| Show HAVE A I 1 ur wo are arc lit in rec receipt elat of of an invitation to life do lue eting to consider tho the title of at aara lity in ihl cily to protect tho the grantley grant luft lex of 0 any moro morn licenses to saloons arid and to request aud demand that hat the oil ting laws against gambling lion houses sess brothels the felling ailing of to minors to and henlay selling bo be strictly there would bo be no occasion for the issuing of a 11 call of that kind it tile of of tho the city were performing their full fall duty especially the officers of tho police department it bag ba corao come to us through so many luany sources that we aro ca of its truth that hush bush money hits has been effectively used with somo some of if tho the force and avre i bl blackmail lias has 1 BOI ot bren been submitted to undeserved pun lah Ish monts ments and persecutions have hate been inflicted further l that tho the lives live of f somo of the force make it tor for to execute the law as the edeell tion would followed to its legitimate leRl limato source cause causa their own on arraign arraignment moll an and d it Is uso useless less to say ay that thai all this could not bo be stopped and a stamped out by capable and earnest earliest officers tilts Is but a little city A capable man entrusted entreated with the business ought to know the tholo In cotlon of evory every ans hodio lu in town lu III a eok and do ought ight to bo be able to rive give luich directions us As would compol compel a respect tor for the decencies of society or cause the closing ot of places which failed to heed tho the warning wo we do not expect any ally city government to stop vice no ko government or modern has ever done that but there Is 1 no institution so depraved that it can not be made to conform to in the decencies of civilization or go out of business but no city government can compel this ars N hose agents to perform ahn ali work are not thom themselves selvo above accusation and a city government that Is not strong enough and firm enough and just ollough enough its own officers olli cora to do w what hat Is right will not long reta retain in tho the respect tit of the people it Is a reproach to our city government that there exists even a pr elonso for calling such a meeting as li referred to at the beginning of ill ahl article |
