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Show 1 - - : - :o V -t t: ' ii 1 4 v.l :t '-t?. It h t! !va-i: !va-i: : t! It t.. : : tl.r.t i? v t! ? rj't'. .r. Vl - teal C to 1 :c t!.:: i? A: 1 Y.L;.t ii tLe I t V-T.V i u it? Tl ; r? f.r3 la .- "ovcrnir tLcso an:l;c-Lc:::s. r.UT aki: tiii:y "enforced? are the police" po-lice" Or TALT LAKE CITY ALIVE TO THEIR DUTY IX THIS EEfTECT? AND DO TIIEY ENFORCE EN-FORCE THE LAWS REGARDING GAMBLING-HOUSES? GAMBLING-HOUSES? It is a question not hard to answer. Gambling in every form is to be found in the city cf Salt Lake, and there are some of the worst gambling sharks in the country at present living in this city. Salt Lake is a health resort, but these men did cot come here for their health. They came here because be-cause the word had gone forth that "anything goes'' just so it's kept reasonably quiet. But even the reasonably rea-sonably quiet part eeems to hare been partially forgotten for-gotten now. AN ENTIRE STRANGER, WITH NO KNOWLEDGE KNOWL-EDGE OF THE CITY, CAN COME INTO SALT LAKE AT THE PRESENT TIME AND FIND ALL THE GAMBLING HE WANTS, IF IIE CARES TO SPEND TEN MINUTES LOOKING FOR IT. This is deplorable in more ways than one. In addition to taking the bread out of the mouths of this mother and her three younger eons, it is doing the same for many other wires and mothers.' It is keeping capital and industry away from the city, for no investor will put tip. a new enterprise where he knows that his workmen will be preyed upon by gambling sharks. JT IS. HURTING THE CITY IN EVERY WAY. IT IS TIME THAT THE POLICE FORCE OF SALT LAKE WAKENED FROM ITS RIP VAN WINKLE SLEEP AND SHOOK pFF THE FETTERS FET-TERS OF ITS SUBSERVIENCY. LET TnE GAMBLING; AND ALL OTHER LAWS, BE ENFORCED AND THIS CITY FREED OF THE THUGS AND GAMBLERS THAT INFEST IN-FEST IT. Ths Polict nd Gambling. A mother writes The Telegram that two of her sous, the oldest but 19, have contracted the habit of - frequenting the gambling hells in Commercial street and that as a consequence the burden of the family support has fallen on her shoulders. In her letter this woman says that until recently her two oldest boys, of. whom she has five, have helped her greatly in caring and working for the others. For some time, however, these youths, for they are not men, have failed to bring their wages to their mother, instead of that, going into the slums of the city arid spending, or losing it, in the gambling dens that line Commercial street. A strong plea is made by the distracted parent that something be done to mitigate this evil, and to save her boys. She admits that her sons are in the wrong to frequent these places, but says, in ex-J ex-J tenuation, that if they were closed, her boys could not gamble. TLe letter, published M'-- '"y evening, is plainly il repeal of a heartbrokf an, pleading for the icJci-tion of her sot, and for the hard earned : .-jney that rightfu" - " gs to her. UnJer tl: 1 " this mother produce proof V-at Ler l .v .at their wages in these places, |