Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-25
SAN FRANCISCO AND HER HOOD
LUN0.

on Jessie street near First, and brutal,
outraged her. Three OF them, Pat Foys
George Pierson and Nike Driecoll, wsr,
arrested and convicted on charges o
misdsneanor. The charge @. rape en-
tered against them has bssn continued
untll tomorrow. A. the police expect tC
| apprehsnd tho remainder OF the gang
| The woman outraged il said to have
been seriously injured. Francisco
telegram.
As has been not unfrsGu-ntly men
toned for the OBLIGATION of such of our
readers A. are not A. familiar as the old
timers are with the history of things in
California, certain large part OF the
citizens of San Francisco formed them
selves, in 1856, into Vigilance Commit
tee. took the law into their own hands.
and for several weeks administered tho
unwrittsn statutes of Judge Lynch, hang
ing certain offenders and banishipg many
others from that city. The alleged pre-.
text for these acts Of violence was that
the courts were powsrlsss TO protect the
better class Of citizens from political
frauds and personal violence. and that
the seventies and summary processes of
mob law nsedful to the publication
Of the city's moral atmosphere and the
protection OF its citizens from outrage
and murder. A discussion Of the aues-
tions involved is not in order here and
it 10 not = consideration germane 10 the
question itself, that the fact should be
more than mentioned in passing, that
tho Vigilance Committee did, in a very
short time after its organization, degen-
crate into a political machine whose
were to I'LL thu various offices
Of Ban Francisco city and county with
members OF. or avowcd sympathizsrs
with. the said Committee of Vigilance.
But We have chosen TO rsfsr to this mat |
tsr now, not so much to rake up old |
scores and reopen what may well be
rsated as = dead question, as to call at
sntion to the present alarming preva-
encs of crime in that city. Sc abun
liant and constant are the accounts Of
obberies. burslaries, garottings, out
ages upon unprotected women, and Ike
rimss. AZ that the reflection forces it.
elf into notice that if ever municipal
gave warrant 10 an armed up
lsing Of the people, halter in hand, the
ititul pouerlsssness of San Francisco
D stay the tide Of crime, warrants such
direful proceeding. Under the i'm
laws Of California. public
smbling. the only effective restraint to,
r semi harmless resource Of, large
lass Of non-prodUcers. is driven into
laces where none but tho initiated and
esceful few sre admitted. Also under
le laws. the gambling fraternity, the
,ost wary and effective assistants to the
olice in fsrrcting out crime snd bring
lg rogue, 10 justice, are brought into
ntagonism to tho officers Of the peace.
here cannot be any compromise with
,ims-not on the surface, no matter
hat many be done in furthersnce Of an
fcient detective system-but there may
it'll decided prof. be made systematic
with vice. Massachusetts,
Il waged q long and prsposterous,
orse than Ruthless, war with the bust
80 Of dramseIling. Carson, the cap
II of State which licenses gambling,
tenpts to make female prostitution
ID outlswry synonymous terms Cali ]
rnia which, like the majority of the
atss, licenses the retailing of liquors
$ it is qNits wise in doing). attempts a
. futile task of .upprsssing the bust
IS Of the professional gambler with
rds and San Francisco, which organ
d and maintained the Vigilance Com
ttee Of 1856, broadcloth mob reused &
% action by the shooting down of ono
the most ranco-ous Of journalistic
npoonsrs San Francisco. which
aims at the gn.t of Faro and swallows 4
. camel Of the Stock Boards, sits idly
. with folded hands, while her resi-
nts are nightly robbed, her visitors set
on and murdered and plundered, her
: frequsnted streets given DER to the
.der msrcies of hsr'cutthroats, and her
protected women to the horrid A.