Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-23


startled the civilized world and awakened
even the eontentedly sleepy people of Eng
lands metropolis to the existence Of con-
dition of affairs so horrible as to cause in
credulity. His Tribute of Modern Baby
Ion" disclosed a traffic in young girls for
immoral purposes which it assisted in
stamping out Later DR.. Parkhurst in New
York conducted a similar crusade and ac.
complished good even in that maelstrom OF
wckedness
But the evidence is accumulatug that
there is even more unnatural traffic gain
ing headway in the Capital of the nation
The police so far have but touched the
negro dives where men dressed in women's
clothes were captured and brought 10 the
police station Heretofore a certain class
of sexual perverts have confined their horri-
BILE and nameless iufamy to the parks and
quiet side streets where they have some
times been arrested and charged with vag-
rancy, a modern coinage for the unspeak-
able sin of the libertines of ancient Sodom
There are houses-we have one on New
York avenue especially in mind-where the
police are morally certain that white men
dressed in women's garments enact the roles
the negroes wlo were raided for few weeks
DdGk. 1nGNG II scarcely a fbhAiA va NAN'ANA
sex of the under world of Washington who
is in ignorance Of the designs and purposes
of certain park providers, aud who talk
among themselves with bated breath OF cer-
tain unprintsble practices. The occasional
arrest Of one of these sexual perverts
charged with vagrancy deceives none OF
this class, from the ranks of which victims
are solicited and secured by these prowling
and beastly wretches.
In conversations with police and others,
the GLOBE has been made acquainted with
the extent of this evil, and if we but pub
lished an epitome Of the authenticated tales
of unnatural practices related to us Wash
ington would wake up in horror and unbe-
lief that such a Sodom and Gomorrah ex-
isted in its midst
It is not pleasant duty to revert to these
conditions in the National Capital, and
nothing could induce Us to do so except the
hope Of either Iessening the evil or making
its practice dangerous By shading the
coarser outlines aud admonishing the per
petrators of these unnatural crimes that ex-
posure and punishment stalks in the shadow
they, or at least, the youth who too often
voluntarily become victims will be iutiui-
dated and afraid Of the legal consequences
aud public exposure.
II is therefore, deliberately announced
that the GLOBE will show no mercy to this
class of vile creatures and that there will be
a Nemesis on their trail to drive them, at
least, from parks and streets and public
places, where their victims assemble and
are tempted, ensnared and debauched.
The columns of the GLOBE will be open
to those who have been led into evil prac-
tees ia such houses as the alleged respect
able residence on New York avenue, to
which we have referred. William O'Brien
NJ p the founder Of the present United
Irish League, when a Dublin (Ireland)
journalist, discovered and broke up such
gang Of miscreants in the Irish capital
among the Scotch and English officials.
CORVALLIS, the secretary to the general
post-ofice a Scotch carpe.-bagger, sued
Mr.. O'Brien for criminal libel aud civil
damages. Mr. O'Brien proved his charges
by the testimony of the victims of Corn
wallis lust, and that scoundrel with his
gang of English officials were compelled to
flee the country, Notwithstanding the pro-
lection extended them by Dublin Castle
the stronghold of English iniquity in
Ireland.
The revelations made in Mr.. O'Brien's
weekly newspaper shocked all Ireland, the
people of that country never having heard
much less dreamed, that there were any
such moustrous practices and such
monsters as CORVALLIS and company.
This particular phase of "Auglo-Saxon"
civilization the GLOBE is determined to ex-
pose aud break up in Washington and it
therefore, taking time by the forelock,
warns the youth who assemble in the parks
and shady by-ways adjacent thereto in the
coming fine weather that we will have re-
porters on the alert to note and report the
occurrences which have heretofore escaped
notice or publicity The GLOBE will stren-
uously aid the police authorities in sup
pressing this unnatural vice, and no arrest
for "vagrancy" will be permitted to com
done this shocking and nameless crime.