The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-04-14
TALKS TO REUBEN
What Is Being Said as We Limp
Along.
A Lover of One of the Girls Talks Out
Loud.
BUT HE ONLY TALKS FOR HEF
A Lame and Sorry Excuse for One Who
Defends Painted Prostitutes
in Durham.
DURHAM n. c.. April, 13, 1898.

Defends Painted Prostitutes
in Durham.
DURHAM n. C. April, 13, 1898.
| DEAR REUBEN-I have been reading
some of your gobs Of wisdom printed in
| THE GLOBE and have somewhat been
impressed that you carry level head be-
tween your shoulders, sometimes. Now
l want you and THE GLOBE Old Woman
to get after that chap Fairbrother and
some of the correspondents of the paper
and see if you can't get them kinder
level too. When l went to school l read
in the old reader about two Of those fell
lows called knights who used to go snort
ing around the country hunting a row.
They saw shield hanging over the road
and one of them said it was gold and the
other that it was silver and got to fight
ing about it until they came pretty nigh
killing each other and then when one of
them, the silver chap, crawled around to
stick his fingers in the others eyes he
happened to look up and saw that they
had been fighting about nothing and that
the shield was a common plated concern,
gilt on one side and washed over with
silver on the other. So it seems to me
there are two sides to most every ques-
tion and / have been reading what Fair
brother and the other fellows have been
women in Smoky Hollow land right here
let me tell you that agree with them on
one point, viz: Smoky Hollow must be
busted up), but we differ as to the manner.
The poor women are human beings.
| read all that is said about turning them
out, without shelter to cover their heads,
and about the people rising if the law
don't take them in hand and riding them
out of town on rail; but nary time do
YOU hear what must be done with them
after those means are used. No sugges-
ton is offered as to how they are to get a
living. No one has offered to give any
of them honest employment, and after
the good people of Durham are through
with them according to measures pro-
posed, they will freeze, starve, steal, beg
or 60 to the workhOuse as an expense to
the county or go and infict themselves
upon some of our neighboring cOmmu-
mites. You know, Reuben, Fairbrother
talks right smart about the Great Jew
and seems to admire him very much. DO
you think he would have proposed any
such plan of getting rid of fellow crea-
ture? He talked to what all would call
a bad sort of woman at a we'll in Samaria,
and kept his twelve bigoted, over-zealous
followers from throwing rocks at another
one, and just remarked that the fellow
who had not been there himself might
throw the first rock, and it aint recorded
that ever single rock was chunked at
her These houses are a blot upon our
community and ought to be suppressed
but it really seems to a common chap like
me, who is outside the ropes, that the
good christian people of Durham, before
they resort to such radical proceedings
ought at least to offer them some way OF
making an honest living.
You know, Reuben, acid cannot hurt
gold, and we have some good women in
this town as pure as any gold ever mined
in California Amt there a field in
"Smoke" for somebody to do some work
for the King? Our good women volun
teer to go to China and associate with
t the rabble; to India, where women are
sold in childhood; to Japan, where fe
male virtue among a large majority ot
the people is an unknown quantity, anc
| have seen it stated that in certain sec
, tions of that, the most enlightened coun
. try of the East, cOmely bed-fellow'is {
= part of the bill of fare at the inns.
Even a day or so ago | saw it stated il
one of our city papers that woman mos
e favorably known to most of the resident:
of this town was going to return to hel
field of labor 5000 or 5000 miles from
home and kindred, to Lagos, on the cas-
3, coast of Africa, an unhealthy miasmatiC
place, where smallpox, African fever
and other foul diseases are frequent anC
r terribly fatal, among people as corrupt
as British cupidity, Yankee rum, POrtu
guese superstition, Arab lust and Afri
can heathernism and ignorance car
make them, and among all our goOC
christian folks can't there be found ont
to lend helping hand to the poor wo
men in Smoke
Talk to Fairbrother, Reuben, he need;
it. He amt saying word about tn,
festive cusses that make thu employment
of these creatures possible; about the
: young man who leaves the parlors of ou1
E good people and wends his way there tc
r crafty his lust about the boy who, with
! his mothers blessing hardly ceased ring
: ing in his cars and with his cheek still
e moist with the kiss of fond sister, i:
: found there; about the hoary- headed ole
rake who leaves a hard. working wife
t and neglected family to find his hellist
D recreation there. Nothing about these