The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-02-10
A LESSON

either the prosecution or defense, caring
for nothing but our expressed desire that
Justice be done and the law indicated,
THE GLOBE newspaper desires to suggest
that the city council, or those who ap-
point or ratify appointments of special
policemen, should in the future have a
more thoughtful care.
What right, and of course we speak of
a moral right, have the officers of a mu-
nicipality, supposedly the ~custodians of
the city's morals and the guardians Of
society and decency-what right, we ask,
have such officials to appoint a guileless
boy to act as special police in a district
whose residents are prostitutes, whose
habitues are libertines-where virtue is
unknown and where honesty is held at
naught?
Isn't that a sublime and beautiful spec,
tacle, and is it not, at the same time, a
most villainous, Infamous and diabolical
outrage upon the youth destroyed-upon
his father and his mother and his family
and his friends?
Pretty picture indeed it is-a boy
maybe of age and maybe not O. age,
dressed in the little brief authority of a
policeman's badge, sent by city officials
night after night to places Of shame and
pie their souls and place no value upon
their souls-places where drunken de,
bauched, and diseased licentious liber-
tines raise merry hell throughout the
hours of the night, and this boy, feeling
that he had authority which perhaps he
did not POSSESS, naturally enough had a
row with the crowd of ignorant beer
drinkers, and the consequence is one is
beyond the grave, the other is in jail.
Men associate with men, and boys will
chum together, and to add to the shock
ing recital of the JONES murder it ap
peared upon evidence that Dick HAPPIER,
a sixteen-year-old boy, was not only in
the habit Of accompanying Mr.. ROLLINS
in his nocturnal rounds, but that NAN
WHITE, the brazen and bestial old strum-
pet, had actually harbored him in her
house. And this kid-this boy-sixteen
year old, swore that he had been there
several times before.
THE GLOBE claims, in the first place, if
this burnt district is to be tolerated, and
that it must be patroled, then it is mani.
testify the duty of the city council and of
those directing the police distribution, to
see to it that none but men of age, ex
p~erience and discretion are sent to Crap
pie with the outlaws. cut-throats, despera-
does, bravadoes and elegant gentlemen
who congregate there under the friendly
shade of night.
But THE GLOBE claims, in the second
place, that there is no need for the cock
a~trice's den TO be located so far from
town. If they are now under police sur.
Vigilance and these impudent old hays
! propose to defiantly ply their vocation
bring them into town and let the regular
paid police force see that they keep or
derby houses and that no more murders
are committed.
But the truth is, the NAN WHITES, the
ZoA DOLLARS, the ANN HORRORS and the
/ EVA DAREs, and all such scum and broth
of hell-being as they are, constituencies
and characterlesS courtezans, seducing
boys and alluring men-should be told to
pack their grips, and if they didn't, the
good people of the town should remem
Der that tar is not expensive and feathers
are plentiful.