, 1872-11-14

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have entirely recovered their self pos
session, and are determined to go for
ward in the path Of duty Let our citl-
zens petition our City Council at it's next
sitting to pass an Ordinance declaring
all houses of prostitution, and all GAM
bling saloons, whether public or private
nulsances, and provide for their removal
beyond the city limits; and thus remove
the cause of the evil at once, instead of
endeavoring to arrest the spread of its
effects.
Know you not that so long as the
cause remains, tn effects will follow?
You can never cure the effects until the
cause Is removed. We do not wish Won
to infer from this, that we consider the
passage of City Ordinance No so and
81, as premature. Or that an Ordinance
removing all such nuisances beyond the
limits OF the city, should have taken
precedence Of those. On the contrary,
~ - 'ii''t TIC ihahHeT, Eine and
place for the commencement Of the ari-
tat1on of this subject, was Just as it
should have been, and that the pen that
lndited City Ordinance No. 80, was
guided by a higher power than the hand
that held it. And that only by the pas
sage of that Ordinance could the peo-
pie of Seattle have been aroused from
the moral lethergy into which they had
fallen, and brought to realizing sense
of their true condition. And no doubt
our city fathers, seeing that further ac-
ton was required to prepare the city for
Its final cleansing, by removing all such
establishments beyond its limits. DEEM
ed 1t necessary to bring out before tho
people those in high places who are Hv-
ing in RIGHTEOUSNESS and debauchery.
Thus letting the people see who it is
thar is responsible for the existing state
of the morals of Seattle; and so came
manfully up to the work, and passed
City Ordinance No. 80. lia.
The name of Seattle has become a
by-word, and a reproach, SO much so
that strangers coming into the Territory
to settle, shun it as they would the gates
to hell. Why say they! We understand
that the keeper of Bsothel, boasts that
he rules the town, and that no one dare
to speak disrepectfully of him. Much
less to ignore his influence. No indeed!
say others, will never take my family
into community that is ruled by such
a man-why, what sort of apeople have
you in Seattle, that such thing is
tolerated. Is it really so, as he says,
that he rules Seattle, and that none of
the leading men dare to go against
him? Well then! 1 will seek some
other locality for my family. Others
when asked, where do you think of
settling replied; had thought of set
ting in or near Seattle; but I under
stand that it is very corrupt place
being under the control of man that
keeps house of prostitution, and who
glories in his shame, and that there is
not virtue enough in the place to drive
him out, and reform the morals of the
place, nothing would entice me to take
my family there. 1t may, as you say
make large and thriving place in time
but money couldn't hire me to take nv
children into such place. But new
comers are not the only one who are
afraid to take their children to Seattle.
Many farmers whose sons and daughters
need more advantages of education
than they can get IN the rural districts
where they reside, would gladly avail
themselves of the opportunity afforded
by our Territorial University to give
them liberal education, but say they
We cannot expose our children, to the
debasing influence of Seattle. Just
look here, said one staunch old farmer.
whose sons were growing up around
him; if the people of Seattle would only
just clean out Pinnell and his whole
tribe, that University would be con-
stantly crowded with students, but We
aint a going to send our boys there to
be caught in that He'll trap.
If Seattle wants the University sus e,
tanned she's got to clean out such
places. Such is the feeling among the,
farmers, and others in our Territory.
Which, facts are sustained by the pres
ent condition of the University, But
very few boys from the country being
among the students. The boarding
house nearly useless, there not being
boarders enough to pay one for keeping
it. People of Seattle, how long shall
this state of thing last? 1t is for YOU
to say whether our beautiful city shall.
as J. L. B. says, become huge Brothel,
reeking with disease and pollution, or a
populous and thriving city, noted for
the purity of its morals, the nobleness
and uprightness of its inhabitants, az
well as our prosperous condition of our
Territorial University. There is no
help for it. Either these ulcers that
are eating out the vitals of our city
must be removed, or Seattle must 90
down, and the University remoySd to
some other locality, where the people