Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-04
REV. F. B. SHORTS TEXT
CARNIVAL OF CRIME"
Minister nc First Methodist Church
Rccommcnds an Increase in
Thc CITY Police Force.


Rev r. b. Short OF the First Metho-
dist church preached Sunday evening
on our Carnival OF Crime" recon-
mending an Increase ia the city police
force. and holding that 1uries should
allow the law 10 take It's course. Mr..
short spoke from the text. Exodus xxi.
l2-'He who smiteth a man 80 that he
die SHAH be surely put TO death" The
speaker said IN part:
The same principles that were we'll
for society IN the days of Moses are
equally good today. tor those that dis
regard that larger light IN which civii-
ration now moves. Life is sacred. God
has, therefore. hedged il about with the
greatest possible care But there are
those that disregard every law that
makes for the protection Of life
This community has been stirred to
tts very depths recently Indeed there
seems TO be no end to the carnival OF
crime that Is being carried on i'm this
community. This city has become the
dumping ground for every bad man
that crosses the continent The crimes
are not committed by residents of this
state Two judges informed me yester-
day that OF the 146 criminals committed
20 the penitentiary last year that only
70 were citizens here. In this Warden
Pratt agrees. This business Of leniency
with these travelling criminals should
he Discontinued. For theft and bur
glary and larceny and wife beating
there should be instituted an old Susan
Ike we have back In Delaware. mean
THAI the whipping post would greatly
reduce such infuCtiona Of the law as
are SO common In these parts.
Just think Of our iails and penitentia-
~ being filled with boarders for whom
the taxpayers must put up their cash
rather than have these undesirables at
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 re-
leased and Swallowed only TO be soon
apprehended again for some crimef
This could be largely eliminated by the
free use OF the whipping post But
some Of our friends cry Never such
cruelty for Utah"
Lawbreakers must be punished and
that punishment must be commensur-
ate with the infraction of the law. Only
thus win society endure. Society must
be protected against the ravages OF this
worthless. voorhees, and high handed
band OF thugs and robbers and murder
absolutely necessary. We would save
them by the grace Of God. II we could,
but they win not come unto Christ.
Therefore. the law must lay its cold
iron grip upon them and coerce them.
The good warden Of our penitentiary
informs me that there are II murderers
now serving a life sentence. That |
means that II men have. been muir
dered-11 innocent lives have been
tribution 20 society has been only |
crime. But worse than that, IL means |
that II men lost sight OF the sanctity Of |
life. And stu worse, II means that the |
very heart Of the law OF Utah and the |
ri righteousness OF God have been stabbed |
to the very heart. Is there no remedy !
for this? Must this city and this state |
continue 10 pour out its tears and to |
shed its blood because Of these desper- |
ADDE'S?
There IS a remedy for our carnival OF |
crime. First. I would suggest that our /
city fathers Increase our police force.
AZ present our police force Is inefficient |
because Il Is too small II would be
better to Increase our policemen. even
though we had 10 discontinue some OF
our street improvements, but that ]
would not be necessary. Second, l 4
would suggest that our city fathers d.
fIN NNA AfA'iAANNo " NAAfAAANN wv y Il
suspicious character that comes into /
he city. The police and detective forces |
are always subjects OF criticism and |
justly 80. Relative to the /
last murder that took place here. two |
men told me that our chief Of detectives /
was informed that a robbery was going |
10 be committed by the people who |
committed tho murder. 1 asked that /
chief about the story. and he said that /
no such information had been brought /
10 him, but that, having some suspi- i
rions Of these men, he AT once went 70 /
heir roominghOuse for them because /
he report that was telephoned to the
police station described them so well.
Third. ! would suggest that our juries
permit the law TO take It's course In
.hese most aggravated cases until the
iesperado, the thief and the murderers
hail feel that this city and this state
s no place for them 10 engage in their
business. He that smiteth a man. so
hat he die. Should shall surely be put
% death" These laws must be enforced
n order to stop this carnival of crime.
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