The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-02
ARE BOYS SAFE
IN SALT LAKE?
DR.. Albert Buxton Says Police
on State Street Close Eyes
to DiSgraceful Conditions.
TRIVIAL 0FFENSEs NOTICED
TALKS OF JUVENILE COURT AND
NEW POLICE CHIEF.

Conditions in Salt Lake relative to the
welfare of young boys were soundIy crit
icised last night in a sermon at the Cen
trail Christian church by DR.. Albert Bux-
ton, pastor of the church. The minister
took for his subject. lis Tom Safe in
Salt Lake?"
The text was from 2 sam. xviii. %.
rs rs Ihe Young man Absalom safer and
Dr. Buxton said in part: These words
or King David were the genuine cry of an
honest fathers grief-but the fault was
IN the tardy awakening. King David
should nave been concerned with the
growing boy. He was more anxious about
his wives and pleasure or even his kingly
duties than about his boy. The boy
should be the paramount question in
every kingdom.
AN old Greek city sent annually fifty
lads and fifty maidens to feed the Min
ataur-in exchange for civic safety The
lads and maidens should have been the
real concern-their safety was above that
of commerce.
Supreme Issue Is Youth.
"Our nation has for its paramount is
sue questions of finance, of coinage, Of
taxation. of tariff These are secondary.
The supreme issue is the growing virtue
of youth. We might pitch all our coin
into the Atlantic, and If we were a sturdy
nation of integrity in five years we would
again be the richest nation on earth. Tom
homely country virtues, and led by am
bition to seek Salt Lake City. As a clerk
in the store of a deacon, he the first
morning was instructed not to sell a CT
gar for its honest value, but TO shake
dice with the customer-a common and
little fault in the eyes of the careless,
but a practice that advertised through
the mails would be indicted by an United
States grand jury as a felony. Another
church member showed Tom how instead
Of selling his watch for its honest value
of so, to rattle 1t off for $50. a cheap
imitation of the Louisiana lottery, that
the United States government has spent
years to suppress.
EASY is the descent to hell sung
Virgil, and Tom found it so. From the
one social glass of beer, offered him in
the house of a friend, he grew to his
many glasses and at last ended his ca
reer in a crime in a gambling hell"
Raps State Street Conditions.
DR.. Buxton said that a policeman would
go three blocks to arrest man for driv-
ing too fast, but in the shadows of State
street every five minutes while he was
streetward while twenty women, between
First and Third South streets. were coax
ing twenty boys into their rooms of ruin
1.-THE only salvation for Tom is that
the paramount issue, said the speaker
Dr. Buxton commended certain improve
ments in this line. While he was proud
of our promised skyscrapers, and miles OF
pavement smooth as glass, yet his chief
pride of the last fortnight was the solicit
tude of the new chief of police in the
safety of the boys. he declared. The
speaker also referred to the growing safe
guard of the Juvenile court, stating that
he believed that its chief question was
not what political party should control it,
but that 1t should, however controlled
save the boys.