The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-26

helped make sentiment for the juvenile
court; they helped. many Of them. in the
Canyon Crest movement by which a
home in the country has been provided
for some of the boys. They have kept
alive the faith In the power Of love to
win boy. to strengthen him when he
falters. to keep his feet in the right
path when he is too weak to travel the
hard road of life alone.
There have been no more cases where
boys have been imprisoned with har-
dened criminals; the man who used to
sell cigarettes or liquor to boys has
found It improbable as well as danger
Gus; instead Of regarding the law and
courts with terror the hayward young
sters have learned to know the Judge as
a refuge when they are tempted, a
friend when they are I'm trouble, and to
recognize their own obligation to OBJ
serve the law and help enforce it. waiv-
ing any question of moral values, the
court has been the best investment the
city and state ever made-and the re-
turns are due TO the judge who has
managed the court.
Nearly a thousand boys have come
under the Influence OF this man in the
two years he has administered the ju-
venile law; in one case the courts of re-
view have found fault with his action.
and in that case the record did not
show the boys real history because
Judge Brown had kept out of the rec
ord facts that might handicap the lad
i'm after years. Ostensibly citing this
as their reason. the Juvenile court COM
mission has asked the man who has
done this great work, the man in whom
they have constantly expressed conf
dence. to abandon the boys and make
way for some politician who will annex
the boys court to political machine.
Every principal In the public schools
has declared the value 10 the schools of
the court under Judge Browns admin
istration. Every man, woman and
child who has had occasion to see the
powerful agency for the moral uplift-
ing of childhood, of the whole commu-
nifty. Suppose there have been blum
ders, they have been mistakes on the
side of mercy; suppose the Judge has
been tactless at times, do such results
as he has accomplished weigh nothing
I'm the balance?1 Could a man be unfit
for the place and hold with bands OF
steel the loyal affection OF the hundreds
of boys who have been in his court and
met him in his work outside the court?
Suppose his success has gained the
envy Of others. did any man ever do
good successfully and fail to be the
target Of jealousy and abuse and mis-
representation?
What is the purpose of the systematic
effort to discredit the man and his
work. anyway? To crafty the resent
ment Of the malicious, to weaken the
power Of the court. to affect a political
situation and finally TO provide a job for
some man utterly incompetent to win
boys and direct them to the light.
The Herald believes Judge Brown
was right when he refused to make II
easy for his enemies and the politicians
to displace him. 1t believes he and his
friends should compel the men back of
this movement to show their hands and
take the discredit they will have earned
if they succeed in their attempt to place
a political coterie in control Of the chill
dren of the community. 1t believes.
further, that the men and women who
know Judge Browns work-and they
are legion-should let the Juvenile court
commission. the mayor, the chief of
police. the. superintendent of schools,
the city council, know exactly what the
public thinks OF the situation.
Even a politician has some regard
for opinion when Il reaches him; and
the politicians of~this city would hest
tate a long while in the contamination
of this plot If they knew how many
people despise it.