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Show $ SALT LAKE WILL NOT f I COMPROMISE WITH :j: CRIMINAL-ELEMENT r v j- The Dose rot Nows has made a ! statement that promoters of the ! I- Utah Jockey club, which Is pulling off tho forty-day raco moot In Salt r Lake, liavo "lbccd inallera" with tho 'c manatror of The Tribune, so that for $100 a day tho "game" can bo 4 contlnuod for at least a period of J-J- twenty days, despite tho protest of 4 tho merchants of Salt Lake ! The Nowa "dragged" In tho man- -I-ager of Tho Trlbuno In a mallclouu ! I way and without tho slightest pre-1- text therofor. the fact bolng that ! this newspapor has been consistent ! 4 In tho racing problem and consplcu- ! 4" ously antagonistic to tho crooked 4 work during tho Utah "meets." .j. It Is slated that Frank Knox has ! 4- boon the "Uxor" of Iho compromise. i- This Is especially untrue. Mr. Knox 4. I- Is loo busy with his poruonal - i troubles lo havo time to "fix" anv .J. othor dlfllcultles. and It Is not be- . Moved ho lias authorized any such statement as the News gives voice ! to. - .j. 4 The opinion of the manager of 4 4- The Tribune Is that forty days rac-4 rac-4 Ing In Utah is- little short of a crlmo 4 4 In face of the financial condition 4 4 here, and when tho Utah Jockey 4- club declnres Its purpose to pull off j. 4- forty days' racing regardless of pub- ! h He sentiment and without paying Into the treasury a fair per cont of 4 the earnings, that It Is high tlmo a ! 4 halt bo called. .j. 4- Mr. Knox's opinion of the morality 4. 4 of racing is not shared bv tho poo- 4. 4 pie of Sail Lake. Ills admitted per- 4 4 splc.nlty in (lnanclal nffnlrs Is town 4-4 4-4 wide", but when he says the race 4 4- meet Is a good thing for the city. 4 4- ho Is held (o be "unduly prejudiced" 4. 4 by the very largo major! Iv. 4. 4 The council acted wlsclv'lasl night 4 4 In Imposing a tax of $100 per day 4-4 4-4 on the "meet." And II must not bo 4. 4 committed to tho grunting of a 4-4 4-4 forty-day "meet" at that. Fortv days . 4 may bo decidedly a curse. And "if 4 4 a curse, tho polico department enn 4 4- be compelled to act or give way to 4- a department that will do no. 4. 4 Salt Lake must not be given ovor 4 4 to tho criminal element, oven if a 4 4 few touts and a few financial back- 4. 4 ors of touts and blacklegs say so. .j. 4- Laying uslde the moral aspect of 4. 4 such racing. Tho Tribune hopes to 4. 4 avert disaster to tho business In- 4 4 (crests of Salt Lake, and in this wo 4. J aro assured there- Is a decided son- 4. 4 timent supporting tho course that ! 4- The Tribune Is pursuing. .;. -:"4"HH44H44 . |