Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-02
THE TOWN ACT, TIRE BOARD OF
TRC4TEES. ETC.

Civilization makes and costs money.
You can't keep a town from going back
to Filth and scrubbiness without constant
policing and rubbing-up, any more than
you can keep a herd of horses or hogs
or goats from breeding back to wildhess
and runtiness by letting them 60 at loose
ends and attending 10 their oHn family
selections. You mast weed your garden
and cultivate your fields, or they will
"go back on you and breed pig weeds
and grease-wood. We hsve got n town
government here now, good one,
framed on good, economical plan and.
as We believe, excelleItly Offered.
Complaint was made OF the Act tina. il
took the election of the Board CT Irus-
tees out OF the hands of the people and
named its members. Perhaps, OF gen
eral principles this complaint was we'll
founded-but those principles are merely
general, and, In view of the character Of
the gentlemen selected 10 FL the Board.
not a. all worth coutendiDg for. Since
that Board began its work il has done
three things about whose doing there is
more or less controversy: One Is the
impending ordinance whereby cattle,
horses and other animals are prevented
from running at large; the second Is the
fre-organizins ordinance which provid-
ed for the selection OF the chief ensi-
neer b. the Board; and the third is Tie
house Of iIl-faGe ordinance. The first
is objected TO 10y people who you'd stop
all progress .ad public cleanliness
wherever i: costs them cent or makes
actively; the second was, We reckon,
wisely repealed: for though We liked it
and thought it likely to produce the
needed order and discipline in TIE De
partmers, yet i. made : feyerish state of
affairs and bred a Dissatisfaction that
had better be allaved unless at too grea;
q sacrifice; the third, the Prostitute Act,
We cannot but regard as uuDise and I'M
practicable. There are q thousand cues
tons involved in the consideration OF
this matter, such as the rights of prop
erty, etc. which We don't care TO dis
cuss; but that there is a certain very Oh
vious measure OF injustice in IN ordi
nance which makes outcas.s o., and as
signs certain district and circumscribed
quarters to, the women of the town, Is
a fact, and a very hard fact at that. In
a communication which appeared in the
APPEAL Of two or three weeks ago from
one Of the Frail Sisterhood the fact was
set forth that since the passage OF the
ordinance in question the blocks as
signed to houses Of ill-fame had been
got into "a corner" and that a compli-
ance with the law was virtual Danish
ment Of the women from the city. And
here is where the shoe pinches in GER
tain quarters; here is what has prompted
the sports to move in line toward a
breaking down of the Town Incorpora-
ton Act. To deal with the matter with |
out circumlocution. the sports who
represent saloon men and not a few
others-say that any enactment which |
threatens to drive the women out Of town !
threatens themselves with great pecunI- |
airy injury. The wages Of sin run
Io1nd in a current, and they are i'll the |
current. In other words these bad
houses are regarded by very hard-think-
ing and depraved men-and they are not
= very small! minority in this community
purely from a business standpoint.
Vice cannot afford 10 have virtue dictate
all the terms of It's existence. This is a
sad, yea. lamentable, state OF affairs;
but it exists. More than one half the
business Of this town, mercantile and
other, depends more OF less nearly upon
the vice-facilities Of the place. Look at
the whiskey-mills and count the money
they spend among the merchants; and
look at the sports that make business
good among the saloon-keepers. And
then look beyond the sports to the indi-
rect source Of their largest thriving.
We are aware OF what We are saying
End Of how We are dealing with . very
delicate subject. But such subjects
loose none of their delicacy by being