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Show t.?p - i V TRUTH TRUTH was glaring selling, at the octopian giants with on the evils of Sunday liquor offered any i- Street, Salt Lake City. t JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor isd Manager. Entered at the postofllce ft Salt Lake City, Utah, for transmission through the malls as second-cla- ss - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 20,1902 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ONE TEAR (In advance) M SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS " I I , matter. I E2.00 100 75 Postmasters sending subscriptions to Tbuth may retain 85 per cent of subscription price as commission. i I V : If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the punllcatlon should be notl-- t fled by letter two weeks or more before tno term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his Mer stopped; all arrears must be paid in Seauests of aubsorlbeA to bare their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present address. Address all communications to Thuth Compact, Salt Lake City, Utah. Pub-USHI- According to a report in the daily papers, the retail liquor dealers of Salt Lake have assumed a duty that has s undeniably come upon them. They have taken up the task of suppressing the lawless dive keepers who give shelter to criminals. As business men the liquor dealers have long known of the necessity for such action, but not until ' recently have they taken the matter up with an apparent determina-tio-n . 1 to drive the disreputable element out of the business. The killing of the man Jennings at the Fairchild road house and the shooting of last Sunday brought the danger fairly before them. In Salt Lake the business of selling liquor is engaged in by some desperate and reckless individuals who have nothing at stake, and who repeatedly violate the law for temporary profit. It is this outlaw class thac is to be sup- which the community is crying out minimized. has made up its mind how against can be The sale of liquor cannot be stopped. the approaching campaign ought to be The business is recognized by the ' run. statutes as a lawful one, and the experiSALOONS AND CRIME. ence in all other places is that it is better that it should be so, as people will A shooting which threatened to drink whether it is against the law or even which and fatal, may yet prove and as long as there are people to cause the death of the victim, disturbed not, there will be other people the quiet of Sunday afternoon, and in- buy liquor, to sell it. In Salt Lake as elsetensified the indignation of the good willing where, there are people in the liquor people of the city against those respon- trade who desire to conduct their busisible for permitting the carnival of ness decently and respectably. There crime which has held sway in Salt Lake are men here who sell liquor and carry and deon their business as recently. The circumstances of this cently as grocers anddecorously dry goods merhigh crime are not very dissimilar from chants, but, on the other hand, there those which attended the killing of are others who do not, who do not try Jennings at the resort south of the city to, and who on the contrary turn their known as Fairchilds roadhouse, a couple places into hell holes of vice and crime. Their aim is to the misguided indiof weeks ago. Both occurred at ex- viduals who get frequent them drunk in ceedingly disreputable places, which order not only to get their money for should not be allowed to exist in a civi- the vile stuff they sell, but to rifle their lized and orderly community. The pockets and rob them of their hard earned coin. This kind of saloon main difference appears to be that one keeper fosters vice and crime flourwas right in the heart of the city, un- ishes under his patronage. These der the very nose of the. police, and the are the kind of men who should be allowed to conduct a business other out in a rural district. The daily not which affords them so many opportunipapers treated the public to their usual ties for carrying out their evil propendissertations after such tragedies. The sities. The very nature of the liquor Tribune, the slavish party hack that it business demands that only decent men should be allowed to engage in it. The is, almost justified the affair of last man who applies for a license to sell Sunday because it occurred under a Re- liquor should, before receiving it, be publican municipal administration. The required to establish to the satisfaction Herald snarled and aimed a blow at the of the granting power, that he is a person of more than average' good characliquor dealers because they will not pa- ter. If he can't he should be tronize that paper with their subscrip- denied the license.do that, If this would have tions or advertisements, while the Des- the effect of reducing the number of eret News assumed a high moral tone saloons, so much the better. There The Salt Lake pressed, not only inside the city, but everywhere within the limits of the county. It appears to be the purpose of the Retail Liquor Dealers association,' an organization than has among its members the proprietors of the leading hotels, as well as all the prominent liquor dealers in the city, to force the dive keepers to retire from the business. The movement should be encouraged. There does not seem to be the slightest doubt that irresponsible 4 and disreputable men get into the busi- J ness of selling liquor through the aid of some of the breweries. A brewery will start a man without knowing anything about his character, and he proves to be a highwayman, thiei and murderer. Not all breweries are careless in this' regard, but some of them undoubtedly are, according to the records of the police department. f The Steinway Piano, t I The Sandard of the World. J J f The Mason and Hamlin, Noted for the Sweetness and Purity of Tone. t J The Kimball Piano, Faithful historians 4 b b b Sold and Guaranteed by t t D. 0. C&lders Sons Co., I -- . , .... are too many of them now, so many in fact that they cannot all make a livin for their proprietors without many of the latter resorting to the methods which have brought down the wrath of the community and disgraced the city. The city council should entirely revise its method of granting liquor licenses and should turn down cold and unceremoniously all applicants who cannot show that their characters are a guarantee that they will run their establishments decently. Failure to do so should be ample cause for withdrawal of licenses already in existence. The manner in which the so-call- ed Sunday closing is being operated at is unsatisfactory. It is firesentshortmost of encouraging crime. Everybody knows that liquor is sold on Sunday. The mayor knows it, the chief of .police knows it, the police officers know it and the public knows it. The police have practically said they cant stop it, and with the force as small as it is that is probably true. This is something like the way it i9 done: The back doors are open, at which sentinels are posted, who see that the doors swing only to the parties whom the sentinels know are not spotters or minions of the law, at the time drinks are being served. The saloon or dive in that way becomes crowded with people. They dont, want to go out, because they might have difficulty in getting into another place should they become thirsty again. There they stay, and drink and drink until they are drunk. They are then at the mercy of the keeper of the resort and his minioDS. They are practically bereft of protection on account of the difficulty the police have in gaining access to the place. Late in the night the Sunday frequenters of these places are turned out in the streets reeling drunk and probably with empty pockets. A complete remedy is hard to find, but it does seem it better to face the facts as and have those places open to they are, would be Then they at least would productive of so much crime. DONT BE FOOLISH liams, of Provo. Mr. Williams has three more contracts running ;ind intends building a terrace. Work will be begun on the three matured contracts at once. All people who want ro own their homes can do so by taking ut contracts with the National Association. Its foolish, to go n paying rent when you can pay for vour home with less money than yon oay for rent. Reason it out and se low silly it is for you to go on paying of living in ent for mans house, and at the end 01 all voir life have nothing to show for the Consult he money you have paid. National Homeseekers Association 214 Dooly Block. Home-seeke- the-privileg- 4547 West First South St. ..v, 78 West Second South. The National Homeseekers Association has matured three contracts of $1,000 each for D. J. Wil- Artistic Finish and Thorough Workmanship, Always Reliable and Satisfactory, HUBBARD INVESTMENT GO., officers. 4 the not be I The Behr Bros, Piano, have recorded the fact that President Roosevelt writhed and twisted under the encomiums showered upon him at Oyster Bay. The preacher practically declared that Teddy was the real thing, and had been sent by a providential power to do battle with the trusts. Even as David faced Goliath, so Teddy FOR SALE. but not one of the papers, the lapractical suggestions as to how very central, first class locamentable state of affairs' which exist in Grocery Store, 11,800. A great bargain. stock, good tion, lawthis city can be remedied and the HUBBARD INVESTMENT CO. ' 78 W. Second South. less element brought under control. forward its faNews as usual Democratic oratory of the kind that The nostrum of put prohibiting Sunday ALFALFA and FRUIT FARMS Cicero might envy, will be heard in the vorite and the Herald, with a We have some great bargains in highly selling, liquor school In every coming campaign. farms, from 10 to 150 acres, get our list view of punishing those who refuse to house and from every stump, the Demobefore buying. Hubbard Investment Co. columns, repeated cratic spellbinders will discuss the use its advertising a little more vehemence than CHOICE BUILDING LOTS the burning questions of the hour. The with the pohowl diurnal its against usual, Thirteen blocks from Temple, city water Republicans will throw out their cam- lice for not the Sun- high level ground, shade trees, enforcing strictly deep lots, wide paign hints like a farmer salts his 8150 to 82 0, 810 the From aiid Ordinance. streets liquor alleys, cash, $7.50 closing sheep. Things are really taking on an day Will make month. you per big profits, better dealers themselves came the only pracon than interest. amusing phase. money Building up rapidly. ticable suggestions as to how the evils his sling in hand ready to hurl the fatal stone. If Teddy is making a bluff, his Issued Weekly by conscience must have pricked him inTfcVTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. stead of his modesty. II and 12 ' Central Blook, West Second South an-th- e rs cr i |