ignorance OF
plain facts. sent word, to the gamblers
that they must close their houses. 1t
was taken FOR granted by both gam
blers and people that the order would
be- IN fun force and effect for few
weeks at least. Yesterday &c devel-
oped that the chief only meant that
the gamblers should not break the
Sabbath. What a mOckery. II reminds
one Of the man who was arrested III
Texas for misunderstanding because
ne killed a man OF Sunday.
Chief Paul betrayed his knowledge
Of law breaking 10y his message TO the
offenders just by way of showing
their contempt Tor him. at least one.
and possibly other. gambling houses
on Commercial street were open YES
terday in tuu blast. And still the Daily
Apology of West Temple street says
it's chief of police doesn't know what
he is talking about. that there is not
the slightest evidence that there has
been any increase in gambling.
tt is hardly necessary for The Her
aid to reply TO the charge that its at
tack on law-breaking is inspired by
politics. Its West Temple street con-
temporary may be made of such petty
stun, but The Herald is not. If the
Democrats we're in power. or. rather
81 the Democrats had turned the city
over to tie ssloonkeepers and the gam
biers, The Herald would denounce them
with all the vigor it could command
In the meanwhile the Tribune is de
sewing nobody. not even itself. with its
Pharisaical pleadings.