Show MUNICIPAL management AND MORALS IN the report of the committee on p police to the national prison congress at lurg is an item worthy of particular cular notice it la Is that police super ten dents declare that the chief dis barbers berg of good police management are I 1 licentiousness and gambling at ato to the two public disturbers disturb ers last earned the public is fairly well in formed the progress of crime in this terri y is typical on that subject and agnee the superintendents of police ve deg neglected lecter to explain exactly how bow hit thit that licentiousness and gambling 4 WM re two of their chief disturbers disturb ers we ul do so go that our local gentlemen in uniform may riot not be left in doubt as an to ahe true meaning of the report the public may presume it if they tw that the thrust is in intended for them if the inference that they are in league with the lewd women and the gamblers 40 0 o thwart and combat ahr honest i borts of their peace officials to enforce i ell ped order and good morals fits them v they may wear it in the meantime V ve suspect the superintendents meant ig I 1 nothing of this kind though bey iggy may have had some reason for it wp WB are quite sure this precious in i besides being more or less of confession of their own sins was in tended for the particular benefit of their babor in office prom from the time the gambling social evil began to take root in this city and ogden their main subsistence has come through ways and means which ofil officials claim themselves have provided or encouraged for example when the city of ogden became liberal in her municipal regulations a place was established under the same name of a novelty theatre the purpose of which was to entertain the low characters that were expected to rush to ogden on learning the news of its change ot of politics the pro gramme of regular business was made appropriate to the design the women performers were all a cypriano cyprians cyp rians iaus who between acts followed the regular practice of selling beer at a dollar a bottle among the male portion of the audience this was drunk in the auditorium boxes whose curtained fronts served likewise as screens for other nameless indecencies decencies in that might suggest themselves to such a high toned company owing to a pressure of policy induced by an official visit from the united states marshal of the territory ter rHory there was a pretense made of purifying the establishment in the course of which the sale of beer was prohibited by erdl nance the concern notwithstanding is running today on the original planT pl anThe be ordinance is still on the hooks books A number of the ogden potice police were of the house before the ordinance was pawed passed and it is reported that at this date a policeman may be seen in the boxes almost any night with a lewd woman on his lap drinking the pro bribed beer which has been sold regularly in the house without the slightest protest from these protectors of the peace to others for a dollar a bottle but as it is generally suspected to them free on the score of good will the gambling business was run on precisely the same plan the police have had the same freedom of the establishments of which they have availed themselves with corresponding liberality toward the proprietors when salt lake underwent her political revo revolution ution the same sort of a house was at once set up iu in this city it is in full blast now the women employed employ eq there are of a similar character inside and out of the establishment syte matiu matle lawlessness is 18 flaunted in the face of the public against the ordinances its ita walls seem to be sacred barriers but the city nevertheless has a special officer detailed to the premises ps it is said that officers are frequenters of the place Is not this the sort of hindrances the superintendents of police were describing when they said the hief disturbers disturb ers of police management were politics licentiousness and gam bling the report also states that in large cities it is not possible to control these disturbers disturb ers 11 when we see some large city officered with braved brave mora men where the public prosecutors sad and judges wire are also men of the same high black stamp of character and hear bear them sv say that licentiousness and gambling can not be controlled we will believe them no other testimony will hold |