The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-01
STATEMENT ISSUED BY BELLE LONDON
BEFORE SHAKING SALT LAKES DUST

| feet. But my hopes met with disap-
pointment Tor l have been grossly ms ms"
treated In this city, ! don't want by THIS
to say that everybody has been unfair
| to me; have met here the best class
| OF people, but also have met the worst
class Of grafters that l have encountered
In my life In any part OF the country, and
this is going some when one takes into
consideration the fact that ] have trnv-
eled great deal and come In contact
with all classes of them. Some OF the
Salt Lake people. that is certain proni-
nent citizens. may be very thankful to
me that through my generosity confine
telling all know and which. II published.
would prove decided sensation and cause
considerable excitement at their expense.
Tho establishment OF the stockade ought
to result, OF course, In the cleaning of
tho city. but this could not very we'll be
accomplished with the officials oPpo-
started the agitation. never taking any
pains to ascertain the truth OF what 1t
published and / regret that any news
paper would stoIop over to to the infemoEs
with his protection OF the street prosti
tution made 1t impossible for the stockade
to carry out the object for which IT. had
II the newspapers and the sheriff and
all the other gentlemen who opposed the
stockade knew the condition OF the pros
titution In Salt Lake today and had just
a grain OF common sense and conscious
ness. they would think and act different.
The Salt Lake prostitutes working unde-
tected and not inspected by physician.
are specimens Of poor health. and. in fact,
I'm the last six months ] have met more
diseased women In Salt Lake than in all
my life before. And II this continues the
same way. | feel sure and sorry that the
coming generations are going TO be moth
Ing but lot Of degenerates. / say these
things as sort of advice to the people,
because, as l said before. I believe in
seesregating the Vice, although L. person
ally, am through with Salt Lake now.
The property where the stockade was
located Is sold. l have only a part inter
est left, which l expect to dispose of In
lished In some paper this morning that
had left the city. or that | was going to
leave Immediately, is without foundation
as thc:e is nothing to cause me such
hurried departure. and there IS plenty
OF work for me to do yet here in settling
after this is finished and my interests dis
posed OF entirely, will go and stay in Og-
den. where my business calls me
NOW there Is no more stockade. to the
great satisfaction of the ones who op-
posed it. They might boast that they
forced me to CO. they might congratulate
themselves for the result OF their fight;
but the truth that they did not work for
the best interests of the city, they Will
find sooner or later.
In closing. / have to say that I have
always been a Republican I'm all my life
that the American party or any of it's
members had absolutely nothing TO do
with the stockade, that the fight against
IL was n political fight, headed by a few
asitators who, regardless OF the city's
aud peoples best interests. undertook to
close the stockade and have done it for
some reasons which they and know but
II is not OF the present time to lay before
the public