The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-31
WILL R|C!DLY
ENFORCE LAWS
Council TO Direct Police Chief
to Wage Stern War
Upon Vice.
AMERICAN PARTY RECORD
CLEAR FOR CLEAN CITY
Councilman Mckinney Bitterly
Denounces ''Stockade" as
EVIL to Be Eradicated.

OF the whole at meeting Thursday
evening decided to recommend 10 the
city council for adoption next Monday
night resolution providing that the
chief of police be instructed 10 enforce
rigidly all ordinances relative to the
social evil, gambling and liquor selling
and that he Immediately take steps to
close the so-callcd west side ''stock-
ade' and all other places of a like
nature in the city,
The resolution was adopted us Il re
suit of the Investigation Instituted
week ago by the council to ascertain
why it is impossible to obtain convic-
tions against certain criminal element
Of the city. The matter was brought
up on Il resolution introduced by Coun-
Gilman Fernstrom and unanimously
passed by the council. On the strength
of this resolutiop. Chief Of Police Bar
low and City Attorney III. j, Dininnv
we're cited to appear before the council
and tell all they knew of the con
dirions.
After some discussion as 30 whether
or not tho discussion should be com
pleted Thursday ulght or go over, it
was decided To complete II. and CHIEF
Barlow was summoned Councilman j.
w. Mckinney. in accordance with Il
promise made week ago, introduced
number of resolutions adopted atI
various meetings of American party
organizations and American supporters,
showing that it had always been the
policy of the American party To en-
force the law against the social evil,
irrespective of where it may be found.
The meetings referred to by various
members of the council at which these
resolutions were adopted. it was pointed
out by Councilman Mckinney, were
held for the purpose of bringing about
Il better enforcement of the law
Where Party Stood.
''If the resolutions adopted at these
meetings show anything. declared
Councilman Mckinney, 'they show
that great effort has been made on the
part of the American party to bring
about a better enforcement of the law.
II can not be truihfully said that the
American party has ever stood for that
institution commonly called
the 'stockade.
Councilman Mckinney showed that
The American club, as far back as sep
tcmber. l90S, in no uncertain terms
denounced the establishment of the
siockade,' and called upon the stale
IL,
which they failed TO do. according to
Mr. Mckinney, even after their party |
organ had also called upon them TO do
so, Continuing, Mr.. Mckinney said:
State Officials Fail
1t seems strange however. that moth
Ing has ever been done by the state |
officials toward the disincorporation of |
The Citizens Investment company. which
liza tion, II possible, Of the evil in Salt |
Lake City, and not for The purpose OF J
minimizing or reducing the evil. In my
mercial. morcy-making proposition on en-
terPrise. Its manifest purpose is TO |
immune within it's walls as many of So
cicty's outcasts as possible and then !
wiring from those uifortunatcs by ev-
cry means OF cXorbitarcy which greed |
and aVarIcu can devise. lhe gold for
which they sell their bodies and damn
tEcir souls.
And yet 1t seems tlrnt there arc those
SO dull and blind to Imagine that This |
place of infamy is a beneficent insti- |
tuition Others appear TO regard II q
place Of segregation. a corral into which |
those women arc To be driven and kept
separate and apart from thg; rest OF the
community They say ii is better to
have them there ;lian TO have them
scattered throughout tho CITY. utterly ig-
nornS the fact that thew arc now aud
have been scattered throughout the city. |
and that. In addition, We have the stock
AIDE. Many Of those women will moi
remain within the walls Of thai instltu
lion any longer than They arc compelled
10 remain there: AS soon as they can
they leave the place and seek some other
spor III tho city which is 10 them more
leave others must DC secured to take
their. places. because the 'stockade'
would not he a success unless a suf-
ficlcnt number OF those unfortupates
could be kept there,
Must Be Imported
So. II others already in tho city can
rot be induced 10 enter its portals new
ones must be imported from the outside.
After this importat tioa has continued for
time, the city Is overrun with every
grade and shade OF those unhappy women
and those GetestabIe human parasites
who live In idleneSs uoonn the scarlet
seems to be taking place in the name
of restriction or segregation. Instead OF
the "stockade being ii restricted dis
trict, is 1t not a central point for the
distribution Of evil, place into which
those women are imported and from
which they issue to infcst other parts
or the city whenever they can find bet
ter quarters. or when they can no longer
endure the oppression Within that en-
closure OF vice and crime? 70 rnc that
pague-spot Is utterly abhorrent and |
am able To understand how am de-
cent. self-respectns community IN this
1l%t 1nl%entlern century viii all Of is en-
can tolerate such an Inferno.
Amusing if Not Serious.
The situation as IL exists today would
be amusing II Z were not so very Sc
I1ous. with these women scattered over
80 large d part oi il:c city the advocates |
OF the ''stockade" shout DO not mo-
lest that institution because ir you do
you will scatter its inmates all over the
city. With hundreds scattered through
out the city. and according to some of
the testimony in this investigations only |
about half a hundred within the stock
adc. the champions OF that institution
cry. DO not disturb that establish
mcnt or YOU viii scatter that half hum
dred all over the city. and mineling with
the innumerabe host without. the con-
dition Will become insufferablc." Now.
that seems TO me ridiculoua
Now, so far as the American psrty is
concerned. II has always been opposed
to the ''stockade Such an institution
Is contrary tn law. 10 say nothing OF
morals. and no official who is mindful
OF the oath which he has taken 10 sup
port the la1 and the constitution, can
give II any encoura cement or protection
The meetings that were held after the
late election had for their object the en-
forccment OF the laws against gambling
and institutonalizcd vice In any form
The 1903 county platform OF the Ameri-