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Show talent'Js not doing the work,' they rqtmd up the strangers. - - "WE SHOULD "tie GLAD' TO BEE THE POLICE PO-LICE ARISE TO THE OCCASION AND PUT AN END TO THE ANNOYANCES CITIZENS AEE SUFFEBING. WE CAN SEE. NO REASON WHY IT Ig NOT DONE. SURELY, WHAT IS POSSIBLE POSSI-BLE ELSEWHERE IS POSSIBLE IN SALT LAKE." , " . ; ,.;,.!' . In the issue of NoYember.2D The Telegram said; "The cheap lodging-houses are filled with such men. They do not work andthey are not receiving money from home. They have fairly good clothes, they eat regularly and they seem to be getting along all right. The question js, how do. they get it? The natural answer is that they steal it. . . . "It won't do to stop with' a few arrests. ' There should be a thorough cleaning up and Salt Lake should be rid of every man who cannot give a good account of himself. They should be presented to victims for identification and if not identified either ordered out of town or sent to the stone pile. They will soon leap to avoid Salt Lake." There is no needf quoting more. The a'dvico to the Police department was good, not because we gave it, Jmt because what we said was true.- -THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HOWEVER, SCORNED TO ACCEPT SUGGESTION. IT PREFERRED EVIDENTLY TO ALLOW THE CITIZENS XO BE HELD UP. - At any rate, nothing was done by the police. A whole lot was done by the robbers, however. They had the easiest time of their lives. Now after months of delay the, police have adopted the suggestions made by The Telegram. THE RESULT BEARS US OUT. , WHAT SALT LAKE WANTS IS A POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT WONTTSULK. IT WANTS A MAN AT THE HEAD WHO WILL NOT REGARD RE-GARD CRITICISM OF HIM AS AN OFFICER AS PERSONAL CRITICISM. IT WANTS ACTION AC-TION : The police have shown that they can do the right thing if they want to. NOW LET THEM KEEP IT UP. : - ' V ;.. .Th8 Polica ant ths Crooks. - i ' .-The police made important captures Monday ; morning. They caught men who will be charged with being, hold-ups and with having burglar tools , V in their" possession. ' ' . They got them in a cheap lodging-house. Several Sev-eral of them had been up in the Police court on charges of vagrancy. -' For months citizens of Salt Lake have been at i the mercy of highwaymen and burglars. Hardly a - ; night passed that some person was not held up or some store or residence robbed. THE POLICE DID NOTHING. The Telegram thought they ought to do something." some-thing." It suggested what to do. We' believe the ; suggestions were right and timely. In order to show that we have reason for our belief we shall ; reproduce some of .the editorials that nave appeared ; in these columns. - The first is from The Telegram of Nov: 9 a good : while ago: ."THEY . CAN BEGINV BY ROUNDING UP THE VAGRANTS AND SUSPICIOUS CHAR AC TERS WHO ARE TO BE FOUND AT THE I CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES AND PREFERRING C0MJELATTSI ' AGAINST THEM.- IN -THE PO-v PO-v LICE COURT. i Tor over a month the city has been" overrun wtth criminals. Hold-up atyer hold-up has been , committed and house after house has been robbed, but the police have done nothing. , v "IF THE POLICE HAVE MADE NO EFFORT TO CLEAR THE CITY OF THE CROOKS IT IS TO THEIR SHAME; IF THEY HAVE MADE THE EFFORT" THE' RESULT SPEAKS FAR FROM WELL FdR THE EFFICIENCY OF THE . FORCE. . . . , - . "The Chief, his sergeants, detectives and patrol-! men should know where such characters congregate j and lodge. They should make wholesale raids, j" ' - "Few of the crimes that are daily recorded in the newspapers are committed by citizens of Salt Lake. THEY ARE THE WORK OF THE TOUGHS THAT DRIFT HERE BECAUSE THE TOWN IS KNOWN TO BE 'EASY.'" - 'Again on November 15 we remarked:" t ' M. fin most places the police have a pretty good knowledge of the good and the bad citizens, and when robberies are committed they are generally able by making arrests on: suspicion and making searching-examinations of the prisoners to put ,a step to the crimes. . If they are satisfied that local |