Show rUB FILL TRUTH ABOUT TIlE THE RED TIED LIGHT 15 AND ITS In tho first tilst place there thero Is a red-light red district It II is lIS for the most part confined confine to Commercial street though the business has gl grown wn beyond tho trio confines o of that thoroughfare It is a n. bust busl- recognized taxed and protected by the present present present pres pres- ent city administration The city gets a revenue amounting to more than a thou thousand and dollars a n. month from rom tho the fallen women who constitute the tho basis of oC the red-light red problem That flint money goes to tho the city treasury treasury- It is used in the general service service- of or tho llio ell city Every citizen or of of Salt Lako shares In the profit derived by the r red light women women women wo wo- men from Cram their crime It is folly for 01 gentlemen to p pretend horror at tho the existence of oC the evil pretend they may do thing to recognize it nothing to legalize It 11 Tho The c city Y administration IS recognizing it It legalizing It It and nd making every cry man In town share in tho the income from It It And this Is a n. condition which has gono gone on hero for tot years years and and in every other city In the country There Is nothing new about it Salt Lake it an and nothing peculiar to So much for tor the pretense that nothing in jn tho the way sway oC or recognizing can be permitted by the city Thero Is another phase of oC It Tho red light district means a n. great number of oC houses In which bad en live houses which arc are visited by men quite as b bad d as the tho women There can be no double standard of at morality between the people who olio keep and tho the people who patronize tho the red- red light district In every everyone one of oC those houses beer whiskey and wino arc sold h ever every nl night ht No license Is paid to tho the city db Houses commonly frequented will sell more mora drink In a night than any saloon T t t h i K ir 1 In n town Drinking goes with visits ltD t to tho the red red- light district district- l The Tho charge chance of oC a dollar H Ii bottle Is la lamade mado made for Cor beer that is worth twenty Uvo cents Inan In an any other drinking place In fn the city An And tho the elt city Is decent enough to take no license for tor this an and Indecent and nd unfair enough nough to permit tho the free treo rate ralo of or liquor in those places while forbidding for for- forbidding or- or bl bidding It In every other place Business men of or tho the city want tant Commercial street for trade It Is a fine lino location It should bo be devoted to legitimate business Tho present character should bo be utter utterly changed changed Thero There isa Isn Is Isn n a district which for business re reasons If Jf for tor nothing noth ing lug else elso should bo restored to honest trade The Tho business mon men 0 of of- the city men of repute and goo good character want Commercial street cleaned out so it can be filled tilled with reputable and useful and antI good business houses house The moralists of the ell city want Commercial street cleaned out because It is Inhabited inhabited Ite by offenders against tho the law ll By cr c every argument argument ment tho trio business men an and tho the moralists should have havo their wa way It Is prett-n prett pretended ed that the tho problem is Where shall the red-light red district go o That doesn't oe nt seem to be a n pertinent question It is not for Cor the eit city or an any reputable man In it to courteously con conduct It to other fields s to Un Una tInd a new location for It it Gambling in the old understanding understanding un un- of that t term term gambling gambling us open as is the business 8 of the re red light district has district has been abolished In Salt Lake Some Somo people once regarded re regarded re- re sar e gambling as a necessity sit to the life JIo of a city That Is error It can be stopped and the elt city In which it Is stopped Is 18 better off The business of the red light district Is 19 not nota a n necessary r evil It is evil but not a necessity It should be bo abolished hc Tho The houses should be closed close to their present Inmates and to their trade Th The women of that craft should be treat treated d preel precisely ely elyas as other violators of the law aro treated No less no no more Certainly they should not bo be licensed The They should hould not bo be protected protested The Tho city Is licensing licensing licens licens- In ing them now no is protecting them So long as ns as the girls pay the they are permitted to ply their I trade rho Tho city takes a a. part of the mone money the tho girls tal take lake e from tho the young youn men of the tho city There you ou are Tho Tho problem Is impossible of or except solution solution except excepting in ing with honesty Ci City officials who lift their hands In hol holy horror at the suggestion that the they are aro locating tho the re red light district In tho the West Vest SIdo Side arc are a a. set of oC arrant h Thc thc hypocrites They say a they cannot cannot cannot can can- not be bo supposed suppose to know It exists They do know now It exists The They take part of oC the mone money der derived from it H. They put that money money or or at least a part of It In Jt-In In tho the public treasury And the they make male all the people good and bad share in tho the benefits of or that cash It has been tho the habit for years can and it is not creditable to the lie city The elt city cannot move the red-light red district to tho the West cst Side nor anywhere else Tho The cit city CAN make mako an end of it and give Commercial street to legitimate and de decent decent de- de e- e cent business An And that is what the city ought to do clo And n now no let us gel get down to some somo more colt cold facts in the case casc It lt isn't a pretty prell thing tiling to talk about It woul wouldn't nt have been talked about if the people had not become convinced that the American Ameri Ameri- can party part had ma made e the establishment of or th the light roil district on the West Side a part o of its party po policy Just policy just as it mad made the breaking S of or the mayors mayor's word in the the case caso of Jim lne Devine a matter of oC party policy But now that the tho city a administration an and the American party lea leaders ers have love provoked pro the dl discussion discussion discus discus- cus- cus sion slon b by their evident purposes and their vcr very astonishing acts the they shall not escape the responsibility responsibility responsibility for It H. In tho the t place the American merican party part chief oC or police pollee months ago announced announce his plan Ian for a in which tho the bad women should be kept and where the they might under control protection protection protection tion and authority o of the city ply their awful trade That plan was discussed but a n. goo good many people who aro are now beaming with approval of oC the councils council's silly amy action on Tuesday night would not treat Mr Pitts Pitt's suggestions seriously Yet nothinG in the tho world worl was ever more serious And I tho the time for tor tho the American party mana managers to I I clear their skirts wa was right then If Ie they ha had said to their chief of or police that a man with such I Ideas of or law and right and civilized procedure ure ha hano had no business at the head of the police department and had driven him from they would have gone gono far to mako make plain what they are arc now pre pre- pretend tend tending Ing But the they did ld nothing of or tho the kind Chief Pitt went tent East and carne came back enthusiastic tlc with his stockade ado idea and openly published again his pet scheme lie Ile was going to clean out Commercial Commer Commer- cial street an and put tho the bad women Into an stockade He was for the West SIdo or any other place Tho The stockade idea was adopted by the American party lea leaders erl just as officially as tho bond proposition or the tho seventy thousand dollar donation to Pat Moran Mayor layor Bransford approved tho the stockade idea and tho the location of oC the place on tho the West Vest Side right where it is now being placed Ho lie was visited vis vis- visited b by West Vest est Side people nn and they reported later Inter that ho had been boen perfectly frank with them Ho lie was in favor of or tho the West Side SIdo location L. 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D Martin l the most prominent and most active and most effective American party member of Oc tho the city council planned tho the whole scheme consulted with tho landlady who has made one fortune in tho Ogden Oden red-light red Rn and is credited with another mado made in Nevada towns Martin was and andIs andis Is tho ho recognized manipulator of or tho ho entire project with with tho the helpful assistance of or Carter who was Cormer formerly In n tho the council and who also is an American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican party man There you ou are arc American party part mayor American party part chief chier of oC police American party part council J leader all working work worle- lug ling for ot the tho removal remo to tho ho selected West Side Sido site Bite and never a word of oC condemnation from any American party part source The thing is tho more amazing because MI Bransford quoted as ns declaring the business o of tho the red light district a necessary ary evil is a man of or perfectly clean life BCe Tremendous strength was given tho lie movement by tho the countenance of oC that ma man n. n Now there thoro has not been a a. piece of paving ln not nol nota a a. rod of ot sidewalk not a length of ot sewer not a foot of ot grading ra but the tho American party has claimed all credit for fOI It Never ever a penny penn of or Improvement can bo be so directly traced to the tho American party part as can the removal of or tho the red-light red district to and its establishment on the c West t Side And never until the city waked to a clamor of or condemnation J 1 too loo lou loud to be Ignored have havo the they had tho grace even to seem geem ashamed of or It And now that the they have been heen caught with tho ho goods on them m tho they tt try to mako a n political al matter of oC It AND it-AND AND TO BLAME I TIlE THE REPUBLICAN REPUBLICAN CAN STATE OFFICIALS Mr r. r himself says In an Dd address re s that th the matter sh should uld not take on the complexion of or poll- poll tics tics and and puts the following political head hend over his hison own o article American Club in fn Favor of or Morality Morality Declares Declares for Decency Decene and Against Establishing ned ned-LI Light Red ht Put Put Establishing of or District Up to Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Bunch Hunch and Attorney General Let us all stick to tho the Issue The Tho lcd lI red light ht district dis Is here herc the business Is un under the authority of or ortho the tho ell city government tho the elt city derives a a. revenue of over a R thousand dollars a a. month from from It It th thell the tho ell city authorities protect tho the business and the pl o O- O plo en engaged a ed In it It the tho American party controls the city government to Authoritative of r tho the city r government the tine most prominent of all tho the American party proposed favored and defended tho the removal ul of or orthe the district to tho the West cst Side to the tho place where vested Interests are already established with their approval The Tho red red-lI red light ht Is in a place much needed by hy bytho tho trio legitimate business interests of or the he city The people now no In that place arc In dally violation vio violation vio- vio lation of the tho law They should be treated as an another any other violators of or law Revenue Hc from rom them should b bo be rejected rejected and and would woul bo be if the city government had any am more virtue than tho the women who pay their licenses It is not the business of or the ell city administration nor anyone anono else to sa say where the tho bad women should ego go It Is not tho the business of or decency nn and law and order to direct tho the location of Indecency and lawlessness and unmeasured disorder er The Tho problem is very simple But it It will not be solved sol because an election Is la coming on and the people of or the re red light district aro are all supporters supporters supporters sup sup- porters of or tho ho American party In Salt Lake LaIH If you people want to discuss this matter hatter at length then try nn and tell tho the truth about it H. |