Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-14
THE FLOOD THREATENS.

The .riquity Which the stockadc3 was
intended to control and to reduce In
magnitude, has been doubled by tho
. x establishment and maintenance of the
81 West side enclosure.
3 When the dsieputa3ole establishments
were located nlainly on Commercial
street, Of this city many people of the
4 best motives were OF the opinion that
such places should be removed from
b the business center to some locality
US over which u stricter watch could be
Z kept, 50 that the evils OF the traffic
Il stern controlof the law.
Such a belief is quite natural, and
the project itself may be feasible Iun-
4 der some circumstances.
:.% But the actual turn which the affair
4 has taken here proves beyond all ques-
tion that the present attempt to mini
q rnize this evil has served only to mag
Nifty and enlarge ii and to create in our
midst 81 gigantic pesthonse OF iniquIty
q almost without parallel for proportions
s and publicity. Y
We here assume that the proposition
was to remove the serpent from where
K ft might seduce MANY without much
publicity to Il place i'll which 1t could
Il less slccessfully lure the young, the
q inexperienced OF, the unwary Into It's
q coils. Yet the result is that where one
4 was more or less secretly enticed be-,
q fore ten are openly and brazenly
4 caught now. The actual effect is ex-.
gactly opposite what the promoters
4 Claim it would be-, VI
Instead OF tnking the women of the
deInirnlonde to- q section reserved for
them. they have been scattered through
Il the residence portions; Instead Of cen
4 Trailing the local evil, It has been
dissefn minated II.
MI The fallen women Of The town were
4 not driyen, or removed to, nor did they
Voluntarily 30 and take up quarters In
the stock<ide; as a. Iule they avoided
the 5pia'ce, and took up stations In other
& localities. But the Citizens Invest
Srnent com any, in order to- fill the
stoclSade brought and are still bringing
Inmates fol' the place from other inter
mountain cities. till now this city reeks
With an unprecedented accumulation
of u class whose presence signifies all
that Is most dangerous and loathsoina
5stnSciVil izatiprl
The very evils which some thought
and possibly still think the rnainten-
/ anceF OF the stockadc might control and
diminish, have been multiplied many
u fold by its presence.
An the real reason is that 1t has be-
{ come q business from which stockhold-
\ ers eY pect large dividends.
Whatever We're the motives or those
who conceiYed the idea Of promoting
Y the stoc de [; whateyer may be the be-
5lfeftof any persons that such an instl-5
I; tuition might be the best way to regu-
N late and minimize the vice which it
represents, the actual outcome mani
4 fest today in this Instance Is that the
Sstockade represents just that much
4 additional prostitution.
sS Let no one he deceived by his, orSany
one else $ specnlations as to whatever
might be the best way of regulating
this evil. Tho present fact, the dem
onstrable condition today, is that the
stockade has. enormously increased and
1T may have doubled, the actual num-
y her Of denizens Of. the underworld in
this fair City. And to double an evil
of such a character and already. of such
reptited magnitude II! this municipality
lis "a consequence that few foresaw,