Show r THE TUE INCREASE IN CRIME IN UTAH NV S rv x Tooele Transcript The wave wae of or crime that Is passing over the country at H the pre present enl time is isa isa isn a n very ven remarkable condition of things from the fact tact that th the moralist will in insist Insist Insist In- In that the world Is IR getting setting better but butth th the facts act nr are all against the mom moralist list That crime I im Is on the Increase we 0 do not need to go out of or our own o State to discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover the fact Never Nevel before In the history history history his his- tory of or Utah was there such a flood of or crime sweeping ft over oer the State than there Is today but that is surely the re result rc- rc suit sult of oC present conditions Go to Salt Lake CIt City and there crime Is 13 flourishIng flourishIng flourishing flourish- flourish Ing like the flowers of summer Crime Is a thrifty plant an and needs no encouragement to 10 grow glOW It thrives on ever every land and In every clime and when encouraged d It can shoot quicker and spread faster laster than the gallows tree can grow row TOda Today the city It of or Salt Lake Is In the grasp of the up hold-up and the midnight sate sale and still their Chief of ot Police Police Po Po- lice tells the Inhabitants There Is no cause of alarm No cause of alarm When hen a man cannot can cannot cannot can can- not walk from his work to his home without being sandbagged and robbed No o cause of alarm when the office of the merchant Is broken Into and the mone money to pay pa his tomorrows tomorrow's bills carried off ore offIn offin oreIn In safety by robbers Do such officers of the law take men men for fools or does the office make them drunk with their own self importance There surel surely must be something the matter with them when they utter such sentences as that To we country people It t would not matter so O much If IC the blunders of the Salt Lake police would fall fail upon themselves them them- selves and the up hold-up gentry would stay there but the they are now no plentiful In that city that they will have to spread to the rural districts to get out of each others other's wa way and have room to operate In Of course these holdups holdups holdups hold hold- ups will not be so safe sate In the country as the they are under the charge of oC the Salt SaU Lake hearted kind hearted police brigade hut but the they are arc sure to give us some sonie trouble as we have not got the natured good-natured patience that the Salt Lake Lake police have acquired through their Indolent dispo ns But the crime Is here and growing larger eer every day dar and aDd If a change does no not come about v very ry suddenly It will be bewell bewell bewell well for Cor the country people to stay at home Instead of or going to Salt Lake and run the risk of being held helel up and be being being beng be- be ing ng robbed on every corner of her streets as her o own n Inhabitants are c beIng being heInS' heInS be he- ing InS done to on oh every night nl lt of the week with a murder or two thrown In 03 J Su Sund Sunday r 3 5 |