Show n. n n H t J A HOUSE DIVIDED t 4 I 4 I t I I The unfortunate troubles in our City Council have gone beyond the confines of a mere fight of factions and have become a menace to the peace good order and safety of life and property in Salt Lake City Whatever r view of the original merits of the controversy different citizens may take all must concur concur- in re recognizing that today the demoralized demoralized demor demor- S condition of our police service is a menace to the good name of the city and to the city itself s- s This is s not a matter offered for political but for or cold eOld business consideration by the business men and property owners of the mountain inter-mountain me me- ti They noW know th that t- t when a city suddenly is filled with thousands of visitors as will happen this week in preparation for the a annual Latt Latter l Day Va Saints Saints' conference next Sunday and again next August August August Au Au- gust when the Elks w will hold their convention h here re it will wiH be natural for crooks to swarm in the wake of tl the crowds for the chances chance of plunder that gre great t i aggregations supply To provide against i these enemies of society certain to resort to Salt Sale I Lake City to the tile extent that they dare daie it is ob obviously obviously I necessary that the protective arm of tl tile the I muni municipal government should be at its best bet in poi point point l lof i of numbers leadership discipline and esprit d de I corps In some of those essentials it is is lacking and a chain link a is no stronger than its weakest I The bankers merchants professional men and taxpayers generally of S Salt lt Lake Oit City cannot annot well I afford to let this demoralization of local government government govern govern- ment drift much longer We are in danger and imminent imminent im im- danger of getting a nape name for our city throughout the country that that- will viciously operate to scare desirable people and capital away from it N Nobody wants that The difficulty in ir the City Council Coun COUI cil eil should not be irremediable Perhaps bad feeling feeling feel eel eeling ing may ba have ve been engendered among members in ina a way to render it difficult if not impossible fr a u satisfactory solution to be he reached from within But no one concerned proba probably ly would hesitate to leave the matters matter at issue to a body of partisan non-partisan and unprejudiced business men of the first class The question is one of public safety not of politics |