Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-01
THOU SHALT NOT SQUEAL."
That is Command it Would Give
Beneath Its Breath so All
Could Run on Quiet.
Grand Stand Play in Surimoning
Ncwspapermcn Into Court 10 Tell
Police What They Should Know.
MAKE THE DOORS SEEM SHUT,

An awful howl, mad organs yowl,
Who dares turn on the light2'
The game OF course, is ours perforce,
We play It strong at night.
It's not good taste 10 thus us paste
When we have said so much.
About high inks and gamblers chinks
And men who do the touch
our own big boss may meet a loss,
That We can not Well mend,
And so we fear, our bright career,
or bosslnR soon win end
Unless We stand with hand In hand
And make the doors seem shut.
Zen with the price. wen cut no ice;
There1l be no ice to cut.
Wen drive the gaff, in Herald staff,
And ask them what they mean.
Wen swat the News" while we take
booze,
And gamble on the green
For these big duffs have called our
bluffs
And put Is in a plight
They've shown us where the tigers lair
was not kept out Of sight
Then into court wen them disport
Wen ask EN- what they know.
While IN the chair wen make EN-
swear,
About the poor mans dough
nav bhulhAfIH Efls NNltf NffAllhlc SWEAT
And back to work do go.
Our reps at stake. In old Salt Lake.
They must not treat us So
mighty wall IS going up and down
the surface of tho city from the organ
Of the Tenderlon. The turning on of
the searchlight IN the gambling house
cases has caused II TO roar and per-
spire nightly Great is It's perturbation
over the failure Of the public to believe
that games Of chance had all been
closed IN Salt Lake.
And so IT parades Itself with tattered
vestments, issuing commands right and
| left and assuming a virtue IL has not.
| TO all It's vasssls Il says Thou shalt
not squeal.' To squeal under the pres
ent administration Is to commit trea-
son. But there are members In the
police department that it will not be
able To handle as easily as It might
suspect; members who will not sneeze
every time It takes snuff. and who can
tell gambling house from a hose wag-
on, even though they dare not raid II.
IN the absence Of knowledge as to
whether 1t is on the favored or UNI
favored list.
BLINDS UP. BLINDS DOWN.
Last night the blinds were drawn
over the windows OF some houses that
had been previously running. In others
they were as high as ever. At the
TINA no
beats on the outside as the revelry
went on within, The justification for
non-actlon is that they didn't know
what was transpiring inside,
WANT PRESS TO DO 1T ALL.
BY the way. very brilliant idea took
possession Of the prosecution yesterday
afternoon. The police had said, ''Ws
have arrested 2S men. They were
caught red-handed but We have got to
have the proof. We saw them at thu
tables, but we can't tell whether they
are guilty or not. Now, the newspaper
men were not there, but they can prob
ably tell anyhow. Therefore we VIII
subpoena a bunch OF them and bring
them into court"
Accordingly summonses were Issued
for four members OF the Herald stan
Mr.. lgleheart, general manager; Mr..
Mckay, managing editor; Nr. Palmer.
city editor and Mr.. Roberts, po,ica
court reporter From this II Will be
seen that the police propose not only
TO have the law and order newspapers
furnish the Information that gambling
houses are running but that they In
tend that the press shall convict their
proprietors and inmates as we'll In
short, to have them give the news and
DO police duty. too, 1t js a brilliant
idea and makes It possible for the po-
lice 10 have nothing 20 do but draw
their salary
This afternoon the newspapsrmen in
question are TO appear In court 10 teS-
tify II the prosecution does not repent
It's action and excuse them or postpones
the cases.
DAILY LET EN- GO
Yesterday afternoon several Of tho
crowd that WAS gathered in the night
before were told to leave the city sem
tence being suspended. Besides bail was
reduced IN each case. and the accused
permitted 10 go on the deliberate mo-
ton Of Prosecutor Patrick Jonathan
DAILY And the records so show.