The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-15
MRS. CoRBETTs FIGHT.
Woman Tells Result of Crusade
Against Vice.

/ Woman Tells Result Of Crusade
Against Vice.
To The Salt Lake Herald:
As more or less publicity, through the
/ daily papers, has been given my efforts
| to close gambling houses in ogden, and
as up 20 the present no results have
/ beel obtained, / ask space in your
| valuable paper to inform the people in
Ogden OF the conditions as 1 have
found them.
= Since starting what has been termed
a crusade on gambling" / have met
with some strange experiences. Upon
learning that my husband through
| losses at gambling, was hOpeiessly in
volved In debt, ] visited an attorney
to learn that legally 1 could not re-
cover damages, but was told that the
mayor could do more for me than any
one. Never having met Mr.. Glasmann.
I FASTENED TO his office, hopeful that in
him / might find a friend. Relating
my trouble to him. I was told that if
my husband had lost his money in an
open gambling house and by fair
means. he could do nothing at recover
ing il for me, as he had an agreement
with the gamblers whereby If they kept
open places and played fair they could
gamble. But that If I could prove 10
him that this money had been lost be-
mind locked doors. or by unfair means,
he would make them return IT,
AT this time Mr.. Glasmann appeared
very anxious to get proof that gam
bling was going on behind locked
doors in the saloon owned by one ]. 7.
Linehan. as he said he had been re-
fusing for four months to pay his fine.
To help the mayor out j produced two
men, who stated 20 him that between
Jan. I and Jan. 10 they had lost money
in Linehan's place. Calling upon the
mayor soon after this. / was told that
1 would have to produce someone who
had actually played with Linehan.
/ then appealed 10 the prosecuting at
torney, who gave me no encourage
ment, Notwithstanding the fact that
there exists a statute making gambling
a misdemeanOr. But after few weeks
Of persistent effort I was permitted to
swear TO a complaint against a num-
Der of gambling houses.
The matter has already resulted in
three pOstponements, with a hearing
set for March is. ] have been told that
this effort TO suppress gambling would
be unsuccessful, as i would receive no
support from the present city admins
tration III would be a good thing for
the people of Ogden TO investigate the
methods of our city government If
gamblers are controlling this city, i'm
defiance OF state laws and city ordi-
nances, we ought to know it. Saloons
violate the Sunday closing ordinances
with impunity
Why don't the good people of Ogden
demand that public officers do their
duties? Where are the preachers who
pray at least twice a week for the de-
structiOn of sin? Are they lending a
hand or raising their voices to this end?
Which is greater, the sin of commits
sion or of omission Where are the
fathers and mothers who are raising
boys? is this subject of no interest to
them2
Do parents not know that their boys
are being educated 10 gamble by that
innocent looking and worst of all de-
vices. the slot machine and that there
is a state statute and city ordinance
against them? Where are the wives
Of men who gamble nearly their whole
earnings away? And [ know of such
husbands
Where is the w. c.. y. T., whose
mission Is the suppression of vice and
the enforcement of law and order?
Again I ask, should not the good people
of Ogden investigate the methods OF
our city government
Is there one ready to lend a helping
hand by doing something's
MRS. W.. CORBETT.