Show T TAKE KE THEM l OUT O OF POLITICS I About the first duty of or the legislature legisla ture tur which shall shall convene convene In SnIt Salt alt Lake Lak S this winter should be to take lake the police and fire departments of oC Salt L Lake ke out ui of ot politics This can be done b by the establish establish- munt of ot a police and fire lire board nonpartisan nonpartisan non- non partisan in character appointed b by the governor co and endowed with the authority to handle those departments administer their affairs appoint their ex executive e cuU officials and prescribe therl the rl rules es b by which the they will be bo governed It should hould be ono of the thc first concerns S of oC the he state to get a n police department depart depart- m ment nt which will devote Its 1 to the p police lIce duties of ot the city and take take- it S out of oC politics entirely It can be done effectively If Ir put under the control of ot ofu u a partisan non board It Is the tho police department were department were relieved of or the work which was Imposed upon It Jt Inthe Inthe in inthe the recent campaign Good policemen ila have enough to do o attending attending to r to their r f i police pollee business and they do not relish the thc Imposition of oC such t tasks jk aa as were cre laid upon them b by their masters In dragooning the into the service of ot a 0 political party part Good Goo policemen can con be depended upon to do their dut duty to detect crime to preserve preserve pre pre- serve the peace to enforce th the law Jaw only when they are left len free to do their duty When they are under so direct and vicious a control as that of ot November No 6 C 1906 thc they will be far short of or realizing tho the Ideal character of ot policemen and anti will be poorer servants ser ser- rants of the tho public for the ver very reason that they are made to work In tho the In Interest interest In- In terest of or a R portion of tho the public and against tho the rest instead of oC doing the work for or which they are presumed to tobe tobo tobo bo be chosen an and for which they certainly certainly are aro paid This movement is in line with the progress j of other oilier cities The establishment establishment establish establish- ment nent of oC a board of oC police and fire Ire control con con- tol has marked the legislative work of nearly overy every state In the thc Union Utah has arrived at tho the place anti time In her development where the police department should not be the arm of ot the disreputable element in the civic forces Such work a as that dIctation dictation dictation dicta dIcta- tion to the tho fallen women of uC Commercial Commercial Commercial Com Com- mercial street should hould never nevel be known again hero Such work as that ot of drilling the bad men of at the thc town into tho the way of voting tho the American ticket has hns left a bad impression and It ought not to be repeated The safety of oC the city tho the goo good of government and tho dignity of the departments departments de de- de- de themselves call for the establishment of oC a 0 board of police and lIre fire control and the legislature should answer th the demand IJ by complying with It |