| Show MAKE WAR ON TRAMPS it is a rule all over our big country that a stranger is to be held as a rogue until be proves himself otherwise it seems to be an unrighteous judgement jud gement and ho monize at all with tho accepted rule of jurisprudence that amanis a man is innocent until proven guilty but in american society the former rule holds good we have so many wanderings scoundrels in this country who make it a business to travel about the country to defraud people citizens cannot be too cautious how they make acquaintances quain with strangers or how ahry accept them into home we learn of a number of rogues in utah these days who have succeeded in deceiving the people by cunning plans devised to suit the circumstances in the southern counties a tramp was discovered a short time since taking orders for a bogus his tory of rather no history at all the gentleman dressed well went to the assemblies of the cattar day saints partook of the sacrament and thus became very familiar in the community HB would next take biographical notes of the lives of the leadmo men of the town promising them the same would appear n his forthcoming history of utah this hardly ever failed to secure a subscriber and the purchaser would be required to pay ten dollars down and give his note for the balance to be paid when the history was delivered this little game worked smoothly until the tramp got on a drunk one day and gave his swindling scheme away another tramp has been operating in this county and baa succeed ed in getting into respectable households by his smooth demeanor these incidents will serve to illustrate what the desires to impress on the minds of its readers namely that no dependence depend ance can be placed on strangers there are at present so many tramps wintering in our sunny valleys that something must be done to guard the peace of society not alone tha een tle manly appearing tramp is with us but the common outcast sleeps in our barns and ont houses and who has caused many of the fires that have been so destructive thi fall even last night we find him operating in our city officers and citizens must make war on the tramps they should male it a common cause and every stranger who cannot biye a good account of himself should be set down as a rogue some plan should be adopted to make this climate so act for the lords of leisure that they would be glad to travel on to regions more congenial for their profession |
