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Show MIR IS CHARGED " Wlffl 'BMIGG1' Civic Betterment Union Makes Sharp Rejoinder to Ferry's Attack. WANT CITY 'CLEANED' Instances Cited Wherein Officials Are Alleged to Have Been Derelict. Chari; inj; that Mayor W. Mmil Ferry had '"bulldozed and bullyragged a committee com-mittee of respectable rltlzens who were merely eerilslng their riht to petition," a com muni cat Ion bus been forwarded to the city commission by Irvin 1. Lowery jB secretary of the Civic lletterment nnion.S and will come before tho commission at this morninfi's meeting, hint nljrht's meeting meet-ing bavins been postponed. 'Tho communication is in reply to Mayor May-or Ferry's answer to the protest of the Motterment union against tiie alleged immoral im-moral conditions prevailing In rtilt lUe. It om plains that three -fourths of tho mayor's answer- contained nn arraignment of the union rather than an explanation of the failure of the police department to enforce tho law. "The mayor complains that our statements state-ments are baseless nionlhlngs." the communication com-munication reads. "How could he know this unless he invest iga ted our com-plaints? com-plaints? In view of tho mayor's opinion of the average policeman, expressed to ns on a previous occasion, that 'his intelligence intelli-gence is in his feet and he, is solid Ivory from the shoulders up,' would it not have been more becoming for him to have, told us that nur complaints would he investigated investi-gated and to have appointed a committee to do so'.'" Wants City "Cleaned." "On the night of the 20th instant proof was furnished that women of the underworld under-world are with us in numbers. On Hint dale a raid hegun hy the sheriff's ofiVe resulted in the arrest of tvenly-si women wom-en within an hour in Ihe art of soliciting on the streets. And tills In spite ot the fact that tho raid had been t ipped off. "Kalt Jike City should be (.leaned up. If for no other reason than that we have soldiers in training at the fort. It is a shameful thins: that our hoys should be made Hip prey of women under our very noses. If this city is not f-'o cleaned up and kept clean we sha'l doubtless have the humiliating spectacle now being enacted en-acted at Sea t tie. 'Major- Cmernl 1 L A. Greene, commanding the i 'amp Lewis cantonment,' says a press dif. patch, 'charged today- that a powerful vice syndicate syn-dicate was operating at Seattle, and declared de-clared that unless immediaie action wm? taken to clean up the city lie would order his soldiers to keop away from Kr-aUle.' And Secretary Baker only last week declared de-clared that 'unless the network of protection pro-tection In spread around the sold tors hi . communities adjoining the, war camps thi whole moral lifu of this nation will be lowered.' " . The union asks tho commission either to make an investigation or to appoint a committee to make one. Jt asks that ihe hearing he an open one. with invitation to any person having Knowledge of vicious conditions to come forward and testify. Seven Questions Asked. In the report seven uuesHops arc suggested sug-gested as suitable for sir Una: at an investigation inves-tigation such as is asked. They follow: 1. Why it was thai, two policemen refused to fake two drunken men and some whisky from a certain rooming house when one of our workers led the policemen to the place, and showed thorn the men and the liquor? 2. Why a certain plae in the rear of 23.-1 South Main street has not ben cleaned up. although two officers on the police force wre asked at different differ-ent times to go down there? 3. Why, when two of our societv women in Salt Lake, in the latter part of September, telephoned to the 0ltee Hta-tion at 11 o'clock at night aod asked that officers be sent to at - rest a drunken man who had insulted them on the street, they neglected to do so? 4. Wiry one of the women of the streets, caught Ui the raid on the 26th instant, said to the two men who arrested ar-rested her. "Whv didn't vou warn us? You always did before"? 5. Why, the other evening, a negro waiter in a "soft drink." parlor should have said to two men. who represented represent-ed themselves as coming from outside out-side of the state, that the police bad advised him to keep the lid on for a while because the Betterment union and the hherlffs office were making such a fuss? 6. Whether there is anv connection connec-tion between the following facte: The telephone call to Sheriff Corless on the 2Sth from a certain woman of tiie underworld, asking whether a warrant war-rant was out for one of her girls: Die telephone on ii to the sheritT the same night not more than five minutes aiterward, purporting to he from Mav- m or Kerry, offering derisively th use of the pohep wagons in the proposed raid; the tightness that nleht of the places where liquor had been sold and Eramoling been going- on. and the sudden sud-den disappAfLiauco from the streets of the many familiar faces of women? 7. Whether there is anv r-onner-tion between threats hy policemen on the, Pt reels to "get the scalp" of on I of our merherB by name, and the attempt at-tempt Cue following night to entrap two of our members In different well-known houses and at different times, of the night? |