Show I I I I I 1 I To the Mothers of Salt Sail Lake LakeI The American administration has lost the city a year by its refusal to permit public gambling houses honses to flourish here to rob the working man of his wages but it believes that the slight increase in the tax rate made necessary to cover this and other sums springing from the failure of former administrations I to safeguard the people is a just and proper policy It is unalterably opposed to gambling believing that there is no possible justification for making the city an asylum for blacklegs and tinhorns Under the Morris lorris administration Salt Lake was as a wide open town This means that the city administration adminis permitted gambling houses to be conducted openly Every sort of vice flourished and was protected through the policy of the Morris l administration tion Under Chief of Police Lynch a church Republican and law in to tOI Governor Cutler the town to was vas full of gamblers and confidence men Ulen The city collected collected collected col col- col- col about annually from the gamblers as them to here Just how the price of f permitting operate I I much pl private vate graft was extorted from the gamblers I and which never reached the city treasury is a matter I of conjecture This graft may have reached thousands Every Republican administration the city ever had I I permitted gambling of all sorts The Smoot crowd has I promised the gamblers that they shall have a wide- wide I open open- town if the Smoot ticket is elected I During the Morris administration tion weeping women thronged the police station on Saturday nights imploring imploring ing the police to accompany them to gambling den dens and I compel the sharks to return the weeks week's salary which I their husbands had lost at the gambling table Visit the police headquarters any Saturday night now and you will find no weeping wives thronging the corridors The gambling dens are closed and they will stay closed if the Americans remain in power I The loss of this of blood money extorted f from the gamblers has caused a slight increase in the I tax rate Which do you prefer Shall the gambling dens be reopened the a year collected and the tax rate slightly reduced or are you willing to pay the small increase in tax rate and keep the gambling hells closed for good All of you mothers have boys just growing up A gambling den on ou every block in the city is a dangerous temptation to a boy lOy These dens are a constant menace not only to boys but to hundreds of working m In mn n who ho cannot resist the rattle of the chips which during the Morris administration could be heard through open windows on the streets The Smoot organization is al already already al al- ready working with the gamblers who are bitter enemies enemies enemies ene ene- mies of the American ticket NOW V MOTHERS MOTHE WHICH DO YOU PREFER THE OR A PERMANENT STAMPING OUT OF OP GAMBLING GAMBLING- IN SALT LAKE |