Show I IN EARNEST AT LAST I I The police and the police court have seemingly at last awakened to the fact that the laws against prostitution were I not enacted for the purpose of putting money inte the city treasury The I 4 manner in which the ordinance has 1 y generally been applied has been a public = i pub-lic scandal as has often been pointed e f out by THE HERALD The law has been Ii f l applied in such a way as to make the corporation stand in the position of i licensing prostitution a thing against I i which the great majority of the people II I I i i of Salt Lake protests most earnestly I The periodical arrests of the prostitutes I 1 have come almost with the regularity of the visits of the license collector and I t usually the women have gone into 1 J court knowing there was no valid evi I dense against them have pleaded t guilty paid their fines and gone forth t to continue their sinning and I t 1 gather money against next h license t li-cense day Prostitution has Z in reality been made a source of revenue i I J I rev-enue to the corporation pronounced as I I public sentiment has been against it i and hard as have been the protests of s t press and people against throwing I r around the busmess the semblance of I ° the protection of a license Some weeks J ago the kee era and inmates of several 4 l of the houses of ill fame were arrested i and fined when the police judge I Ii warned them that if they were again I brougit before him they would be 5 more severely dealt with It is said I 1 that some heeded the warning ando and-o closed their establishments or left town t I but It seems that others concluded to i 1 I 1 defy the law and the consequence i t has been the batch of arrests last I week The police justice it seems I i4 t has not forgotten the warning nor 1 j the parties to whom it was given for it c 1 will be seen by reference to the accounts l l i of the trial as they have taken place t during the past two days that His a j Honor is imposing sentences which indicate in-dicate that he is in earnest I It is sincerely to be hoped that the I municipal authorities have made up t their minds to stamp out prostitution if I it can be done and that we have heard i t ills last of the scandal that the business J I is Licensed in Suit Lake It is frequently j asserted that prostitution cannot be 1 suppressed that the evil has always existed and always will exist This I may be true but it is certain that an I earnest honest determined application of the ordinance will check the evil and I prevent its votaries from flaunting their vile trade in the face of the public But I whether or not the business can be I prohibited the City of Salt Lake with its professions of morality and Christianity Chris-tianity cannot afford to either wink at the nastiness or to make merchandise of the debasing traffic hence it is gratifying grat-ifying to n Jte and commend the rigor and determination displayed in the Police Court in dealing with the unfor tunate but brazen creatures The officers ficers sholud also understand that fine anti imprisonment do not give the women immunity for any set period bt that the law demands their arrest every day if they sin every day |