The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-04
METHODIST PASTOR
SUGGESTS REMEDIES
The Rev. F. B. Short breaches
Sermon on "0ur Carnival
of Crime"
RECOMMENDS INCREASE
IN CITY POLICE FORCE
Says That Juries Should Permit
the Law to Take Its
Course.

At the First Methodist church Sun
day evening the pastor. the Rev. Fran
els Bureette Short. preached on "Our
Carnival Of Crime. - The Rev. Mr.
Short took for his text Exodus XXI, H.,
8 lie that smiteth man, so that he die,
shall be surely put TO DEATH In part
the Rev, Mr.. Short said;
The Bible Is the most marvellous among
books. IL springs from the heart Of
righteousness. Its whole purpose Is 10
put men into a right relation with every
other man The fatherhood OF God evil
dcnces that God has n fathcrly concern
Tor his every child. Therefore. the Ten
commandments and all the just prn-
thcrclrom.
The same principles that were well for
society In the days of Moses are equally
good today. for those that disregard that
larger night in which civilization now
moves. Life is sacred. Cod has, there
fore. hedged 1t about with the greatest
possible care. But there are those that
disregard every law that makes fcr the
protection OF HE.
This community has been stirred TO its
very depths recently. Indeed there
seems to be no end 10 the carnival of
crime that is being carried ON in this
community. This city has become the
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crosses the continent. The crimes are
not committed by residents of this state.
lwo Judges Informed me yesterday that
OF the liG criminals committed 10 the
penitentiary last year that only twenty
five were citizens here. In this Warden
Pratt agrees. This business OF lenency
discontinued, For theft and burglary
and larceny and wife beating there should
| be Instituted an Old Susan like we have
back In Delaware. L mean that the
~ In
| infractions of the law as are so COM
mon in these parts,
Care Not for Imprisonment.
Just think of our iails and penitentiary
| being filled with boarders for whom the
taxpayers must put up their cash rather
! than have these undesirabes a [ large in
the community! What care they for a
| term in prison? And what change In
| them does their so-Called punishment
| make? Are they not released and shad-
owed only to be soon apprchended again
| for some crime? This could be largely
| eliminated by the free use OF the whip
ping post. But some OF our friends cry
Never such cruelty for Utah.'
BaworeaSers must be punished and
| that punishment must be Commensurate
with the infractlon OF the law. Only thus
VIII society endure. Society must be
protected against the ravagcs OF this
worthless, workless and high handed
band OF thugs and robbers and murder
ers. Their elimination from society is
them by the grace of God. II we could.
| but they VIII not come unto Christ.
| Therefore. the law must lay its cold iron
! grip upon them and coerce them.
The good warden Of our penitentiaTy
informs me that there are eleven muir
derers now serving a life sentence That
means that eleven men have been mur-
dered-eleven innocent lives have been
struck down by men who's sole contribu-
| tion 10 society has been only crime. But
worse than that IL means that eleven
| men lost sight OF the sanctity OF life.
| And still worse, IL means that the very
| heart OF the law of Utah and the right
eousness of God have been stabbed TO
| to the very heart. Is there no remedy
| for this? Must this city and this state
continue TO pour out its tears and to
| shed It's blood because OF these despera-
| does?
Increase the Police Force.
There Is a remedy for our carnival OF
| crime. First, l would suggest that our
| city fathers increase our police force. At
| present our police force is inefficient, be-
| cause ii is too small, II would be bet
| ter to Increase our policemen even
| though we had TO discontinue some OF
our street improvements. but that would
not be necessary. Second, / would sug-
! Sest that our city fathers direct our de-
tectives to shadow every suspicious char
acter that comes into the city, The po-
| lice and detective forces are always sub
| Jects OF criticism and sometimes justly
| so. Relative to- the last murder that
lOph plutS mere, tNO men lOlu me lHaL
our chief OF detectives was informed that
a robbery was going 10 be committed by
| the people who committed the murder.
| asked that chief about the story, and
| he said that no such information had
been brought TO him. but that having
some suspicious OF these men, he at once
| went TO their rooming house for them be- =
cause the report that was teephoned 10
| the police station described them so well.
! Third | would suggest that our juries
| permit the law To take its course in
| desperate. the thief and the murderers
shall feel that this city and this state
| is no place for them TO engage in their
| business. He that smiteth a man. so
| that he die. (should) shall surely be put
| TO DEATH" These laws must be enforced
| in order to stop this carnival! OF crime.