Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-17
HurrrInr up ,he Mmenrlum.

The police statl0n-hOuseS were nlleu last
evening by unfortunate females that walk the
streets after nightfall for a livelihood. The
Mayor has issued peremptory orders to bring
in all girls found upon the public thorough
fares after dark, in hopes that he will be able
to break up the pernicious and disgusting
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We hardly know what else the Mayor
could do in the way Of reform than this 1t
is very well known that the masculine part
of humanity in this city has been made per-
fectly pure by the vigorous administration of
Mayor Bishop; all vice and disorder are ban
ished from the community, and there is moth
ing 10 prevent the immediate Inauguration
Of the millennium here, except some "un-
fortunate females who walk the streets
after nightfall for livelihood Or even
if this is not the only thing to stain
the innocence of this city, the prom
inence which Mayor Bishop will give it,
| will make it appear SO, which is all the same.
1t will make people oblivious Of their own
sins, and lead them to thank God that they
are not as these unfortunate women, and this
is as near virtue as many get. No quarter
| Except watch-house quarters) should be given
| to women who walk the streets either before
or after midnight for a livelihood; or to or
from their means of livelihood. The ten hour
system of labor is only allowed to the lords
of creation. For a laboring woman to quit
work before nightfall, would be called flying
in the face of Providence, especially by her
own sex, who--the dear reaturesl-rarely
feel as if they have got enough out of the
seamstress to compensate for her muni6cent
wages. The livelihood Of these and of all
women who labor for it, will often bring
them on the street after nightfall, and within
Mayor Bishops moral-reform clutch. This is
one of the virtues Of the movement. 1t brings
all poor women to level. After an exhibition
in the Police Court and perhaps after being
"sent up for thirty days for want of money
to pay the costs, and after having their pic
| lures taken and hung up on exhibition, as
was humanely proposed by another city
paper it is not probable that the purest
woman in the city could get employment in
Mayor Bishops or any other respectable and
orthodox family, and she would compelled
to go on the street for q livelihood. Thus
Mayor Bishops moral-reform machine will
constantly produce a supply of the raw mate
rial; while, as to reducing the present stock
the movement proposes nothing of the kind
il only puts them in the station-houses over
night and brings them into Court next morn
ing, and makes them pay the costs, thus
making them a source of revenue to the city
bringing good out of evil, and increasing
their necessity for taking to the street.
1t is probable that for woman to be poor
and obliged to labor for livelihood, is, to &
well-regulated mind, quite. as serious al
offense as walking the streets after nightfall
aud it is not to be expected that Mayor BishoI
will regard any discrimination between tn,
two as at all important, and we will not urg,
any; but if any means which may curtai
this great moral spectacle could be allowed
we would suggest that Mayor Bishop caus'
all the bells of the city to ring female alarm
for quarter of an hour previous to nightfall
to warn women that after that time all VIII,
are found ON the street unattended will b.
taken to the station-houses. This courtes,
is extended to the negroes in Charleston
/; We would by no means startle Mayor Bisho
y by pretending that our laboring women ar
as good as the Charleston negroes; yet til
, superior humanity which we claim for tn
people of the North may accord this even t
! WORKING WoHeh'usu hraruD
: 1t is maxim of law that it is better tina
ninety-nine guilty persons should escape jus
t tce than that one innocent person should b
wrongfully punished This, however, ap
: plies only to the lords of creation. All goo
! rules are reversed in their application to wo
! men. II is far better that any number Q
q innocent poor women, who may be in th
: street after nightfall for any of the thousan
e necessities to which the poor are subjee
should be seized in the street by Mayo
E Bishops police, Gagged with lot Of the abar
Il doned, and exhibited in the Police Cour
which would damn any poor woman's cha
IS acter, than that one unfortunate female
% should walk the street with and immori