The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-03-02

lOOn, 10 take a urlHAy icuuly AT
the law, only TO retire again through
labyrinthene passages where none need
follow-carousing, unworthily demean-
ing social function by the introduction
of a tone at once cross. outre, and bi-
zarre, and hating the law! My, my;
oh, oh; fie, fie; nendless array OF
vocatires would be useless here. so We
will simply say tut. tut. and weeping,
let ic go at that
There is another class whose atti-
tude toward municipal reform has ever
been that OF easy complaisance, or phil
osophical Indifference; whose amiabili-
" leads them to compose and soothe
all difficulties, and TO whose natural
gifts OF bubbling and esfervescent
though hoydenish. imprudence Chica-
goans have brought by creating and
sustaining a stead demand unsurpass-
able elegance OF social qualities and
customs-whcm they call with great
propriety of speech, women of easy
virtue. These are not enumerated In
doubt are to be taboed In the coming
investigation. partly from the sorry
spectacle of ill-requited worthy endeav-
ors it would afford, more because of the
difficulty OF correct and equitable
census, but mainly. perhaps, because it
would swell the grand total OF Chico
go's submerged tenth" TO one fifth
the population nearly. Moreover moral
questions should never be attacked at
the point of least resistance, as our mo-
mentum is likely to carry us TO an un-
tenable position, our fianks are certain
to be turned, our whi,om advantages be-
comes escrew and lost. whilst ennui
eventually ensues-with complete coma
a not infrequent adjunct.
But what interests me most is where
the doctor assumes the slum state OF
affairs to be even remotely connected
with the heart or lie of a nation. This
is not the first time men have been de-
ceived by narrow environment. IL Is
merely to be noted, in passing, that
all true life and advancement in ma
ton must originate and be sustained
in the country. and if transferred TO the
city is merely continued there under
more or less adverse conditions. The
true office of cities Outside of Boston)
and their paramount Importance has
been a much mooted question. In
their primary relations they doubtless
stand as the purveyors and distributors
of the products and appliances neces-
sary to the physical well-being OF the
country, and as such should be kept In
a cleanly and healthful condition. the
better to facilitate business and To en-
tertain guests who are called thither
upon business, pleasure, or instruction.
Most of them are admirably conducted,
but il would be wholesome for them TO
remember that the vending OF their
products, down 10 small wares, news
papers and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, is
in direct response to a demand and
requisitions for such service by the peo-
pie, and must. centes, end with its with
drawal. Is il not then, apart from
original stipulations that our eyes and
ears should be thus violently assailed
with scurvey rehash of Gotham's
swirling filth and the stencil of its
political atmosphere, pictures OF un-
seemly scrimmages, abhorent Slum
scenes, and the sights of municiual cor
ruption? II the voice of the country
were heard at this unhappy juncture IL
would doubtless be that of a sober man
arising and beginning to speak amongst
parcel of drunken revelers. 1t would
council above all things measure and
Have measure, gentlemen
have measure.
In regard to the very large cities,
which seem set apart as centres of
an historical parallel pre-
sents itself. where the types are so OPP
rosite, and the analogy pertinent that,
ha picl- nf f1r-farnhG6 I H.
troduce as an aid to profitable refiec-
ton and rectifying knowledge. In an
cient Jewry there were appointed and
set apart by the prophets no less than
six cities, which We're instituted and
designated cities of refuge. These
were Hebron, Beer, Gilead, Golan,
Shechem and Kadesh-Naphtali. 1t Is
is to be noted that six more required
10 perform the function that now de
wolves upon two. In sporadic cases
of lawlessness which lead to blood-let-
ting the nearest city was used as an
asylum by the culprit. The roads thi-
therward were kept in excellent repair
to facilitate sprinting, and signs were
set up everywhere showing the way
Once arrived the manslayer was safe
from molestation by the inhabitants,
at the death of the high priest complete
was granted all who had
taken asylum, and the ayenger OF blood
forever forestailed. IL would seem we
have preserved the pirit and improved
upon the system of our fore-fathers
Widely advertised and nickle-plated
roads lead from all sections OF the coun-
try to Chicago and New York. Ihey
are traversed with almost lightning
speed by limited express trains, ana the
benefit and easement to the country al |
large can hardly be overestimated- As
to the analogy OF Il governing high |
priest. whose death absolves from IRE |
last taint of suspicion, We have I'M |
proved upon that, and when We Feai |
that certain men have sand-bagged the |
council or gagged the mayor we are ap- |
prised they are seeking a dehVsrance \
after the pre-mosaic inclination OF tnelf /
hearts. Thus We are eased OF the ad-
verse influence OF n troublous element. |
which is all the law originally inteided /
m comurehend. are relieved fTom the /
effects of municipal corruption. the in
,errninable strikes. riots. lCck-outs. mob I
and federal violence, and all the dis
graceful scenes and happenings INCL
dent to residence in a city ot Tetuse'
with the off-scouTing OF thes@
which coaguIates in the low, uncannE
nulsing OF slum life. which the doctor
IS p!sased TO believe has 10 do Win tne
life current Of the nation
Sums and slum life have always pos
sesssd a weird and dangerous attraction
for minds Of sympathetic nature but