Show f. f FOR FIFTEEN MORE POLICEMEN e r Possibly more policemen are needed 4 C for Salt Lake Lahe But that is not ther the f r first need The The need of oC a chief is ahead of all aU other needs It is the p great thing thinS demanded and needed by byI bythe I t the people Our people know that They They are I fully fu- aware of the utter and aud astounding astound astound- t j ing of Tom Pitt for a e. e f. f place at the head of the police pollee de do- doI department det I I or or an any other department excepting his proposed stockade The Theman t I man Is unfitted absolutely for the place 1 that has bas been given ghen him First he be hasn't any definite regard for law Jaw and never did have No r company company com coni- pany of men can cnn be rightly Inspired by bj the precept or influence of such a h.- h. man mail A stream can not rise higher r tl than an its source No body of ot policeS policemen police police- S men can be expected to pay honor to law Jaw and to pUblic when r respect opinion t t their their chief doesn't nt care a hang bang for s ei er Never In all aU the Ule history of the city has the police department been in so bad had a n condition as now Never NereE havethe have havethe the men cared carell less for their duties V Never have bare the they looked so indifferent and anti acted so defiant There are good t men wen on the force and they are the theA theA A A butt and Joke of the boys bos who are lh there re for political pull and care nothing nothing noth noth- ing for discipline and merit the merit the bulk of the force The Kearns Reams gang has infused into all of them tho the notion that political favor is the stepping stone stono to place on the the force and the wa way to remain there They Tiley find that doctrine verified in the toe person and position o ot their I chief hief They read it in their public papers And the they have o naturally let the tho police force pt of the city drop to toita its us lowest level le Here is ono one little incident There I is a spasm of spitting anti-spitting anger Men Ien r are being arrested for spitting on the sidewalk A A. man who spits on the 1 sidewalk should bo be punished of course jk But Bul there thero are men on the police pollee force I who violate that order ever every day k Until the policemen can be prevented violating the law the they should not be t required to a arrest rest other offenders ft There ought to be no increase in L the size of the force until there Is aL a n aI nl l I decided increase in the efficiency and J the tho conduct and the spirit of or the men mer L S. S who are there In other words there should be no nc increase until there thore is a real chief chic a at atthe t 5 the head of the department i |