The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-24
Employees of Salt Lake County
Offices Heavily Assessed by
Church Republicans.
ONE-THIRD OF MONTHLY
SALARY Is ENACTED
Order Is Imperative, the As
sessment Must Be Paid or
Job Is Gone.

Taxpayers of Salt Lake county are
paving employees in the several county
Offices to canvass the districts in which
those employees live in behalf of the
church Republican party. This order
became operative on Monday last, md
the employees are gwen one day and
compelled under pain of dismissal to
proselyte in behalf of the church Rcpub-
licans. In addition to this, every en-
ployee IN all of the county offices has
been assessed thirty three and one-third
per cent of one month s salary for the
church Republican campaign fund. This
order was issued at the behest of the
Federal bunch, which gang decided
upon the amount of assessment against
the hundred or more employees. Those
upon the inside declare that while the
member of the bnncb have been urg
ing prompt payment of this assessment,
the bunch has been dcrelct in paying
their own assessment, which was fixed
nj only ten per cent of a month s sal
airy, and strenuous objections were
mado to making the levy at all. The
loudcst wall is made against the pay
ment of the assessment by the Kinkies. |
Peewees, Curlies and Fussles. who it is
said declare that if they devote their
time to the campaign. that should be
their contribution. The Others who are
asked to ante, however, are kicking,
and demand that the bunch come
through.
In view that every day men walk the
streets of Salt Lake carrying in sacks |
and small grips thousands of dollars
from business houses TO the banks and |
are not molested would be evidence of |
itself that there Is no wave of crime |
fastened upon Zion, One aged man who |
has passed the three-score and ten |
mark, in fact, has passed the four
score mark, every day carries the cash |
receipts from one of the largest of the
Mormon business houses in the state |
from that establishment to the bank
where the funds are deposited, and this,
too. without having thought of fear
OF beng molested or stopped shows cou-
clusively that life and property is Just |
as safe in Salt Lake as elsewhere
Tourists who have been passing
through Salt Lake. for the past few
days and who have had TO wait for
trains have been afraid TO come upl
town. having read the dispatches sent |
out from Salt Lake that there was an
epidemic of crime here and that il was
ter OF Governor Spry has cost the busi-
ness community of Salt Lake a great
deal of money. Rather than take any
chance. tourists after reading Spry 3
letter. preferred TO remain at the de-
pots and put up with Inconvenience.
rather than to take a chance of com.
Ing up town.
The morning organ Of the church Re.
publican party prints the following.
The Herald Republican continues to
advertise Utah in New York as the
greatest state In the union and tho land
o. o. opportunity for the homeseeker and
tne investor II costs us money. but II |
Is worth II. For four weeks the praise
OF Utah has been sung from the greatest
Sieetr'e TeC sign vn In the World above Broad
Way" Let's all get in and help Utah
grow.
Now the way this church Republican
organ "heps Utah grow' is demon
strated by the letter which one of its
stockholders, the governor of the sta te
issued n week ago in which he declared
that life and property was not safe in
the capital city of the state of which
he is the executive. While electric
Signs above Broadway on the ''Great
White Way were telling few people
that Utah was the land of oppor.
tunity for. the homeseeker and the in
>S@'Oi' euC ncWsEhpcTS OF IQo country
were printing the letter of Governor
Spry which declared that Utah was a
good place to stay away from. 1t
was body blow against the state. and
1t was a wilfull and malicious mis-
statement of conditions here. Lest We
forget, here is the letter Of the Cover
nor. denouncine the state over which
be is chief executive. Says the cover
nor.
Governor Spry's Letter.
October Is 1910.
To the Board of County Commissioners
and Sheriff OF Salt Lake County. and
the Mayor or Acting Mayor and Chief
OF Police OF Salt Lake CITY;
Gentlemen-It Is common knowledge
that within the past few months numer-
GUS burglaries. noldups thcfts and rob
bercs have been committed In Salt Lake
City. and vicious assaults made both In !
the day and at nigh; time. upon help
less and deienseiess women and children
For several months the city has been
and IL now infested with numerous
vicious end criminal characters BY rcn-
son OF such conditions the lives. prom
erty and homes of the citizens az such
city have been rendered insecure and |
unsafe. There justly exists widespread
fear and alarm that no man. woman or
child Is free from such assaults and
attacks Public sentiment has become