The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-18
THE CHURCH DONKEY KICKS

AS was inevitable, tho DeSeret News
lets fly its ass S heel at Chief of Police
Barlow and at the "criminal condi.
tions - falsely alleged to exist in this
city The News suggests that Chief
Barlow should resign. aud it sets up
I hypocrItical SWIVEL about the "impo.
tency of the police force and also re.
iterates it's claim of the city being
over-run by criminal class which itself
has done the most to invite to come
here. For years the Descret News has
been proclaimlnG TO the world that Snlt
Lake City was a good place for crooks
and criminals of every degree to come to-
as here they were practically unmolest-
cd, and could do about as they liked
IN the say OF picking pockets, burglar
lzlng. hold.ups, robbcries, and even
murders. And now after a long course
of this invitation it sets up wall that
It's invitations have been accepted, and
that there are real criminals and even
murdcrers among us.
In spite, however. of the fervent in
rltations of the church organ for Grim
mails of all degrees to come here. this
city IS not more infested with law
breakers, except of the "sacred order, ''
than other cities of the class of Salt
Lake. Crime is not rampant here and
there is in fact nothing especial to com
plain of any more than there would he
in any other place Of Salt Lake i'm
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and especially murder, but what can be
expected when the church organ invites
criminals to como here, assuring them of
immunity if they Gomez
And with what sort of grace can those
who have invited criminals to come
here and assured them of immunity. put
on hypocritical front and deplore
the existence of wave of crime here
and peril to every citizen in his life
and property? Especially with what face
can they do this when their pretended
panic and scare is altogether faxed and
fictitious?
Out upon the rascals, and upon their
knavish trickcry whereby they invite
criminals to come here under assur-
ance of protection in their crimnality
and then getrup pretended scare of
horror In fact, the criminals know very
well that the invitation extended to
them was hollow mockery. They
know that they cannot commit crime
anywhere. unmolested. They did not
conein any great numbers. They are
not here TO any alarming extent, There
is no panic in this city, Nobody cred
its the pretended account of wave
of crime. and nobody here is in the least
fear or panic with regard to his person
al safety or the safety and protection
of his property. .
Such vile political trick as is now
being worked here merely for political
purposes, and tho damage and injury
of the people and fhe city through it, in
the minds of the American public, was
never wrought out before by any poIt
zeal jobbers in any part Of the United
States. 1T is so thoroughly contempti
BILE, disreputable, false, and scandalous
that the charge must react upon those
who sprang il, and operate against them
in place Of in their favor, in the very
political field in which they invoked the
rascality and the trick 1t is SO abbor
rent to all truth. so Scandalous and open
Il piece of political iobbcry, that tho
public can do nothing else than STAMP
it out with infinite contempt.