Show I SHAMEFUL CONFESSION Torn Tom Pill Pitt chief of police exponent of tile the can party policy makes the shameful confession that lie he is iS incapable of handling the red light evil lie TIe declares his sympathy with the movement now inaugurated for lor driving bad women out of town and hopes Sheriff Emery may be successful Vet Yet he hc didn't do 10 it himself There no never noer er was a day ay when the chief of police coul couldn't nt have Im reformed Commercial street stroet with a wor word He TIe could have issued one order that would have made an cn end of a condition so bad no paper will describe it so menacing that the safety of the public lUbliC was in iu danger And he lie published instead his plan pIau for a stockade S With few exceptions the III men en of the police department are capable and faithful officers But they are commanded by a chief notoriously and matchlessly incompetent Backed b by a party machine that pretends to uplift the American home while protecting the bad women and aud their worse hangers on TonI Tom Pitt has fostered a a. condition which amazes the city and proves both his unfitness and his party's hypocrisy Let all honor be paid laid to Willard Villard Hanson the count county attorney for his manly declaration of purpose in cleaning cleaning- out the red light district All honor to Sheriff Emery and his loyal faithful men for their stern discharge of duty They have haye with six men nIen scattered consternation in In the ranks of the lie underworld They have without effort filled the jail with offenders against decency and law The police department with the boasted George Sheets with half a dozen plain-clothes plain In men en all the time with a uniformed department has been unable to check the growth of the red-light red evil evit Let the community thank the county officers ers for their heroic stand S Let the county authorities understand the city is with them Salt Lake shudders at the idea of a stockade Our people are American citizens and the lie municipal bawdy house did id not express their sentiment They blush at the police chiefs chief's confession of helplessness They rhey should speak Sleak their approval ap ap- ap- ap oval 11 of the tile county authorities who are enforcing the law Months ago Governor GO Cutler made the rounds of the old red-light red district in company with officers of the Juvenile court What he found then appalled ap ap- ap- ap palled him him him-as as well weIl it might Inight lIe He appealed to the police department to correct the evil And the American party managers laughed at him as did the fallen women with whom those managers were in partnership As if to add defiance to their scorn for his appeal the they planned the stockade and proceeded proceeded proceeded pro pro- with a million dollar investment in in the most shameful enterprise ever eyer dreamed in an American city How they disgraced the lie name American Ameri can Call which they had a to their party parly When the people began fighting the stockade idea they found conditions so vile so harmful so dangerous that no way half-way measures c uld he be consi considered ered There was no safe place this side of utterly and completely driving the had bad women out And since the thc police department sine the whole machinery of the city was powerless the county authorities were appealed to And the end is coming coining The women of the underworld with their far more vile men will have to get out of town There is no safety here for them no theIl no m matter where they they may mar seek harborage Let them understand that No Ko mutter matter where they hide they will be e found Salt Lake is too small for them Never e cr mind the charter of the investment company that promoted the stockade That shabby pp paper will give ive no ri rights to protect crime It was secured in fraud It records the dishonor of the incorporators Whether it is kept or lost it is without value e. Outlaws do business without a charter right ight if civilization permits it A thousand women of the underworld have been their stained crime-stained incomes with the city of Salt La Lake e. e A thousand of men more vile have ha been their advertisement The American party managers ers have been protecting all them of-them have been making their theil commerce commer e as safe as any other business have been using the whole abandoned troop in elections until elections until that evil has grown too great for the tho city to control And the un underworld underworld under under- er- er world has ordered decency to move e on S And the reply i of decency is the county attorneys attorney's warrant of arrest S No Xo matter who started this crusade No matter who keeps it up The American party's city government could coul 1 not correct the evil The file American Ameri AnIOn can call party's organ fought in der delouse defence n of crime And i lost The rhe red-light red district and the red-light red denizens will have to go o. o I 5 S 5 1 1 |