The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-02-04

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+ that this is in the nature of higl
license, when such places ought t.
n be suppressed. But is it possible
i to abolish the evils complained
OFF Experience in large cite,
says, emphatically, no. Wha
5 can be done then except to restrain
them within as limited and decent
bounds as is practicable.
The small fines that have been
periodically inflicted upon the
keepers and resorters to the places
referred to, have encouraged the es-
adjustment and continuance of
low dives and disreputable haunts,
where their very cheapness has at
traCted persons who would not be
able to crowd into other places.
The cheap gambling hellsl catch
youths with small means and
laborers going from their work
who have contracted the gambling
fever, and they are stripped of
their little earnings, thus bringing
trouble and distress to families and
friends. A big fine call it license
if you choose, will have the effect
Of closing out these worst places,
and combining the evil to narrower
bounds.
Such resorts are thesscause of the
greatest outlay for police service,
and if they cannot be entirely put
down, should be made to furnish,
to the city, the bulk of the means
necessary to protect the public
from the evils that are caused bv /
their presence and that proceed |
from their influence. That, 1--WE I'M
derstand, is the position taken i.by
the Mayor. 1t is shared by ex
perienced officials in most Of the
cities i'll both hemispheres.
We are aware that many very
good people think such places
should be broken up They regard
all such measures as we have men
TONED as dallying with and palliat-
ing wicFedness and corruption.
They have no patience with any
hing but smashing such evils and
endeavoring to eradicate them en-
irely. But they do not take into CON
'lderation the fact, that the people
whom they desire to be driven forth i,
'annot be smashed nor put out of '
Existence. They must go some ;
where, and if they are thrust out of
ertain localities, will scatter
round III more respectable neigh
'orhoods, and become much r
'reater menace and nuisance than $
YER
When officers are brought face to :
ace with these matters, they are :
to act according to means 7
nd possibilities. They become +
no matter how earn g
silly they may desire to do some
ling effectual i'll the way of sup )
resslng evils that confront them. q =
llgh license for the manufacturer 9
nd sale of intoxicants has been T
'und the best manner of regulating y
al restraining the liquor traffic B
here prohibition is impracticable. T
On the same principle high fines =
r keeping the resorts alluded to M
as been found the wisest method, TT
mere they cannot be suppressed,
cause it keeps them within the =,
FUNDS of kind of order, and an Q
ltward appearance Of decency that
less lntolerable than the riot, and 81 81
utality, and violence that char OF
- =, Al
terize the low resorts that small G;
les and the tacit permission of p,
e authorities encourage. II
II the police will faithfully carry =.
1t the policy of the Mayor, and
e City Council will support him AS
his efforts to preserve the peace All
d order of his municipality they In
ii gain the appreciation of law A.
ldlng people, and will cleanse An
= city of some of its worst dis =.
lers. Let the ordinances be en- Tn Tn
-ced, firmly but wisely and
cording to the spirit and mean
3 thereofl-Deseret News.