| Show THEN AND NOW ITOW AND HEREAFTER timbe was a time and not many years ago when perfect security to life and person and great security to property prevailed in this territory people could sleep at night with their doors unlocked and their doors and windows open even with perfect impunity there was no one to molest them or make them afraid women and ande hildren children could travel from city to city from settlement to settlement and even where there were no settlements in perfect P safety safety no one not noi even Indians would Int interfere erferd with them and no one entertained gny any fear of human molestation it 13 is 13 true theio ewas was a little cattle and horse stealing ever and anon but that seemed to monopolize the e element lement as a general thing all through the territory and of cattle and horse stealing there was then a vast st deal less than there is now there was a time when a man or a woman or a child might travel through the united states or through most of it the great cities excepted without molestation from white men under ordinary circumstances in fact this was the national boast boasi especially aa as regards women property also was in great part similarly secure to the owner that time has gono gone by and a very diff different lerent stale stae of things exists at the present time T this ils lis difference appears to bo be largely due to i two 0 causes the gold and silver disco discoveries verles veries in the western part of the union and the civil war between the north aud ard ar aud d the south whatever other results have flowed from those two noteworthy events one thing is apparent both caused a wave of demoralization to pass over the union the effects of which remain and in that respect both event events have proved a great misfortune and a great loss to the country now all sorts borts of crimes are rire rife and they are not confined to any one part of the union T the he felonious felon iou lou exploits of jack sheppard Bh eppard claude duval and dick turpin are ri in various parts of the country Bu burglary gryl r robbery 0 I 1 ry arson highway and railway robbery on a most daring scale violent and deadly assault rape and murder most foul fou foulard tare laro ate are things of everyday occurrence not alone ayone in the crime stained purlieus us of great and wicked cities but in the country parts as well all ranks of society are evidently more or less tainted from the re refined tined cultured and delicate lady who persistently gives herself up to the unnatural crime of foet foat icide leide with her correspondingly pon refined and cultured husband whose embezzling irregularities uli ull ties and other unscrupulous speculations abstract dollars by the thousand from the funds that pro properly per y belong to others down to the ba burglar the grotter ga the s tage stage or ra railroad lir oad robber robbed tile the f footpad and the common tram tramp py this thia latter character evi evl evidente evidently denti is a product of the hard times of the last three or four year years he is offa ofia of a type typo somewhat different to his relative of Europ european can oan countries diore more intensified and therefore not so meek but frequently mole moie energetic determined and aggressive and consequently more given to active and oid told old criminality bo so far as this territory is is concerned the influx odthe of the more rcck less of tile class known as RS L outsiders has produced to greater or less extent a condition in keeping with that which prevails generally throughout the union A change has come over the spirit of things here as well as in other parts of the country and in both tile tiie change is an unfavorable one it is of a very ry demoralizing character in utah there is much less security to line life person s and property was wont t to 0 be the he case a few years back thefts agrenot are not uncommon burglaries are not gar rot rollings tings are not net unknown nor are highway and stage robberies cattle raising g has become unprofitable beca because u se of the incessant steal lings lugs assaults upon the person prevail more than formerly and women and girls can not perambulate the city even especially at night to say nothing of venturing beyond its bounds with the confidence of security in which they once indulged without disappointment this is h a condition to be confessed but not to be boasted of oa on the contrary it is a matter that demands serious sober thought though t ful conler const conier aeration atlon for the question n butny a turny arises whereunto will 1 u grow that ia if they are not checked in some way or other if they go on as they have been going of late years every individual will feel under the necessity of being continually upon guard for the protection of himself his family arid and his property nothing will be safe brigandage w will III prevail in the country parts and all sorts of crimes will become increasingly common in the cities until the united states State will swill not be the most enviable place to live in |
