| Show ER EER E R TiET IlET UP tip OX ON TIlE RED nEn LIGHT It Is Impossible to mea measure Ure the good s that has been accomplished b by the offices of or tho the count county at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney and the sherl sherif sheriff In cleaning up the tho red light district If It readers of ot The Republican wonder at atthe atthe atthe the energy of or th the crusade let them be advised they would not wonder I If th they could lena know th the horror 0 of the thc condition which existed before the county officers Jot got to work Olk The fhe officials encouraged th vice ice because thc they got a n. ca cash h share o of th the i monc money that vice vico produced The Tho police 1 tho the bad bach w women men fo for lor a monthly fine fino defended them In their horrible traffic took a a. license front from them once a n. month and gave them all tho the protection I i. i the most t cleanly business In th the town could secure i. i No Xo paper In tho the city except ther Tribune could coul t employ words vile 10 enough to describe the tion And of course the tho Tribune Is not going t. t to paint t truly the shameful sins of or it Its chief helpers k the lost loat women and characterless men of tho the under under- world It was horrible There aro are certain limits to that abomination recognized all over the world But with the thc encouragement of the police those limits were Ignored in Salt Lake And the men and women o of Jf the red light district became as arrogant as they ther were Immoral With tho the first night of or the crusade a n. pall fell feU fellon on tho the regions of or that pet factor In the strength o othe ot of ottle the tle Kearns party in Salt Lake The Tho Jail was filled with bad women and the they found the familiar easy city methods did not avail all to protect them when the they fell feU into the hands of count county official To fo the consternation of or the tho city government tho the meo mero formality of an arrest h became came an actual beginning of ot punishment Tho TIle city told the women not to bo be frightened ned to J keep for tor a day o or two two and the trouble would blow over The Tho count county officials told them It was a cleaning up and up-and and the they would d havo kayo to get out of or town or Ot out of th the business And next day dozens of ot them did get out of or orto to town n They lied fled before the they could bo be taken Commercial Commercial Com Corn mercial street which had lad been beon so 80 vile that language describing It would make any paper indecent became became be bo- came so 50 much Improved that one ono could walk tho the length of ot It Jt without seeing a a. woman And that Is Isa Isa isa a condition which Commercial street has not enJoyed enjoyed en en- joyed since tho the Kearns party came Into po power Even In lit fair week there Is an evident Improvement Improve improve- ment merit In the red re region on What hat was once a awl t wl wide op open n district has become astonishingly clean Now ow is S s the time to so 60 o forward with the crusade It was vas begun In good faith falth There wa was no political element in the consideration except that which was interjected b by the Kearns party parly in defending their theIL f. f own Let tho the bad women and their worse meni men i understand the they will have to get out of or town Let 1 I i. i IL f 4 4 i them understand tho they timey will wilt have havo to act et ct utterly ou out o of Commercial street Let them understand decency wants that street and proposes to reclaim It Iron front the desolation of or crime Let Lot them understand that tha the they can not In that avenue a harbor dis- dis to control the election o of tho the ell city an antI and dominate the elections of or the tho state Drive 0 them out and make o them sta stay out Twenty convictions with will jail sentences will have ha the desired effect In the last laRt eft city election there th were at least loaa two thousand fraudulent votes In that Commercial street district The red light carried the cit city two years ago Managers lana 0 of the Kearns party wen were preparing to use tho those e same abandoned women n and their more despicable men mon In the same nefarious work vork l Every cr bad woman was waR a n. r repeater peater Every Ever worse man was a depositor of or fraudulent ballots Every one ono o of them was better botter than five o decent men mci menor or 01 five good women when It came to the decision of or the tho polls No Xo wonder the they were defended b by thu T But aside Rf from that pha phase e of or the case caso they thoy should be he driven en from tho city And the they will be ba baThey Tho They have damned Commercial street long enough The They have havo shamed the cH city as at long us as can be per per- milled The count county officials are determined to tomake tomake tomal mal make o an Ii end of or the tue red light and the power Is 13 well within their hands Arrest them Prosecute them Insist on trials and bo be there theio with the tho evidence e Make Moke the tIme town towi too loo hot hoi for tOI the mistresses es of or the red light and antl the men who ho fatten on their earnings And then let lel the city go after the owners o of the tho bull buildings The Tho city or ordinances mal make o it unlawful to rent rent a house to women for Immoral purposes purpose There Is no state I law a empowering empowering- the count county of officials ot- ot to proceed But there is a good flood ordinance a against offending owners The Tho count county can clean oleal cleanup cleanup up the tho red med light It will be beup up to the city to keep keepit It t clean Salt alt Lai Lake Lako o Is far tar too good a town to have such sucha a Ct district in the center of ot the city Salt Lake Ii is far too reputable to adopt Chief Pitts Pitt's plan for a municipal house bawdy stockade Salt Lake Lako s concerned only In demanding decency and obedience to the tho law lav And tho count county officials have begun and will complete the wor work long ong that line |
