Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-23

only because Of my interest In the
juvenile court, which Brown is cheap
ening and degrading by the false state
ments he Is making and the spectacu-
lar horse play he is bringing into 1t.
that take this action.
SOME SEVERE CHARGES.
I accuse him Of deliberately and will
fully trying TO create the Impression
that the laws he tells about in his lee
lures originated with him in Utah, and
that the system of administrative work
OF the Denver Juvenile court likewise
mad a similar origin. He has so care
fully and studiously initiated the lee
lures he has heard me deliver that even
some OF the stories he has heard me
tell of my experience, he has brazenly
and falsely attributed to himself. with
out even the slightest intimatlon of the
fact, though he had spent long hours In
my personal company hearing these
things. He has never given, so far as
can learn, even a suggestion that
the material and substantial parts of
the laws he seeks in his lectures to Gre
ate the impression that he alone is re-
sponsible for. originated among lawyers
in Denver and Chicago.
A FEW FALSEHooDs.
He gives credence to the statements
published In circular Issued by him
that the salt Lake juvenile court was
the first separate juvenile court In this
country. He knows this is a lie. He
knows that Judge Stubbs of Indianapo-
lis, Ind, and Judge Helnser of Balti-
more (and ] think some others) were
Judges of such a separate court be-
tore Brown was ever heard OF. He
knows that such separate court had
not half the power as court with gem
eral jurisdiction like that In Denver and
Chicago. He tells his audiences that
he sent half the parents In
his court in certain years to
jail. when he knows that the
supreme court OF Utah held that he
hadn't any right In this great juvenile
court OF his, to send anybody to Jail.
ANY man who will boast of doing such
things when he has no right TO and
probably did not. is absolutely ineom-
petent to occupy such position, and
! do not wonder that the Salt Lake
court became legally involved. and the
contributory delinquent law which he
boldly copies from the state of Colo
RADIO, as | had written IL with my own
hand years before. was declared I'M
constitutional in your state.
IGNORANT AND INCOMPETENT.
This was because OF the Ignorant
and incompetent manner In which /.
has been put in by Brown and given
as his own to the discredit and be-
Hitting of one who had helped him.
repeatedly told him that his court had
no right to try parents or adults a.
had the juvenile court of Denver, be-
cause OF the bungling way In which
he had copied our law. Brown knows
we'll enough II he wanted to tell the
truth that the court he presided over
in Salt Lake was a mere shell. 1t ha.
no power, as did the juvenile court OF
Denver because of its general cham
Gerry and criminal law powers), to reach
the causes of crime, and all on eartf
that Brown ever could do In his court
which he was ''called from Chicago Il
Utah to create Gas per his circular)
was to try children.
TO TRY CHILDREN.
1t would have been a thousand times
better for the cause of the children,
had court of general Jurisdiction with
power to punish those who violate laws
for the protection OF children, been the
juvenile court In Salt Lake. and thai
which Brown presided over not beer
In existence, and no one knew Thu.
better than Brown, for he was power.
less as juvenile judge to do any of thu
had done for years. There were feat.
ures we in Chicago and Denver who
had been In the Juvenile court from
its inception desired TO incorporate IN
a model juvenile court, and Brown got
every one of these features from thes,
| people and not In one single instance
| so far as | can find has he acknowl.
| edged the fact. On the contrary he
tells in his lecture and srculars thai
| he did these things that others had
| suggested for years before he was ever
| thought OF. And after the scoring tn,
supreme court Of Utah gave Brown
as man totally UNIT to preside ovei
such tribunal. able lawyers In utaf
came to the rescue of the court and go
| through a new court law that can real
| ly do something and which | under
| stand Brown has never been III,
| Judge of. although he has claimeg
| just the contrary and brazenlN
advertises himself now as the Judge
and says you have given him leave OF
absence to lecture.
PLAGARIZED EXPERIENCES.
| One OF the best stories IN my lee
\ lures Furnished climax of an eXper
! ience of mine with the police who ar
| rested boys FOR stealing bicycles ant
! with much effectiveness | told how
! said to the policeman who opposed M
! methods OF iealing with the boy. ina
| he was trying TO recover the wheels
| and we were trying TO recover th'
| boys. Brown had read this IN our re-
ports and heard the effectiveness with
| which II was used in my lectures and
| imagine my surprise TO And II publish
| ed In reports 81 his lectures with othel
similar experiences and limitations no
| all quite so brazen. hut so similar tina
was openly accused after one OF my
/ lectures OF copylng Brown. news