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Show POLICE FAILURE. The .forces which are backing lawlessness law-lessness in Salt Lake have begun to re-Hrnt re-Hrnt Tho Tribune's expose of police conditions. In a weak and foolish attempt at-tempt to sidestep the real issue they ae-cuso ae-cuso The Tribune of being disgruntled because Martin Mulvey Las not been chosen chief of police. While The Tribune believes that Mr. Mulvey has tho experience, the ability and tho courage to enforce tho law it is not committed to his fortunes. Although Al-though ho would make an ideal chief of police Tho Tribune desires it understood un-derstood that it is only domanding that the old order of shameful failure to enforce the law shall be changed and that the laws shall be enforced. Ja reality Salt Lake is,on trial before be-fore the federal government. A federal fed-eral law passed last spring making it necessary to clean up and keep clean towns close to military reservations has been ignored and the United States authorities have begun to take notice of the fact that Salt Lake is ranking itself with one or two other cities whoso police officials have seen fit to defy the federal government. Moreover, we have a prohibition law on the statute book. Legally this city is dry; actually it is wet. . Intoxicated soldiers have frequently been seen staggering stag-gering through some of the principal st roots to the rage and indignation of j decent people, who have resented the non-enl'orcement of the prohibition law ! when its enforcement would do so much ! good for our soldier boys. Vicious hurpies have been permitted to ply their trade, thus subjecting tho soldiers sol-diers to other perils which the federal law sought to remove. In a word, there has been a failure . on tho part of the police department to suppress flagrant vice and naturally natur-ally this failure is ascribed to J. parley White, the head of the department. We are not here making an attack upon Mr. White which can be described as in . any degree prejudiced. What we have stated is matter of common knowledge, and matter of widespread disappointment and indignation. Mr. White, whatever the causes, has failed to make the police department effective against vice. Bootlegging and gambling have thrived and evil women have flocked into Salt Lake, knowing that they would receive protection. The situation has been deplorable for a long time, but the patient people of Salt Lake had waited for what they believed would be a radical change in the department. Instead they discover to their sorrow and amazement that the old regime is to be perpetuated. Mr. Scheid has announced that ho-in-tends to recommend the reappointment of tbo chief under whose administration administra-tion there has been a"notorious failure fail-ure to enforce the laws against vice. Tho Tribuno does not differ in the least from those good citizens who demand de-mand a change and The Tribune, like these good citizens, will be satisfied with any chief of police who has the courage to enforce the law, and that means courage to make such radical changes an the police department as will eliminate the protectors of vice. |