The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-04-05
CLEAN OUT SMOKE.

in the court room in relation to the wick
edness, the drunkenness and the de
bauchery existing in Smoky Hollow, viii
no longer doubt that it is time to put
stop to such midnight orgies.
1t has been shown beyond the shade
shadow or pretense of a doubt thai
dozens of Wretched, diseased, red-eyed
blotched faced women-black, white and
yellow, and all together, are running
dens of prostitution. They have come
upon the witness stand and under oath
stated that they are scarlet women and
brazenly confessed that they were con
Quoting their whited sepulchers
They have sworn that boys not over 16
years of age from the town Of Durham
are habitual habitues of these dens of
vice and wickedness and criminality.
These sorry sirens gloat over their in
Internal infamy, and point with PRIDE
to the fact that they are corrupting, de.
moralizing and poisoning the youth of
this town.
Respectable women on the witness
stand stated that this rendezvous of fallen
women and drunken men was in such
close proximity to their homes that they
and their children were forced to hear
the vulgarity and profanity which Oozed
from the disreputable place at night
time, and during the day the brazen
strumpets would flaunt their impudence
in their faces.
1t was also stated by witnesses on the
stand that the firing OF pistols was of
such frequent occurrence in that locality
that no attention was paid to the reports
Of the revolver that killed Sandy Jones.
And what does this mean? 1t simply
means that the lives of respectable citi
zens and the lives of the children of re-
spectacle citizens and the lives of respect.
able passers-bY, as we'll as the lives of in.
nOcent visitors to this burnt district. are
placed in jeopardy. 1t means that the
authorities are tolerating and allowing
and recognizing this frightful state of
affairs, and, as we understand it, are
powerless to act. 1t means that the chill
dren of the town, both boys and girls, are
indirectly contaminated by the poisonous
atmosphere rising from that cess pool of
iniQuity. They hear these things talked
about, and the youthful mind naturally
enquiries concerning things which can do
it no good. 1t means that homes are
Saddened; that lives are taken; that |
mothers hearts must bleed and fathers |
heads be bowed in sorrow. 1t means |
that bright young men are led astray 4;
hat their lives are wreck all this
with the sanction of authority.
If the moral aspect of the case is not
to move every man, then let
hose who see no immortality under.
stand that Smoky Hollow furnishes
more than moiety of the criminals
both for the police and superior courts.
\ half dozen murders have taken place
here, and it is not wild to assert that
he place has cost the taxpayers of Dur.
lam county $4,000.
And whether popular with the thugs
nd toughs, or even responsibility which
S conservative, TIE GLOBE believes
hat it is high time for the citizens who
would defend their own to act
The thing to do and there is no use to
aimee matters, is to call a meeting, oui-
tly, and organize, and if these old har-
OTIS after being asked to get out, refuse
o go, then let the delegation wait on
hem with tar and feathers and ride t
hem out.
This may seem harsh measure, but {
ur people should remember that it took
he vigilance committee Of San Francisco
ut little while to clean up 'society'' S
lere, after adjoining few telegraph
oles, and it took about the same time I
Or the Committee of One Hundred in
lnclnnati to purify the air which had I
ecome foul and frowsy in that city. q
nd it might not be forgotten that the 7
u klux Khan of North Carolina served I
5 purpose well, and now there is some | :
ling else to do. {
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