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Show Straight Talk During the past week walking delegates, "business "busi-ness agents," "boomers," floaters, and others of their kind, whose main purpose is to create trou ble in a community by stirring up strife between employers and employees, have been unusually active; and while the only public demonstrations have been made in front of one or two places, a strenuous attempt is being made to so organize organ-ize all of the trades that on a moment's notice the community could be thrown into such turmoil as has marked and marred other cities as prosperous prosper-ous as this. It is not our purpose in this article to discuss the merits or demerits of either side of the question ques-tion as between the decent laboring man and tho decent employer, but irrespective of either, wo are In favor of law and order, and proper protection for the rights of any citizen. That any legitimate business should be jeop-adized jeop-adized because a cluster of nondescripts are allowed al-lowed to gather in front of that business house and obstruct the sidewalk night and day, is a shame and an outrage, and the statement attributed attrib-uted to the man who is supposed to do his duty as the chief of police that he is powerless to rem-edy rem-edy the condition under the present laws sounds like the subterfuge of a coward, or orders from higher up. If the latter is true, it is because tho "higher up" has a bee in his political bonnet, which though it may still be buzzing, Is eternally dead. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that there in no state law against a boycott, we don't know of anything that would prevent the arrest of itinerant itin-erant floaters for vagrancy, and if Police Commissioner Commis-sioner Park or Chief of Police Grant, or both have a spark of such courage as is expected of men in their positions, it will not be long before be-fore Salt Lake City will again continue to progress pro-gress along the peaceful lines that have marked its course uninterruptedly free from those who won't work and try to prevent others from earning earn-ing an honest living. We dislike to descend to the vernacular, Mr. Park and .Mr. Grant, but what is the matter with you two birds? Are you just plain afraid, are you playing politics, or are you trying to shift tho cut? We are not informed as to which of you is taking orders from the other or from what source, if any, you are getting information regarding your duties, but as police commissioner and chief of police po-lice in the present trouble, you are both meriting everything that Is being raid about your adminls-tratlon adminls-tratlon by the fair minded citizens of the city. Now, if ever, you have a chance to redeem your records as the respective heads of a thoroughly thor-oughly inefficient police administration, and we would like to believe that vou will do It, but you won't. If you do, we will be the first to offer our congratulations, and support you in anything you undertake for the law and order and peace of this good old town. The current report that the Utah Light and Traction company has purchased the Salt Lake & Los Angeles railroad, thereby acquiring Saltair. is most welcome news, if true, for there have been grave fears that those who have mismanaged misman-aged the resort for so long, would continue to conduct it during 1915, when so many tourists are expected. For a long time the resort has been operated, without regard to the comfort or health of patrons, pat-rons, or the common decencies of life, and if the Traction company has taken it over it means that the railroad and resort will be perfectly managed, and the lake, the beach, a" avillon cleared of the filth that has always been a part of the place. We believe there has never been a public resort, where such vile, insanitary conditions have existed, ex-isted, and while there Is nothing definite as to whether or not the deal has been closed, there seems to be enough fire under the smoke, to" warrant war-rant the belief that the property has been, or is about to be transferred. And if it is true, the community owes the Traction company a vote of ft thanks for having saved the city from the curse that the present management of Saltair has made tho resort. As we understand it, a summer resort is meant to be a place of comfort, and, not "a comfort station," sta-tion," and while it would bo quite an innovation to go out there and bathe in unpolluted water; and lunch, or dine, or dance without coming in contact with the "national airs" with which the place has reeked so long, perhaps the natives could become accustomed to the new order of things' in time. |