The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-08-30
& Menace to the Home.

server says one of its detectives
spent..a night in the Tenderloin
recently, with his pockets full
of spurious money. He was
robbed with lavish :prodigality
by the bad women of that sec
ton who thrust their vicious
ness into his face on the streets.
He complained to the police of
that district, and they located
the female thieves, but quar-
relied with them as to who
should have the stolen money,
themselves or the robbers, the
despoiled victim evidently being
supposed to be dead. Such rob-
berries are of constant occur
renee, the police evidently be-
ing in collision with vice to an
appalling extent, and they are
protected in that collusion by
the municipal administration.
Indeed. the supposed guar
dians of the law" are passing
the point of merely winking at
vice. They are becoming active
criminals themselves. One Of
sthe finest" held up a street car
in the American metropolis and
robbed everybody on it worth
robbing. Profligate women
from all parts Of the country are
pouring into the city, because
the town is ''wide open," and
one Of the Mazet detectives
found thirty posts unpatrolled
by the policemen in the worst
part of the city. Such is disre-
spectacle disreputable vice in
New York.
Our attention is called to vice
in somewhat less disgusting
form and brazen openness by
the Washington correspondence
of the New York Sun, which
states that the United States
Post-office department is con-
sidering the New York Herald's
"personal' advertisements, as
to whether they are fit matter
to be allowed in the mails or
not. These :;personals" are
barely cloaked with ingenious
wording. Their evident impure
intents and purposes are appar-
ent to all but the absolutely
guileless. The New York Sun
hates Mr.. James Gordon Ben
net, proprietor of The Herald.
and hence it is just now making
a noise about his papers per
sonl'' ads. 1t calls attention to
the fact that the wealthy editor
of the,,Chicago Dispatch, Joseph
R. Dunlop, who printed ''per-
sonal" advertisements of a sim
liar nature to The Herald's, was
tried for the offence in the fed
eral court, found guilty and
sentenced to two years in the
Joliet penitentiary, in spite of
all that money and lawyers
could do to prevent the laws
decree. The punishment after
all was a mild one. But the
fact Of the publication Of these
personal columns in the city's
yellow papers shows the exist
ence of vice to a very great eN-
tent. yet not so fragrant as in
the Tenderloin.
And yet this is not all. The
''four hundred,'' with their
creme de la creme eNclusiveness,
are far from being immaculate,
and brown-stone fronts on Fifth
avenue are, ,sometimes-nay, Of
ten-the haunts of vice, jewel
bedecked, satin-clad swell"
elite vice, but vice all the same.
The millionaires of the great
city tire of a wife very quickly,
the courts grant divorces on the
very slightest provocation, and
glittering millions do not have
to hunt for wife No. 2. These
exclusive, soap-scented, million
aire, alleged aristocrats depose
one wife and take up a neigh
boris wife so suddenly some
times that it almost amounts to
a swap. The Norfolk Land
mark used an apt term the other
day, when it referred to the
state of New York society as
being truly 'Neronian.''
An so in the tenement, in the
fiat and in the brown-stone
front of New York the vice of
impurity is sapping the founda-
ton of the home, which is the
basis of a pure church and an
upright state. Other great cities
like Chicago and San Francisco
are no better than New York.
There are thousands of good
people who cry out against this
state of society, but the truth
remains that, with the highest
development of art, with as
founding strides in science and
invention, at the high tide of the
planets progress, we are swing
ing into the twentieth century,
permitting, and often nursing
and caressing, the sin, which in
its mos. frightful development
and elimination, called down
fire from heaven upon the cities
of the plain.