Show THAT OHAItGE TO 1HE JURY Judge ZAKES charge to the grand jury as published in yesterdays HeRALD was a terrible arraignment of local offieials for the nonenforcement of the laves It was an appropriate successor to the charge delivered livered to the previous grand jury by the chief justice a few months ago It is to be hoped that this one will have bettor effect than followed the other for whilst there was more or less of sensational bluster about what the late grand jury would dot do-t will not be claimed that much was 110 omplished It will not be said that much if anything was done towards tho suppression ression of prostitution for there seem too > to-o practically as many houses of illfame as formerly if gambling has been stopped ho fact has not been proclaimed and so far as appearances go there are just as many gamblers and just as many gaming houses as before nobody who goes upon tho streets on tho Sabbath will pretend pre-tend that whisky selling on Sunday Sun-day has been discontinued for the drunken men furnish convincing evidence that it cannot be much more difficult diffi-cult to obtain intoxicants on the first day of the week than on tho second or third It is high time that a determined effort was put forth by courts prosecutors and jurors to suppress tho evils complained of and recover re-cover something of the good name und fame which once belonged to Salt Luke The present reputation of the city is anything any-thing but creditable to the administration nor does it tend to induce the coming of either the capital which is so much needed or tho class of people desired de-sired Reputable men with families are not seeking homos in cities where burglaries and holdups are of nightly occurrence oc-currence where saloons ore run openly on Sunday and where houses of prostitution are not Interfered with by the officials except ex-cept on license days when tho keeper and inmates arc notified to pay into the police court tho sum asked as a permit to continue business for another quarter An earnest energetic grand jury ought not to find it difllcult to get evidence justifying I the indictment of at least Homo of the parties par-ties whose doings have given this city a bad name at home and abroad I Especially interesting and pointed wore his honors remarks about illegal voting At every election it is charged that men vote illegally some repeating others voting vot-ing in names other than their own and still others through perjury as totho statutory statu-tory qualifications Arrests at the polls are frequently made but the election being over nobody prosecutes and the cases are dropped If tho allegations art true the indictment and conviction of a few of the guilty would have a salutory effect for even the toughest of men are not going go-ing to run the risk oft getting into tho legislature for the sake of voting As things have crone the bosses and the crooks have been encouraged to believe they would not be prosecuted no matter how flagrantly they violate tho laws for the preservation ot tho purity of elections Let us hope that tho change will beheaded be-headed by tho classes arraigned as well as by tho inquisitors and that the present term or tile n M wi n nn o l ic court will witness the inauguration inaugura-tion of reforms in more directious than one |