The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-20
REPUBLICAN, RED-LIGHTERS

htF UDLlCAN' RGD-LlGHIGhos
The Tribune the other day had a
showing of the underworld in Ogden
which has attracted the attention OF
the State Journal of that city. Under
the heading of :An Unpleasant Pic
| ture' our Ogden contemporary has the
following EDITORIAL
That was a dIsagreeable picture OF Og-
den's underworld reprinted In the state
Journal yesterday from The Salt Lake
Tribune. The conditions depicted are 1T
Tie 10 the credit OF this city OF course,
II VIII be easy TO brush the matter aside
by saying that this is all Tribune talk
put forward al this time Tor political pur-
poses; but this win not suffice, The fact
sun remains that the conditions sur
rounding the red light district In this city
are a shame demanding the attention OF
the authorities. They cry aloud for re-
form.
In this connection we again call the
attention OF Governor Cutler to his neg
lect of duty with respect TO the juno.
tiou City. The Governor began his
Summing operations here by visit to
hall of amusement patronized by the
Greeks of this place, and came away
making a lurid report about it which
was at once misleading and unjust, The
hall was not the sort Of thing that he
reported it to be at all Then the
Governor did some Summing in Salt
Lake s underworld with a view OF try
ing to make point against the Ameri-
can party, and setting the sheriff 10
work IN this city attending to things
not in his line Of business. We there
upon called the Governors attention to
the fact that he was Governor of the
whole State and not alone OF Salt Lake
City, and that it was clearly his duty,
lndsmuch as he had undertaken this
slum work, 10 do the same for Ogden
that he had done for Salt Lake SO far
as we have observed or heard, however,
the Governor has not yet performed
that service for Ogden, and it is yet
before him. We trust that he will not
fail TO render Ogden the same service
that he rendered to Salt Lake, and that
he will do so before election. Because
his efforts In this line seem TO be not
moral, but political; and unless he acts
before election the political end he has
in view will not be reached
Again, the Governor was called upon
by the American club to proceed TO the
Of the incorporation granted
under State authority to the company
alleged TO be putting in the red-light
district on the west side of this city
He refused to act, but took another
tack which had nothing whatever TO do
with it, by directing the sheriff to in
terfere in the police matters of this city
by way of scattering the streetwalkers |
and some Of the denizens of Commercial |
street who inbabit houses rented to |
them, presumably, by Gentiles, leaving |
the inmates of Mormou.owned bagnios |
This service the sheriff has |
rendered; to some extent the effect of |
MS action being, of course, TO scatter
hose people around town so that
eventually they will drift to the So
salled red-Gght district and lodge in the
louses which the State incorporated
company has built, having nowhere else
q 90. The county. therefore, will.
through the efforts Of the sheriff,
eventually aid the State-incorporatcd
company 10 fill up It's cribs built by
he company which exists under the nu-
hority of the State, in the so-called red
ight district. And thus the "Rcpub-
lean" county government is made TO
work. in harmony with the Republi.
am State government, and the State
fills its incorporated com
,any's houses through the aid of the
ounty government.
AS long as this sort of thing is not
ntertered with by law, the TWO Re-
ublican units work together; first of
II, by the State Incorporating the com.
any TO build the cribs, and the county
overnment routing the den1i.monde to
ther parts of the city so that eyentu.
lly they Will be driven down TO the
ribs of the State incorporation. And
II the time Governor Cutler undertakes
0 pose as one who is doing service for
he cause of morality and deccpcy in
alt Lake while allowing that vile pro.
to be worked out. and while,
5 Governor. he is ignoring far moro
GcnSivc form OF the underworld in Op
on than has ever been developed il
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