The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-22

of lust. Shame again upon the property holders
who rent their houses for such purposes willing
to live the proceeds of prostitution. Their
names ought to be read out from every pulpit
In San Francisco. Shame, thrice shame, upon
nation who be bribed by the wages Of sin
and accept a share OF the corruption fund
which comes from so corrupt and deVilsh a
source
Crime is long and reforms short, as
rule. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
and freedom from the buzzards and jackals the
parasites and ticks that feed and fatten on the
body polite Let the papers and the public
keep eases on these gambling cases. The
for wind" He knows and the jabirds that
he defends know, that the public soon get tired,
and as rule these raids and reforms are only
spasms Of virtue. After a long sleep the sense
OF public decency Is aroused, there is a great
sputter for a little while-somebody perhaps
not as guilty as the ninety nine who have gone
free, Is made scapegoat of. put in the pillory
and then our virtue takes another seven years
sleep.
No man woman who makes any claim to
decency will deny that vice in all its hideous
forms such as we find here in our city ought
not 70 be suppressed. But no woman
outside Of a lunatic asylum should be misled
into the belief that vice can be suppressed by
into living a sober life. You cannot make
man honest or pure or woman chaste and
virtuous by passing an ordinance You cannot
clothe the Board of Supervisors with the power
Of the keys, that whatsoever sins they remit
they RENTED; and whosesoever sins they
retain they retained.
Therefore ii is all important that public opin-
ion should be directed against these evils, not
by fits and starts. like a Sacramento-street ca
BILE car, but by constant, steady and uniform
process. which is elevating in tone and educa-
tional in character. A process by which right
standards raised and the public conscience
quickened.
hope our san Francisco papers will become
confederate and stand together in this good
work and not like Judges, forget the com
foe and turn their guns upon each other
I care not what the. motive may be that in-
spires the press so long II arrays itself on
the right side-that is half the battle. There
is a host of evil-doers who stand more in fear
OF the press than they do of the prison. While
swapping their fingers in the face Of police ofn-
GERS. they cover and crawl away from the
frown of public opinion. Without khe press to
advocate it's cause. reform might as we'll give
up the fight, for. like the bird with the broken
wing it may :'futter but never fly. read
all the papers, morning and evening, Sunday
and Monday, and of all the coors of the jour
nalistic rainbow. And if can in place Of
scattering hold the prismatic rays of the press
together we stand a good chance of getting
piercing beam of white light.
believe that if the three Ps that trinity of
power-the police, the press and the pulpit
will work together do better work
than Hercules did when he turned the rivers
into the cattle pens and pig sites of Augeas,
King of Ellis. In defense of justice and moral
ity and in the suppression of vice and crime
we may become a threefold cord not easily