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Show ' arrested and that the prosecuting: officer shall do his full duty in' prosecuting any person arrested for violating any city ordinance, "The people of Ogden should satisfy themselves that the police officers alone cannot stop secret gambling-, unless they are assisted by men who will be willing witnesses. When the gambling fraternity understands that the order is to suppress gambling, they will be careful as to whom they admit. Every person will have to be vouch-ed vouch-ed for and it will bo hard to get evidence. "I prefer open gambling under police surveillance, so open that anybody can go in and out and see what is going on, if I must choose between open and secret gambling. Then every merchant can see for himself when his employes are gambling. Anybody, even a mother, can go and look for her boy under such system and feel safe in going there. Of course, it would be much better if secret; gambling, as well as open gambling, could be suppressed, but of two evils, if one must exist I prefer to choose the least of the two evils. "But the test 13 on. We will make an honest and determined effort to suppress all forms of gambling, but the whole people must assist in ferreting out the secret places, and the evidence and witnesses wit-nesses must be secured before the officers can break down the doors of any gambling house. How much will the people help? THE RAID ON THE GAMBLING HOUSES. Mayor Glasmann was seen this morning and, when asked who Tvas responsible for the raid last evening, said: 4If no one cares to assume the honor, I will have to accept the responsibility, as I swore '. out the warrants that caused the arrests to be made." Continuing, the mayor said: "Six months ago, when I was installed as mayor, gambling was being conducted beliind closed doors. Officials of the Betterment League waited on me at that time in reference to the suppression of gambling. I told the committee that open gambling was an easy matter to suppress, but the moment open gambling was stopped it would drive the gambling behind closed doors; that I did not fear open gambling when, by the consent of the community, an officer could be stationed at each gambling house to stop the minors from entering and such people where the wives and parents objected. Of course, such gambling would naturally take place with the knowledge knowl-edge of the officers and could be stopped by any person at any time. "In cities like Ogden, where there is a large transient and floating float-ing population, it has been impossiblo to stop secret gambling. A railroad town like Ogden, with the people shifting and coming in daily, such diversion as gambling i3 sought and resorted to, either openly or privately. "I told the Betterment League that if they would create a sentiment senti-ment to show that the people wanted to make drastic efforts to suppress sup-press secret, as well as open, gambling, the city government was ready and willing to aid in the matter, but that it was impossibld for the city, with its small police force, to suppress secret gambling; that every once-in-awhile they would be able to get evidence to swear out a warrant and break down the doors and arrest the parties, but that a new force of detectives would have to be had after each raid and that it would require from four to ten times the police force Ogden had to make a success of even a partial suppression of secret gambling. "The Betterment League officers were of the opinion that simply an order from the chief of police, that gambling is prohibited, would stop gambling. Such instructions were issued to the chief and by the chief and immediately guards were stationed at all of the doors of all the gambling houses and not even officers could enter, en-ter, but the Betterment League officials appointed committees that gained easy entrance and yet the Betterment League officials hesitated hesi-tated to swear out the warrants. Under the law it is no more the mayor's duty to swear out warrants than it is the duty of any citizen, yet in order to bring the matter to a test, in this instance, I swore to the complaints which resulted in the action last evening. It was my intention to act fearlessly in this matter and to do my duty as full? as I could do so and the orders were therefore, to make the attack complete by taking everything in sight. The Betterment League furnished fur-nished tvventy-five assistants who were sworn in as special police officers. of-ficers. The result was that out of about three hundred people visiting visit-ing these resorts, seventy were arrested and brought over by the twenty-five special police and fifteen regular police forty officers all told. It shows that instead of forty officers there should have) been at least one hundred to make the arrests complete. Every person per-son who was a,t these gambling houses should have been taken to the police station, but as it was, three out of every four escaped, and I am sure that these special officers, as well as the police officers, made every effort to bring every person at these gambling houses to the police station. "The law does not make the mayor a detective, or a spy and, so far as I am individually concerned, I shall not again take upon myself my-self the burdens of acting as a detective and spy in ferreting out those who are gambling. ,1 will leave that part of the business to the police force and the Betterment League, with such assistance as the people of Ogden are willing to iurnish. I will make it m3i duty to see that every person for whom a warrant is issued shall be |