The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-19

friend and others are heard. But
in the Essex Market court there
was a decrease of 2o55 in the num-
Der Of women arrested. What
does it mean? The great number
of "cider saloons" on the East
Side explains it ALL Vice can be
blackmailed from certain dwellings
on the East Side easier than from
the streets, and the statistics given
here prove it. East Side streets
are vastly different from Tender
loin streets, and the Golfers of
Tammany Hall can show it. The
total number of arrests of women
for disorderly conduct for five
years was: 1896, 1905; 1897,
12,4I5; 1898, 1852; 1899, 17,255.
Go further into the Tammany
control Of crime in New York. The
report Of the magistrates shows
that in 1899 there was an increase
OF felonies over 1898 of 1244, and
that in 1899 there was an increase
IN grand larceny cases the previous
year of o1o. Now look as these
facts: The excise arrests fell off
326, and were the smallest in num-
Der since 1884. Is Tammany good
to liquor sellers who break the
laws? And why, do you suppose?
The number of arrests for keeping
gambling houses was smaller than
in any year since 1855. Is Tam
many good to the gamblers? And
why? Ask the policy game-keep-
ers who put up s1oo, 900 to secure
the election of Mayor Van Wyck.
The number of arrests for the VIC
lation of the sanitary code in 1899
was 2S4, compared with SIG in
1898, and less than in any year
since 1885. Does this explain
the increase in the death-rate in
the East Side wards? Then look
for the arrests for keeping disoreer-
ly houses in recent years: 1895,
48s; 1896, IA; 1897, 500; 1898,
(Tammany rule), ,237; 1899, $50.
And yet the town is wide open,
VIGOROUSLY wide open, compared
with the days of the Strong admin
istration.
WOMEN DECoYED TO NEW YORK.
Nor is this the end of the indict-
.ment against Tammany Hall as
destroyer of human lives for per-
sonal greed. / will take any one
worthy of consideration in the mat
ter to a man whose business it is
to send out agents to scour the
country for girls who, under prom
Use of good situations, are brought
to this city for hellish purposes.
Never was that business more
Aourishing than at present. In
June, 1899, one of these cases got
into print. Fifteen young women
were brought to this city from the
neighborhood of Allentown, Penn
sylvania. Most of them were sent
home, their presence having been
detected through agencies seeking
to stop this work. Those cases
got into the courts; hundreds do
not. The details of this commerce
are the most shocking of all that
flourish under Tammany rule. 1t
is traffic that 1nvades the sane
tity of the home hundreds of miles
away. 1t tugs at the heartstrings
of mothers. Does Tammany stop
it? No; somebody is making
money out of it. Nor is it con.
fined to the white race. | know a
good woman in whose veins there
runs negro blood, who was the
friend of the great Frederick Doug
lass, and in whom such a man as
the late c. P. Huntington trusted;
who is the friend of Booker T.
Washington; who is known far and
wide in her race as a person OF
unusual literary talent: a woman
refined and delicate as any of her
sex-who gives up most of her
time in working against the de-
signs of the trappers of negro
women shipped here by the score
from the south.