The morning call., 1892-05-19
WHOSE GIRLS, WHOSE?
From What Homes Shall They
Go to the Dive?
not FROM YOURS, OF COURSE.
The CremOrne Will Snatch ALI the
Girls 1t Can Find.
HINY ARE NOW III HAPPY HOMES,
But They Will Be Dragged Down to Sin
and Shame - Close the
Vile Resort.

aBut ia the case of refusal of such consent
amor, application, said Board Of Police Conn
,,,issioners shall grant the same upon the
agritten recommendation Of not less than II
citizens Of San Francisco OtcninO real estate
Ia the block or square ia ichici said business
of retail liquor dealers is TO be carried oI'''
Strike those words from the liquor license
order. gentlemen of the Board Of SuperVi-
sors, and you will win the regard OF all the
decent citizens of san Francisco.
The Police Commissioners ask you to do
H. The public demands ii.
Nothing remains for you to do but to act
In the right manner. Public faith in city
officials is on the wane. You can help TO
restore it by this one act, for by it You will
close the worst of the erime-hatcheries Of
this city,
If you did nothing more by this act than
10 close that hdeous public nuisance, the
CremoTne, you would accomplish great
good.
This Is not htgh-license movement It
Is not the work Of any religious orGaniza-
ton 1t is simply an agitation in behalf Of
good government and good morals.
The people demand it.
They have shown that by hundreds of
letters to THE CALL upholding it in its
good work. They have stood this dive evil
long enough.
Why should San Francisco be behind
New York and every other large city in the
country in tie matter Of keeping down the
dive evil?
The proposed change in the order Of the
board giving the licensing of these places
over into the hands of the Police Commis-
sioners is placing the responsibility where
il belongs.
Who but the police have a thorough
knowledge Of the nastiness of these places
Of their influence in creating criminals?
The police interdict tile CTemOIne, the
Alhambra and the other lOaths0me dives in
which so many crimes are committed and
so many young men and young women de-
bauched, and then the city OTdiDance-as it
stands-permits those places TO run on in
their evil course just the same.
How?
Simply by giving the licensing over into
the hands of y DTOperty-Owners.
Is not that frightfully dangerous law?
Suppose that the bringing Of the small
Dox or the cholera Into this city were de-
pendent upon the signatures OF II property
owners.
Do you doubt for a moment that those
II names could be obtained?
or course they could.
II they could not be obtained by fair
means they could be secured by foul, and
the latter is exactly the way the tabOoed
diYe-keepeTs work.
Would smallpox or cholera be any worse
than the maintenance Of these. dives
Would not the saving Of all those poor
women from lives Of shame offset scOurge
OF smallpox?
a person may look lightly upon the down
fall OF a VOuup piri- danpndS unnD hGxy
near 10 him the girl is.
Those girls whom the Cremnrne de-
baHches and Slays-thOse poor deluled. sac
Tlheed girls. They are not merely girls.
They are Enthusiastically daughters.
For the sake of their parents, II not for
themselves, they should be protected.
Ii would be safe to estimate the number
Of girls thus far debauChed blythe Cremorne
al 800 at the very least. There are always
20 or 60 there, and they are coming and going
all the time.
If the Cremorne keeps on another six or
eight years il will debauch 800 more
Five hundred mOTeI
Where are those 500 girls now?
Perhaps few, if any, have begun TO tread
the paths Of sin.
They are now happy schoolgirls, many Of
them-bright and intelleetual-full OF bud
ding promise.
You see them walking home, with their
books under their arms. their fresh young
faces smiling and full of innocent mirth
You see tham out iD the park on a holi-
day, with parents and friends.
You see them passing to and fro on the
ferry boats. They may be friends and
schOolmaieS Of your own daughters. They
may be those daughters themselyes-hoW
can you tell?
Those gIrls-those bright, blooming. in
noeent girls-who ara the light of their Ia
thers' homes, the JOY of their mothers
hearts, are they To be drawn down to he'll
through such agencies as the woman-slay-
ing CTemorEe?
Are they?
They are likely to be If the Cremcrne is
not closed.
The CremOrne must have girls, il seems.
1t cannot run without girls
But where are the girls to come from?
Whose girls are they now?