The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-25
DR.. PADEN MAKES
ATTACK ON MAYOR
In Sermon From the Pulpit
BlameS City's Executive
for Social Evil.
URGES NEED OF REFORM
Declares Citizens Must Elect
Candidates Who viii Not
Tolerate Vice.
URGES NEED OF REFORM

DR.. W, NJ Paden. pastor or the First
Presbyterian church. denounced the socia
evil yesterday forenoon In a sermon en-
Titled Holy City VS. Unholy City" Ir
his sermon DR.. Paden made particular
reference To the manner In which the cv,
Is handled In Salt Lake In the so-callcd
stockade. lie denounced the segrega
ton policy attributed To Mayor Brans-
ford and urged that in the coming cleo,
ton men be voted for who would prose
cute those who are directly or indirectly
engaged I'm furthering the social evil.
In his sermon DR.. Paden declares that
there is no reason for expecting tha ex-
ecution OF laws against this vice by the
present mayor. In his policy, Dr. Paden
pest men i'll his council and the ma iorit y
OF The best men and women of the party
which elected him.
DR., Paden took for his text the ques-
ion from Revelations, And l saw the
holy city coming down out of heaven
from God, In the city. Dr. Paden says.
The extremes Of society arc found. the
good and evil OF the world. lie points
out that II Is good thing that the
strong and good cannot get away from
the weak and wicked. II the Christian
Is what he ought TO be. declares the
preacher. he Will look upon his contact
with sin In the city not as call TO
compromise With 1t, but as call 10
condemn Il.
Attacks Local Conditions.
After thus prefacing his remarks, DR..
Paden devoted his sermon to n discus
sion Of the social evil as found In Salt
Lake. He said that the proposition "that
a place should be set apart in this city
in which women like Belle London could
safely exploit The coarsest and most. cruel
form of commorcialized vice was faced
He called attention To q resolution adopt
ed by some OF the citizens OF Salt Lake
at that time which stated that the only
place 10 segregaa such lawbreakers was
in the prison. the jail, the reformatory
Later. he said the Citizens Investment
company erected nest OF cottages ana
cribs with the understanding that the
mayor and the chief OF police would
furnish them with tenants" The preach
cr said that it was 10 the credit OF the
chief of police that he would have moth
Ing To do with the scheme. Continuing
What about Mayor Brapsford? What
had he to say? This is what he said: i
have never talked TO the Sarties who arc
building the stockade, but | told third
party who sold them some property that
If the establishments were properly
erected and the business properly carried
out there would be no trouble
Bitter Denunciation.
"Some Of us did not then see how an
illegal, indecent and criminal business
could be carried on properly. but the
ability OF his expert on the social evil.
Alas. the best laid schemes o mice and
mayors gang aft aslee.' His expert is
now q convicted criminal and his and
you indorSe it is a stencil In The nos
trils Of this community-and rightly so.
Tho mayors expert has shown herself
A past master in the management OF the
stockade and segregation business. Her
plant was built for the promotion OF
The most impudent and degraded type
of commercIalized vice and has been
as you would expect such a
woman TO manage such business.
But we must not lay all the odlum
On the convicted madame or the mis-
aiken mayor. Less courageous. but not
less bameworthy, are ,ne men who have
knowingly invested money In this awful
business. II there arc such renters or
easers In this city and they cannot be
by public opinion and forced TO share
the shame of the women who pay them
rent.
I'VE must drive this business from
subject. or II We haven't. we can make
them We have enough of decent pub
ic opinion to do 1T or II we haven't,
L is our duty as Christians to make such
police force have the authority TO break
~ this business business and to
'leer this town Of Its red light districts
md red light resorts within sixty DAYS.
any such execution OF the laws against
his Vice or the business of exploiting
I by our present mayor. II should he
said that In this policy he Is al odds
With the best men on his common council
ana the majority Of the best men and
women Of the party who elected him.
Gut II is not enough that the Americans
,r the Republican Democrat or nonpar~
isans shall repudiate Mayor Bransford
md his stockade or segregation policy
and practice, but they should see that
hey ndorse no candidate for city COM
missioner who viii tolerate compromise
'ith or in any WAY do business with this
peast which feeds on men and women, |
md whose open jaws are the doors os
lell
Whoever these committees Of convon- |
ions may suggest. we must see 10 il that !
he men we vote for al tho primaries |
ire mon who will do their uttermost to |
lunt down those who are directly or In |
'irectly engaged in this degrading busl- !
lcss, and men who will prosecute those !
Who can be located and brought face to !
ace with the law as fast as they are |,
ound.'