Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-03-15
I elm the following from the New

l clip tic following from the New
Charter, of Santa Cruz, California.
While it refers only to California,
the article is splendid, and will ap'
ply to the world at large. 1t is too
good to b ost:
Rev. DR.. lille, of San Francisco,
is leaving long clouds of dust be-
hind him as he takes hurried flights
from his sanctum to the halls of the
capitol building and back again.
The Reverend Doctor wants COM
mittee to investigate the salacious
wickedness of San Francisco. Not
long since he took trip through
the slums. He saw vice literally in
its nakedness. Women disported
themselves before him, clothed only
in their epidermis. Others solicited
him after the fashion in which the
Devil approached St. Anthony. In
street he found, so he says, an un-
broken row of houses OF prostitu-
ton lining either pavement.
Rev. DR.. Ollie is shocked at 80
much wickedness. So is every
other good man. Rev. DR.. Ollie
wants to have this vice abated. So
does .sny other good man. Rev.
DR.. Ollie proposes to have an inves-
tigating committee appointed to
come to San Francisco, to smell out
these evil places, and to drive the
harlots from their haunts. And
herein Rev. DR.. Ollie, who, to my
own personal knowledge, is a good
man, makes an ass of himself.
Suppose the lewd women are
driven from Dupont street, from
Clay street, from all the streets
where the infamous trade goes on
nightly. What then? Will they
not locate is some other neighbor-
hood? Does Rev. DR.. Ollie really
believe that prostitution is to be
abolished by compelling the prosti-
tutes to move from one block to
the next? Is this great and evil
hing to be done away with by
cIy setting the fallen women to
Ii, b.. hunting? Ye gods and little
yellow-bellied fishes
What shall it avail the prostitute
if she chang her habitat, when the
world will not let her change her
mode of life? For this one thing
is certain: Though woman be
driven by stress Of uttermost want
to do for lead what men lightly do
for fun, al though she loathe the
deed with unspeakable adherence,
yet shall repentance, and a lite Of
finest deeds, of suffering, of pa
tience and repentance, redeem her
not. More than one harlot has laid
hands on the ladder of hope and
commenced to climb to better life.
And always stands that hateful
thing called society, waiting to hurl
with hands of scorn the poor crea-
ture back into the abysses.
ole that is without sin among
you, let him cast the first stone"
The Preacher who said that knew a
great more than you do, DR.. Ollie.
For with those wise eyes He saw
this truth; That while brother
lifts hand against brother while
men, like wolves, snarl and fight
over the bounties of the good God
while the strong set heels on the
necks of the weak F; while an &C.
cursed social system says to every
child born into the sunlight
nFight or starve, eat or be eaten ~
so long will poverty, and crime and
prostitution be the fate of millions
DR.. Ollie, what think you! II
Christ came to San Francisco to
morrow, would He go down to Du
psnt street among the harlots and
thieves, with an investigating com
mittee and a posse of policemen al
his backH Can you picture Him
crying to these prostitutes eye
harlots, fee from the wrath of my