Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-16
ATHENS demand \ !.
JAW ENFORCEMENT
The Remedyis at Hand Eal't' and q q Off til
Gals Are Only Asked to q
Do Their Duty.
lG MASS MEETING y.
ME Evil OF the stoclSadc is Pointed
out and Will be Taken to
Polls If Necessary. q

s,t,e mass meeting last evening at the
q rsfteenth ward chapel. held to protest
.aainst the "stoclkade, was attended
n about 400 repre- sentative citizens.
tbe majority was from the west side.
III some were noticed In the crowd
n ,,hose homes are east OF Main street.
,rhe principal speakers We're James w
II ire B. f. Grant and Lon j. Haddock,
All ~ whom criticized the mayor and
clty council for permitting the stpc r Z
u odei ID exist after 1t had been proved
mat it is not restricting the vice. The
K speeches met with approval I'M the
meeting as the frequent bursts of APP
r,la.lse from the audience Indicated.
Il Two resolutions, one to the ma VOL and
II citvi council and the other to- the COVER
a nor and attorney-ge general We're adopted
n unanimously by the meeting, requesting
the abolition of the .stockade e.
\ E.gC, Ashton, who was chairman of
the meeting, minis opening speech. said,
among other things. tina t q re 81 stoa II
4 ade' does not stockade, because al
q thoush the women are alike in the vice
thew are not alike in their tastes and
many will not go in the stockade. From
y the foul nest Of vice, in the stockade,5
4 b,oods may be expected everywhere.
throughout the city and state where
conditions are favorable. He ASSERT
y ed that IL the; traffic is fostered any
\ where 1t will increase everywhere, and
compared 1T to snakegiass In the gar!
den, the roots OF which travel from
tie main root under the surface to res
appear at a distance 1T was out
rageons that public officials should
countenance such things contrary 10
law. The mayor does not shape the
public policy. That Is done in the city
council and tile legislature. Ii Is his
duty to execute the laws, and 1t was
i to- present resolutions to that effect
that the meeting was called. "
WANT Laws ENFORCED.
James w. IRE said that while pros
tuition could not be wiped out, titS could
be made SO hard for those enga ging in
tile Vice that it would be greatly re-l
stticted He compared 1t to theiving,
which does not cease to exist, but is =
lessened, because the laws against IT.
are enforced. That Is what tho people
want with regard to the stockade.
They are asking for an enforcement of /
the laws. n
He also referred with contempt 10
the Shareholders of the Citizens, In
vestment company. who. could receive
such ill-gotten gains, and fired a hot
been seen walking in the company OF
the women He said that the mayor
Il and city council have beer approached
h In vain on the mat tei, and the people
n proposed now to take effective steps
4 to enlist the support Of5the honorable
\ PEOPLE Of the city. They were fighting
not as west tsiders.S but as citizens Of
Salt Lake City without respect to To-
calftyand he assured his hearers that
there are as many of the east side
wllo.are just as indignant on the mat
ter as any of the people on the west
side. $500 g.,
| VICE%HAS INCREASED.
He was chart table enough to believe
that in the first place there might have
been feeling in some quarters that
the stockade might be good thing in
restricting and localzing the traffic,
but in spite of 1t there are more
fallen Women the city than there
mas mas ever been browns the falsity Of
such an assumption.
At this point the chairman stated
+ that was an absolute fact that there I
are twice as many prostitutes in the a
city as there We're before the stockade
opened fS3 s Sss
ats3sN llIlanl Latham said the movement
was purely in the Interest," of morality.
IN, hlley,Would ask the officials to enforce
3 lneslaW which they We're sworn to8do.
X L they would not do 1t then he would
favor making it q political movement.
B. f. GRANT SPEAKS.
BE. Grant was then called for He
SAID In part that prostitution may al
: ways exist, butt il fostered it8is bound
to increase. Many of the women who
run houses of i'll Iepute object to, move
& 2 the stockade and pay tribute to
* i bselle 1ondon. The mayor may have
F i,ad a good motive in asserting to the
Z stockade in the first place, but instead
or centralizing tllejeYiI, trust of PROS
hutton has grown on the west side 4
under the care Nf Salt AXE city, in
Z a =. dltlon to the evils already existing In
other places. Is N i53 ~
B Re assured his hearers that the idea
OIL The builders of the stocliade was to
make money, and in spite of the efforts
( " me sheriff and county commission
els and the humiliation OF private citi-Q
z q, the institution Is growing from
day to day.
\. I; Letters have not only been sent to 4
t.le'lSer. Boise. Butte and San Francisco
t ~ women to come, to Salt Lake, but
Ing t,a.s iIotorious woman. Belle London
mas tss also sent out. personal renresenta-
yves for additional women.
= I, ne touched a sympathetic chord when |
~ sad IT was a, movement of fathers
s.ile trlnthers and asked IL any of those
a l.,ls; had a boy or girl to spare for
s sueh q life He stated that the condi- !
e y, rs such that the people should rise
Z " iiasse and ask Mayor Bransford,