The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-13
DRIVE OUT THE
UNDES|RAbLES
Police Should Form a Dragnet
to Catch and ExpeI the Dan
gerous Criminals.
PROFESSIONAL DID NOT
SIAY YOUNG KARRICk
Victim Probably Recognized the
HOusebrcaker. With Fatal
Results.
BY MAC.

Chief Barlow should pul out tho drag
net for the criminal element that is pres
ent in this city. and every man and wom
All who cannot give Il proper account
should be driven from the city
The recent race meet and the prize
light at Reno attracted many undeslr-
ablcs Some OF these have been housed
by local criminals and have found asy-
lum in several OF TIE Iow-dive saloons.
Even though the city has been mig
Sardy In It's appropriation for the better
policing of the city. there are sufficient
men on the force 10 drive the more des-
-perate characters TO cover or from Salt
Lake.
There is not a city in The United States
that is so likely to nave as many visits
from desperate men and women AS is
Salt Lake. The city is Oh the great
highway in the passage OF the criminal
clement across the continent. Either Salt
Lake or ogden are almost certain to
house FOR a Time every crook that visits
or leaves the cities on the coast. II
they came here stranded they arc GER
tain 10 try 10 pull something or. Be
ing i;incrauis. they do not remain long
enough 10 permit OF detection. But there
arc too many who remain for wcvKs and
months. and these may be found and If
no specific charge can be brought against
them they can be given "noater ana
that ''iloater" properly enforced.
The killing OF tllat fourteen -yearold
school boy yesterday WAS not the work
Of z professional. Ono whose business
IL is 10 burglarize home would not Kill
an unsrmcd boy To cscape. The probable
its is strong that the murderer is one
who knew the karricks were nor AZ
home. that he did not expect the return
Of tho lad and that he was recognized
and shot TO lil in order 10 conceal mis-
identity.
II tile guilty ono is discovered i is
practically a certainty that he will be
found To be a novice and one who vas
known 10 his victim.
-.
Lake is a class OF men who live of the
proceeds of the shame OF fallen women.
There il d notorious case OF this kind
who came hero from Ogden anu who
has made himself conspicuous at the pri-
Inarics OF two of tho political parties.
lie has no other means of support and
sceins 10 glory IN his ;nfamy. nc and
al like him ought TO be herded and
forced 10 quit the city.
Another OF that type attempted TO get
OF the police force. and before his char
acier Was we'll known he nearly succcuucd
in doiHs so: But. because he failed a
big black friend OF his whose traffic, TOO.
is with fallen women. set about TO or
saHizc tic lowest class OF negroes in the
city into political club with which TO
de.ea: the Americans.
Sucl charactsrs a. these should be
oe broken up. II they cannot account for
themselves they should 20 to the rock
Ti,c or be forced TO flee.
II n vigorous police is pursued along
this line the beticrment VIII be instan-
t;tueous. And In the carving out OF this
policy tho council should render all the
nnauciaI support required.
Better defer some needed improve
ment> than TO neglect the demands OF The
people for sufficient police force 10 kcep
iac criminal element under control.
Tie Descrc, News has discovered that
there aIe 4 number OF card games run
ming in Salt Lake. 1t feiens surprise at
such immortality. I, asserts tina; The city |
is going 10 tho devil because or this.
Doubtessly there Is card playing here. |
There wonld be If every srog-, shop were
turned into a Mormon meeting house. !
and IL a church directed copper were !
stationed on every corner
But the News had nothing TO say about
gambling when under church control. |
there was wide-open gambling through |
oct the city and harlotry was .vIuiuon |
stencil
IL is mex, to impossible TO suppress all
KINGS OF vice. 1t never has been done |
and proba IDLY will not be done. And, be- |
Sides. there Is no game so certain 10
lneece tho sucker who goes up against
II as some or the stock propositions that |
leaders of the church have lent their |
IaiIcs to during the past few. years. A
with some OF these holy supporters OF
iiie News. would last about as long as
bucket OF sNill in . pig sty-
One OF slle strange thinse of. local poll
tics IS the attitude OF Brother Sn1Ft OF
the Methodist church. lie was one OF
INC speSkcrS at the convention OF RepuE- /
lican prohintionsls AT tho theare- in I
FcbiJafy. 1909. and indorsed bitter rcgo- 1
lutionsi against the Federal gang. This
,ear he Is in line with those he de- I
nounccd. and this. too. IN face OF the /
eonecmnation OF the leaders of that meet
iig as "crsvens'' and "coWards' By The
Snoot Mouth
II IS a nip and tuck race between The
Smoos party and the Prohibition Demo-
c-3t; .or third place in Salt Lake county
The odds arc with the Democrats.
Not single public Improvement has
been made by the Americans in Salt
Lake City that has had the approval OF
the Smoot Mouth" or the Deseret News
III this ls not sufficient cause for every
which these newspapers support, what
reason Is there lackIng9
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