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I i : . 8 TRUTH. . I ll TRUTM I BJ Issued WooUly by Truth Publishing Company. H VToitorn Nowspupor Union Ilulldlne, 211 M Soutli Wost Tcmplu Stroot, n Salt I.alco City. j John W. Hughes, Editor and Manager H Enterod Juno 19, 1901, at Suit Lalto City, Utah HI n second-class uiuttar inidor act of Conurosa HI of March 3, 1879' HH Hi Terms of Subscription. ' M ONE YKAIt In ndvatico) $2.00 M SIX MONTHS (In ailvnnco) 1.00 H THREE MONTHS (In ntlvmico) 7S ml PostmaBtora sondliicrsubscrlptlons to TRUTH K U may rotln2! per oont of subscription prleo M n an commission. If H If tho paper Is not dosired beyond tlio dute I subscribed for, tho publication should bo I notlilod by lottortwo woeksor mora beforo I tho torni oxplres. II I Discontinuances. II I Romombor that tho publisher must bo notl- H H lied by lottor whoa n fiubsortbor wishes his taper stopped; all arroars must bo paid In 'nil. Mm j I Requests of Biibsorlbors to havo their paper H I mailed to a now address, to socuro uttou- B tlou, must montlon formor as well as pros- H out uddrois. HI B Address all communications to TRUTH PU11- H LISH1NG COMPANY. Salt Lalto City, Utah. U B Wo hardly sco tho necessity for tho H . H Deserot News retracting a state- H u ment or fact made regarding Son- Bt H ator Kcarns In tho local columns of H H tho paper. Tho retraction, too, laid BJ ' H undeserved strictures on tho reporter H H who wroto tho article. If there was B K anything wrong in tho statement tho BJ K copy reader or tho local editor should B B not havo passed it. BJ H Tho revolution in Russia which BJ H Truth foretold moro than six months BJ 81 ago now nppcars to havo been fairly BJ M and vigorously begun. Wo hopo It will H fL bo entirely successful. Tho present BY IgH ! Russian government Is the worst on BJ 'M tho faco of tho earth. Any change B ;u must bo for tho better. And Poland B int and Finland, may they rogain their B H : freedom and escape from tho clutches B 9 : of tl10 merciless bear. Hi la ' ' BBS' H B H i5ow was It that tho Tribune ceased I its unjust attack on Director General I J I' Whltakor of tho Utah World's Fair B H f commission so suddenly? Tho Trib- B ,m ! uno knew at tho beginning that Mr. B I j ' Whltaker was not to blamo for tho ir- B 1 ' regularities in tho ilnanclal nffalrs of B .11 'It the commission, but it sought to cast B jKl tho odium on him until something B l' liapponed which mado tho Trlbuno B JL,j vory desirous of covering up tho B Sii'l crookedness. m it B M'ty Truth is of tho opinion that as lit- B jl f tlo legislation as possible should bo B ia,k' enacted by tho prcsont legislature. B :!i' 1 Tho laws of tho stato aro In good B W '' shape, and, with a fow amendments B ' meet all requirements. Tho appropria- B J tlons should bo kopt down. In somo flj Kfc i of tho stato institutions they havo B ljU n" tho buildings necessary, In fact Bj fl- somo of them havo more than they JBMrj i v need, and this continual lobbying for V ' appropriations for unnecessary build- f . j Ings In order to havo so much money r spent In tholr respective localities j a should stop. Lot the state havo n rost jWt!" f for a fow years. A largo amount, of money has been appropriated during tho past twelve or fifteen years for buildings for stato institutions partic ularly educational ones and it is time to go a little slow and give tho tax payers somo relief. There should bo somo labor legislation, and legislation enlarging tho powers of cities In the matter of sowers, sidewalks and the opening and paving of streets. But generally speaking it will bo better all around to do as little legislating as possible and to keep appropriations down. Thoro aro a number of bills pending In tho legislature which If passed will liavo tho effect of retarding the state's Industrial development. Tho lawma kers should uso caution In pressing measures of this character. Any law which discourages capital from com ing into a western state Is a .direct blow to progress. Above all things else Utah needs moro opportunities for development and growth. Few of Uioso who havo spent all tholr lives hero realize tho vastnoss of Utah's re sources. Wo have enough of native latent wealth in our mineral zones, In our rich soil, In our manufacturing facilities to make prosperous a popu lation five times as great as it is to day. An effort to strike at tho whole state because of somo grievance against one company or corporation ennnot but prove Injurious. Tho idea of tho North Sea court arbitration sitting at Paris, allowing Russian ofllccrs to testify on their honor without being sworn is very funny. A Russian offlcer Is taught to Ho and deceive. It is part of his training. Whether sworn or not lie will lie just tho same. Perhaps that's why tho court didn't take the trouble to swear them. That phantom tor pedo boat they tell about Is probably still cruising in tho North Sea, but how it did scaro them! Tho bill beforo the legislature pro viding that a portion of tho western part of tho Uintah reservation be ac quired by tho stato and kept as a stato park should, wo think, receive fa vorable consideration. Tho site for tho proposed park Is about 20 miles long by 15 miles wide and is by nature a beautiful spot, well wooded and with an abundance of fine springs. It is an ideal place for a public playground, tho value of which would uo appre ciated by future generations. A man who will steal from' Simon Bamberger Is a pretty mean follow. According to tho Herald of Thursday ono of his clerks Is a defaulter to the amount of ?1,G00 and Mr. Bamberger not only will not prosecute, but says If tho misguided clerk had confided in him ho would havo made tho shortage good out of his private purso, and we believe ho would. It would not have been Mr. Bamberger's first generous act of a similar kind, either. SALT LAKE CITY NOT A WICKED PLACE. Is Salt Lake City a bad town? Is it a place whore. law is. not respected, where tho social and moral virtues aro held lightly, where tho better class of citizens aro in the minority or are indifferent to their duties? To read somo of tho statements that have been made recently In the daily papers, tho views of persons who, while well meaning, are not well informed, one might bo led to the con clusion that this city is a hotbed of vice and corruption, a location not a good home for the most desirable class of citizens. Such a conclusion would not only be false, but absurdly unjust and to tally without support of facts. Salt Lake City today is better and cleaner, both morally and socially than most other places of Its size In the Unit ed States, either east or west. In vestigation of existing conditions show that to be the fact. No ono ac quainted with the world as it Is, will for a moment expect that in a city of nearly 80,000 population therej will be no gamblers, no criminals, no dis solute persons, no degraded wrecks of humanity who live only by prey ing upon the credulous, innocent and weak. Representatives of all the un desirable classes drift into or develop with every town of any Importance. They aro part of the necessary evils of highly strung civilization. So long as humanity remains what It Is, these wo must havo with us. The problem is, how best to regulate, control and mlnimizo tho evils. Now let us look directly Into local conditions with regard to some of tho charges that have been mado against the city and compare existing conditions with those of two years ago, when a strenuous attempt was mado to run tho town along "re form" lines. First, as to gambling. Two years ago, In a spasm of civic morality, the former mayor and chief of police started out to close all tho gambling houses. As a result the games were carried on secretly behind locked door3, with an elaborate system of peep holes, Inner and outer guards and other precautions that made it practically impossible for an offlcer of the law to find out anything which would be sufficient to convict the par ties conducting the places where tho l nbllng was done. This developed brace" games, where the player who believed ho was taking a chance was really robbed of his money. It also resulted In scores of men being giv en "knockout drops" and stripped of all their valuables beforo they re gained consciousness. In either caso it was virtually Impossible for the of ficers to secure any evidence that would lead to conviction of tho of fenders or assist tho victim hi recov ering his money and property. Un der tho persent administration there aro a few places where gambling is carried on openly. They are situated In a section of the city that Is not often resorted to by citizens who havo no desire to indulge their sport ing propensities. Every man who goes into ono of these houses to play the various games of chance knows exactly what risk he is taking, mere ly tho per cent that Is against him. There has never been any intimation of hold-up or crooked work. Police men come and go at all hours and n I keeper of a gambling house dare re I fuse admission to any officer Th, I Is by no means an Ideal state 0f J I fairs, but It is far better, far safe ' I than driving tho sporting men to cover. You cannot drive them out of tho city entirely, every municipality that has endeavored to do so has failed. To see that every game is on the square, that no minors are al lowed to play, that no drunken dis turbances occur is all that can be done so long as a large per cent of the citizens thirst to gain money without effort. The gambling spirit enters I into every phase of life, not even the H churches aro exempt from it, for sell- B ing chances on articles of value for B which lots are drawn is part of tho H program of many church fairs. 8 Considering next the social evil, the betterment of conditions has been equally marked. When women of the I town were scattered throughout the I hotels and rooming houses in every B portion of the city it was out of the B question for the officers to prevent I robbery of drunken men and annoy- I ance and insult of good citizens who I were often tenants of tho same build- lngs. The present administration I has done more to check the evil and M keep those without virtue confined to H ono section of the city, where they are ( kept under close supervision than ha3 I any other administration of recent years at least. Robbery by one of these women Is now Infrequent and when It does occur, tho police depart ment has nearly always succeeded In recovering the money. Much has also been said by the daily papers of young girls wandering about tho streets after night, subject to insult from apologies for men. Cases of this kind that have been brought to tho attention of the authori ties havo been promptly and string- H ently dealt with, but instances of Bj young women receiving insults unless m they Invito them aro rare. I As a general rule the streets of Salt Lake are less disorderly after night than aro the streets of towns of ono half this city's size. The town is not bad, tho citizens generally are law abiding, tho small criminal ele ment is held well in check and no one except a born knocker has any reason o pronounce Salt Lako an undeslreable place for a home. I ii PRESS ASSOCIATION WILL GO. j National Editorial Association Will I Visit Lewie and Clark Fair. l! A reunion of all the stato press as- i sociatlons on, tho Pacific coast is planned to bo held at Portland during tho Lewis and Clark Centennial in connection with tho oxcurslon of the National Editorial association, which will visit Portland after concluding its sessions at Guthrie, O. T. R Tho original plan of tho National as- II sociation was to meet at Guthrie on 1 1 May 20, and proceed from there to Portland, but as this would bring the editors to the fair city about the opening date, Juno 1, It is likely thai the convention will be postponed, ana the National association visit the iw U B