Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-14

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the matter TO the police. The officer
at the police station answered.. 1T is
10 minutes to- and L do not go on duty
until o'clock.
Again, my wife was robbed of her
purse, and in attempting to locate it 1
accompanied an officer into the ten
derloin district. We passed through
Sdcns Of dope fiends and gamblers. The
officer knew all. these people by name
and was aware OF the unlawful prac-
tlses they were engaged In
INDICTS SALT LAKE CITY.
Theaspeaker indicted the city of Salt
Lake on the following six counts:
& First-Salt Lake stands indicted for
its saloon influence. Three ourths of
the American states have taken a firm
or stand against the saloon debauchery
than our city. No economist today
land Is responsible for the majority of
crimes, pauperism and idiocy. Yet In
our loved city. we grow frantic over
the question of material for pavement.
or sewer extension, and divide parties
over these mcrccnary issues, while no
party darcs to make conscience, or
whisper a conscience that IL may have
vi tiii9 lilc lSSlGH OIL every SlulS
and city. 1t is a side Issue that wo-
men weep widowed tears and children
cry beneath brutal fathers frenzied
fists-their dominant issue is that the
streets be smooth for their gasoline
gigs. to roll their INDECENT occupants
on a. gentle slope to he'll. If the po-
licc chief tries to enforce the slender.
laws already made against intoxcat-
ing debauchery, no political party will
give him solid support. and every po-
sitician admitted to the bar will con-
test for the high honor OF defending
this illegal orgy
'Secund-Salt Lake stands indicted
for allowing the gambler to ply his
trade in ruin and suicide-providel 1t
shall not be 50 conspicuous as to Of
fcnd artistic taste. Nobody may es-
cape the vlgilant officer for riding a
wheel on the sidewalk. Salt Lake
watches these merry lads, and pounces
on them with umerring aim. Yet to-
night the city will be full Of Social
hands''-with possibly a suicide report
tomorrow morning, and the police can
not find them. i saw ten men watch
ing several silver dollars ring in har-
gmony with the click of dice in the lob
by OF a principal hotel. a policeman
Sstrollcd through the circle, but saw only
the calendar on the wall. He was not
z to blame. Hc would have lost his
job had he seen what the others were
watching.
ION MURDER ROW
"Third-Salt Lake stands indicted for
allowing prostitution to faunt its scar
let robe on Murder row, in the exact
center OF trade. Nay. for being part
her in the profits by about u thousand
dollars amonth. 1t salaries one or
more policemen to watch that the muir
sders there be not SO noisy as/to dis
sturb the theater goers nearby; but il
the officer should enforce the state
statute, he would find a suburban beat,
or a farm job.
IA "Fourth-Salt Lake stands indicted
for feeding its wayward young into the
hungry nav of the political monster
When q. little band of anxious parents,
headed by a jealous judge Of juvenile
court--God bless Judge Gowans--aided
by a sane state juvenile court COM
mission, plead for the kind safeguard
ing of hayward innocence, they set
the opportunity for political appoint-
ment and graft for favorte rd-heel
5ers. and while the city politicians
quarrel with the countys politicians
about favorites, and appointing power,
and salaries, the boys slide down to
brothel.
POLITICAL 1RREIIGION.
Fifth salt Lake stands indicted for
political irrelgion. We have n few
politicians here that stand for piety.
God bless them--I wish it We're courte-
Gus to mention names. But the great
gang of politicians--the steerers and
the leaders, would not know where to
did not need votes once a year on the
side Of religion and morality How
many of theScontrolling circle of po-
litcians--how many of the first twenty
could you find in church today? AS
many as you could count on the thumbs
of a one-armed man. Yet in 60 days
their cry will be Ministers vote for us
and morality
"Sixth--Salt Lake stands indicted for
,partizan prostitution. The wayfarer is
liable to be jostled into the mud by
some half-inebriated poiitician--or his
boy be ipveigled into Commercial
street den by the politicians lieuten-.
ant while they talk a humbuggery Of
morality Civic virtue here in Salt
tain Meadow massacre of over half a
century ago, while souls are swept
down today in masses before the perils
of our own age. Civic virtue here
cheers us to fight martinez of straw,
while the protected pick-pocket draws
our purse, or the " pfoCurert gets our
For years after our Civil
war had ceased, willy politicians won
my fathers vote TO their issues of graft,
while they warned him of q south that
had generation laid down their arms.
Il vii! stand in Salt Lake for any true
party OF progress I want to be with
that party that builds tall buildings
lays deep sewers, and paves wide
streets--but they must come to me
with clean hands. They must not.
under the name Of godliness. assail with
public profanity and obscenity my
friend whose political conscience Diff
fers. nor seek my wife's Illegal vote TO
uphold the law They must not weary
my ears with a passing polygamy. while
the hiccough in5theii' voices makes the
tones maudlin. doubt not that am
cent polygamy. still exists among us,
but have not seen q single case-the
red light of Commercial street and the
electric glare Of the stately saloons
glares too bright on my eyes. I say
/ have not a single doubt that polyg-
amy still exists. and Will exist in de-
creasing ratio for a decade or two.
and If the politicians will close the
brothels, and put away their concu-s