The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-06

and business force OF our energetic con-
temporary the Pawtuokot Post started
out to find immortality IN that lively
town. Their efforts seem to have ben
only indifferently rewarded or rather,
they heard of what an awful town Prov
idenco was that beside it tho indiscretion
OF their own con munlty seemed, like the
Scotch maid 5. only "a little one.
AS nearly as we can comprehend the
published report OF the Posts researches,
the only immortality 30 be found in Paw
tuoket is traceablo TO the malign inilu-
ence of Providence. If Providence were
not so near, Pawtucket would be the
abiding place of all tho virtues. Nics is
not inherent in PGwtucket, according to
what the Post could learn, but is imported
from Providence in original packages
The young men OF the Post, it seems
did not make direct and personal ex-
animation, but called upon "several citi-
zens of prominence TO ask their views. "
Ii is noe stated whether this method of
seeking out immortality was adopted be-
cause of the lack of capacity on the part
of the Post representatives TO recognize
immortality when they saw il or because
they feared to be contaminated IL they
undertook to make its personal aoquant-
ance At any rate what tho several
citzons of prominence" told them APP
pears to have been accepted for corn and
20 have satisfied the purposes of the nves-
tigation. They set forth to find i'm
morality in Pawtucket but returned to
announce that all thure was In Pawtucket
was in Providence. "It Is In Providence, +"
declares the Investigation Isyndicate "'in
the gilded dens of vice that the fast young
men of Pawtucket" ESQ it appears there
arc fast young men in Pawtucket, unless
this admission Is inadvertcnt) "meet with
and receive the allurements. There q. o.
in Providence) iniquity abounds to
disgraceful extent
We cannot undertake TO produce all the
wickodness that the Posts young men
find In Prov idence for tho fast young
men of Pawtucket to indulge in, but we
are informed that il els all done under
the eyes of tho authorities. " that "tbe
pulpit Is strangely silent on the subject. "
and of course the press is silent too.
Why? demands tho Post i'm fine fit Of
rage at Providence for catering to the fas
young men of its own town. "Do tho
police know that Providence Is honey
combed with vioeS Yes. Do the preachers
know that there is a premium for pro-
tccting houses of ovilS Yes Do the news
papers know TO what low degree the
morality of the city OF Providence has fsl-
len9 Yes.
And the editor. after oongratulating his
boNunpcoplo tHo khSu lDclr loWH
offers no attractions to their fast young
mon, declares that 1.-THE investigation has
shown that vice abounds unchecked In the
neighboring city, the metropolis of Rhode
Islano, the city founded by Roger vii
Jams Thither 80 the fast youth, tho mo-
rally weak and the irretrievably vicious
of this city. for there they are safe from
the arm of the law, 4" and the editor adds:
"If IL wero not for the fact that young
men of Pawtuoket arc morally ruined
every day in the ehameful houses of Prov.
dence The Post would remain silent on
this subject
We may congratulate our neighboring
town Of Pawtucket on its rectitude
as thus attested, but 1t may oc-
cur TO the discriminating reader
20 ask how did those "soveral citi-
zens of prominence" out In pawtuoket
come to know so much about Proyidenceg