The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-08-05


Havana. was taken sick with the fever soon
after his arrival At New Orleans and died.
Physicians offered as to the character Of his
disease, some insisting that it was yellow
fever and Others declaring it jaundice.
Tuesday night German residing near the
boarding house where the Englshman was
taken sick died from an unmislakablc case
of yellow fever. The city is in excellent
sanitary condition and the Board of Health
has taken active to prevent the spread Of the
scourge. AT Matamoras, Mexico, just across
the river from Brownsville, Tex there are
now 400 cases Of fever and the death rate is
greater than at Havana. Two Judges Of
the Supreme Court are sick, the Attorney
General has left aud the functions of the
court are suspended.
The Argus was mistaken when it
predicted that the officers would raid, and is
mistaken in saying that the officers are
rading, the several habitations Of cyprians
in the city. The officers of the city have
nothing whatever to do with the raid !;
States Attorney Damrou has sworn out
the warrants and Constable John Sheehan
served them. The officers of the city know
too well that a systematic raid would but
create stencil without doing anything to-
ward abating the cause, would but disturb
the filthy slough and cause it to break out
of the narrow bounds in which judcious
management, close Watching and prompt,
decisive action have held it. The officers
of the city recognize the fact that success.
full restriction is better than rash, bungllng
and necessarily totally futile attempts at
suppression, and the officers of the city are
too contentious to allow their better
judgements to be conquered by desire to
rake in little very filthy ucre in the form
of fees for arrests and conviction.
The effort of Chief Myers to sup
press the institution of vice at the corner of
Fifteenth street and Commercial avenue
has been successful the inmates have fled !;
the haunts which knew them to the dis
pleasure of many good people will know
them no more The chiefs object in sup
pressing this institution was to prevent the
spread of the evil beyond the limits to
which it has heretofore been restricted !;
to confne it to a small district where ii can
be closely watched and ruled with an iron
hand. This Obj ct was commendable, be-
cause it was as near to abolishing the evil
as the authorities of any city can reasona-
bly, expect to come, and because its accom-
plishment was not offensive to public decen-
cy. With the suppression Of the Fifteenth
street institution the chiefs efforts ceased,
and 1t was the intention that with this case,
which furnished entertainment for the
vicious minded for nearly a whole day,
the airing OF the foul interior of such
places should cease. But it seems that the
act dictated by reason and regard TOR the
public good has been taken as a signal
for general raid against all such institu.
tions in tina lower and upper portions of
the city. Thursday several women from
Walnut street were brought INTO court and
fined. Yesterday the mistress of one on
Thirteenth street was brought into court
and fined. To-day the head Of The Fifth
street mansion is to appear in court. The
raid is conducted by States Attorney Dam.
ron under the state law, and it may be
that he too is actuated exclusively by a
desire to promote the public good, but
whether he is governed by reason or not is
open to serious doubt in the light of expe-
rience. Experience has shown that these
raids are not conducive to the public good
that, so far from lessening the evil they
cause 1t to thrive with renewed vigor, lust as
an offensive weed-patch thoroughly har-
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friction is possible abolition impossible;
that attempted abolition is worse in its
effects upon public morals than
entire indifference on the part
of the authorities would be. The object
Of all prosecutions of criminal should be to
protect and improve society in general, sud
when prosecution fails to do this it is worse
than Intellectual, it becomes persecution to
the victim and corrupting influence to
public morals. Like vulture disturbing
rotten carcass and filling the air with a
stencil, the persistent breaking open of the
pits of fallen virtue by the rash hands of
an overzealous, If not merceuary, officer of
the law, fills the moral atmosphere of
community with an unwholsome odor; and
also like the vulture, the officer in ques-.
ton often seeks only to satisfy his own
wants, seeks only the few paltry dollars in
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