The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-01
RUTLAND's POLLUTION.
A Den Of Infamy---Early Morning Visitors
Pickings for the Police.

A Den Of Infamy---Early Morning Visitors
Pickings for the Police.
Rutland stands on the very brink of an
immoral Niagara, IL she has not already
passed over and been overwhelmed in the
whirlpool of pollution. 1t is no time to
mince matters The time has come when
things must be called by their names, and
come what will they must be so treated,
for, unless some determined effort is made,
Rutland may be given over to the fate OF
Sodom and Gomorrah Once have we
been visited by fire, laying in ruins one
of our most magnificent business blocks
and the chief engineers report says that
the fire was caused by 'overchsrglng a
stove with combustible materals"-but our
citizens know full well the vile cause of
that fire, and for who and what that stove
was overcharged 1t is but a few days
over year ago, that q woman was muir
dered and robbed, an attempt made to con-
ceal the double crime by the added crime
of arson. For this triple crime, John p.
Phair is now confined in state prison
awaiting the execution of the sentence of
death. Need we recall the cause of these
crimcsp Does Rutland want a REPETITION
of this kind of experience If she does,
she is in fair way to have it.
Where is the fault Who is to blame ?
Let the facts answer. 1t is notorious that
dens of prostitution exist, that houses of
designation are in full blast. Does any one
doubt it ? Let them ask the police. Let
them pass through the streets of an even
ing, and see the unrepentant Magdalenes
bedaubed with paint, Haunting their gaudy
silks and pinchback jewelry in the faces of
decent people, and brazenly seeking whom
they may devour. Let them pass on to
Wales street, and there they will see the
outside of one of the most notorious dens
of infamy that ever disgraced so-called
christian community. Surprising they had
passed along about three o'clock yesterday
morning, and what would they have seen ?
We can tell them. They would have seen
three married men coming out of this den,
each accompanied by a ngmph du pare,
aud after time separating, the men to go
to their virtuous homes-the females per-
haps to some other den. Who were these
men One was trader, one boss paint
or, and the other a saloon keeper. We
know their names as well as the names of
their vile companions, and can give them
if necessary--but the necessity does not
exist the police are as well, better in
formed than we are, yet they move not in
the matter. Why Let them answer if
they can.
1t is not pleasant to write of these
things. 1t would be agreeable, If we could
shut our eyes to facts, and believe and say
that all is lovely. But we have duty to
discharge to the community, and that duty
we shall discharge fearlessly, TO the extent
even, of calling names IL the wrong cannot
be righted in any other way. We cannot
remain dumb, and see these dens of prosti-
tuition flourish. our youth enticed by their
unhallowed pleasures, and our married
men almost openly violate the laws of the
state, bring shame upon their families,
ruin their own characters, and further dis
grace Rutland. Let the police act, and
act promptly. Let them, if they cannot
get time otherwise, leave poor whisky to
waste itself in sinks and cutters, where 1t
flows on their approach, and make a de-
scent on these dens of infamy, these pur-
lieus of vice and crime. Let them save
our young men from further pollution
for they can if they will. Let them strike
blow at once-they can do it through the
Wednesday morning vistants to the Wales
street den. A prosecution of these men
and wonderland the police know full well
who they are-would so prick this fester-
ing sore that the whole mass of corruption
would soon be discharged, and Rutland
purified. The laws are ample to this end,
let the proper officers act at once.