Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-04-12

quarters This place is not intended for homea
for the women, but only bazaar in which to
conduct their business and barter their bodies
set of regulations was formulated by the
board OF health and police departments. These
have been sent to the "masters" of these wo-
men, to the women themselves, and several
copies are framed and hanging on the gates to
serve as advertisements for the ''industry"
In reading the following, please remember
that these rules have been made by the very
departments paid to preserve the health and
decency of the city:
1. Hours of occupation from p. H. TO
a. M, and the gates will be open during those
hours.
2. The prostitutes must stay in their own
rooms, ard never be allowd to engage in the
business at the roadside.
8. Prostitutes, if they wish to, may remain
all night in their rooms. They may also come
in and go out at any time, but they may not
ply their trade after the said hours.
a. The masters of prostitutes, or their para
sites (shogi no isorso), are not allowed to re-
main inside the fence or to sleep with their
prostitutes through the night.
enclosure.
6. policeman shall remain within the
court from p. IN. to a. III. Their hours of
duty are as follows: One policeman from a p.
IN. to IL IN. One policeman from IL IN. to 6
a. M These policemen will be changed, TAX
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7. The duty of the police will be to quiet
any disturbances that may occur, and to pre-
serve good order IN the place.
Last year, the grand jury made an investiga-
ton of the club, and gave the following report:
"We find the conditions of the premises and
general management, which is conducted under
the supervision of the board of health and po-
lice department, to be as satisfactory as could
be expected, provided the shameless vocation is
a necessary evil"
Not long since, the members of the legisla-
ture made trip to the quarters to learn if any
improvements were necessary. After general
rounds, talking to the women, examining some
of the stalls and learning all there was to
know, they visited the managing althrities,
where, after full and lengthy discussion of
the matter, it was the opinion of all that the
departments mad "done themselves proud" in
the great amount of intelligence manifested in
conducting the institution, and these foster
parents of the industry of prostitution returned
with the consciousness of having we'll discharg
ed very important duty.
The most Infamous part of this outrage upon
the moral sentiment of all the mankind is the
manner in which the women, many of them
innocent of what they are going to, are secured
A company of Japanese, recognized by the au-
thorities in charge as ''masters of the women,"
have full management of them, and also the
securing Of them. They have in their regular
employ thirty procurers. Some of these make
regular trips to Japan to reinforce the stockade
with Younger women with fresher charms.
Others 90 about this group of islands, visiting
the large plantations where numbers of women
are employed, and surrounded by full degree
of comfort, for the plantations have made every
provision for the we'll being of their employees.
Here the procurer gains he confidence of the
women by expressions of sympathy for their
hard lot in manual labor. This ends by offer
ing them easy employment in the city, with
fewer hours and more pay. Thus, scores of
innocent women are trapped and brought to the
city, where they become hopelessly involved in
debt while waiting for the promised situation
Threatened by law, in fear and trembling, they
are fairly driven to the stockades to barter their
bodies in sin that they may meet the demands
of supposed Indebtedness that is enlarged up
on from time to time in order to retain them,
that these human vermin may prey upon de-