Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-07
GARNETT, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 7, 1900.


to medical examination each week by the regularly
authorized military physicians and to pay four pesos for
each examination. book is given to each girl the
of which her photograph and inside bunch
blank certificates of inspection" When each examination
is made the officer fills out and signs certificate that the
party examined is free from all venereal disease Later
in the day, along another inspector that the
examination has been made and makes another
the fact In the girl found to be infected the doctor
hustes her of to the Hospital de Inspection where she
is kept until we'll While in the hospital she must pay
her keeping She is not allowed to take any treatment
outside of the hospital unless it be from physician
mended by the superintendent who is the push
The superintendent is careful telephone to doctor
recommended If the lady has not taken treatment
there the police notified and she arrested and
ed back to the regular hospital.
This examination fee of four dollars per week. paid by
the to the department" is said go into fund
to maintain the hospital But when the hospital author
tiles asked to explain why the compelled
pay their while there, information is forthcoming
1t is 'ofhcia business which is of mo to the
public"
About three weeks ago, Major Ira Brown OF the military
board of health made elaborate report to his supeors
the subject of official prostitution He explained that
the fearful prevalence of Infamous diseases attribut
able to the fact that frequently the bagnos be-
crowded with soldiers that the madams forced
to send the streets and byways to collect add
said that the Diseases of this sort usually contracted
from this class of girls and from the duy-authorized
official prostitutes AS remedy for this deplorable state
of affairs he urged that reservation be set apart the
city for the exclusive of this class of business people,
this reservation to be divided into three sections The first
section to be confined to American girls the second
section foreign ladies' and the third section be
for native Filipino girls This unprntabe report has been
favoraby considered by those in power and is under
stood newspaper and official circles that be adopt
ed However, the full plan is not to be carried out until
after election, since if it made public this tme it
might keep of the Methodists from voting tor Nc
Knley.
When the Americans took possession of the city, the bulk
of the troops quartered out Sampaog of
the best residence districts of city, 1t the end
of the street car lnes and thereby convenient.
Straighway the prostitutes hocked this section
droves The orgies became fright that the Spanish
families OF the district began lock up their houses and
rent residences in other portions of the city Now there
but few respectable families left in the vicinity Two
whole streets wholly taken up with houses of lrepue
At night these two streets filed with drunken soldiers
rioting, yelling Americans and hafnaked In this
settlement of lust, there is scarcely house of prostitution
which is decorated with American flags inside and
Some of them have American flags painted clear the
front of their establishments All haye glaring signs of
American beers either inside While many of the
inmates Russians Austrians and Roumanians. all
cerousy declare that they Americans and shout aloud
for the American flag The whole situation thoroughly
American In the vicinity the usual saloons
All of these advertised american saloons, and
most of them have American flags painted their
front 1t is a concrete reve of american civilization
The other streets in the vicinity honeycombed with
these resorts. Sampaog instead of being residence
Sort wholly given to riot and ascyiousness Only
a few weeks ago. the head of of the few remaining
spectacle Spanish families business the Escolta
,,f
te city Like Others of the Spanards who had fed
instead of locking up his home he rented it for immoral
purposes The Spanish families remaining great
disgust and attempted to organize boycott his bust
They eyen visited the local daily papers
their cooperation
In the Sulu archipelago, official houses of prostitution
have been opened the caneen plan The beginning has
been made Joo, and General Kobhe who is in command
of the district credited with being the promoter of the
brilliant project.
In this archipelago, well in Mndanao, houses of
this are unknown Women of this character also
practically unknown. The chastity of the native Moro
sacredy protected There such thing known
rape and kindred oenses. The natives are
the ierces fighters in all the Philippines The officers
afraid that the soldiers would get beyond control and
make criminal assaults the native women they had
frequently done in Luzon among the Tagals They also
knew that assault of this meant a with
these ''uncivized people"
Accordingly the authorities rented three houses and I'M
ported enough girls from Japan to stock them all. One
reserved for the officers and the other for the
men. The girls regularly inspected by the army
geons their business under their official diec
ton. Some weeks ago. disease broke out in of the
houses The establishment closed and guard
put it. Two weeks ogo the United States transport
Warren visited olo and carried there from Cebu three
companies from the 23d infantry AS quite number of
these soerswere noduated with vile diseases the officers
Joo temporarily closed their canteen houses of prost
tuition and put guard each with orders to allow
to enter who did shoulder-straps The
tves who have before house of f-fame,
much interested in the concern but watch their girls
with unusual vigilance. They afraid that they be-