The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-25
HAVE
PROTECTION
For Our Homes and Families From
the Encroaching TenderIon.
THE coNcENsUs OF OPINION
OF Respectable Residents of the West
Side-Bitterly Denounce the Un-
Just Discrimination Between Them
and the East Side.

| Inc question OF removing VI re-
straining the occupants of the cribs
on Second avenue west is at the pres
ent time the chief thought of the
property owners and residents of the
section bordering upon the locality
known as the bad lands, as well as
| further south on Second avenue,
where during the past year some of
the finest residences in the city have
been built The people who have in
vested their money in houses and
lots are naturally interested in any
step that Will increasey~the valuation
of their property by Kidding the To-
cality of the undesirable class of peo-
same street.
The question of doing something
with the women on the row has been
discussed at different sessions of the
council for many moons, but when 1t
came to the method of solving the
riddle, opinions differed, and as re-
suit nothing was ever done. At no
time was any practicable remedy sug-
gested and as time went on the resi-
dents of the west side gave up all
hope of being relieved by the city
council. The granting of permit by
the council to one of the most notori-
Gus characters on the row, encourag-
ing her to build an addition to her
house has revived the question, and
already there is talk of the forma-
ton of league among the property
owners living on Third avenue west
and South Second avenue for con-
cert of action that will result in the
removal of the denizens of the pre-
scribed" district.
During the past few days the citi-
zens interested in this move were
seen and questioned as to their feel
ings in the matter, and without a
dissenting voice are of the opinion
that something should be done
toward cleaning out the resorts that
are blot to the west side, as well as
menace to the moral welfare of the
children who every day have to pass
the different places on their way to
the business part of the city The
plant of the members of the council
as well as the mayor that no place
can be found to remove the outcasts
is ridiculed by the thinking people in
that vicinity, who ask why it is right
that gambling should be stamped out
and not the houses of prostitution.
AS was remarked by one of the resi-
dents of Third avenue west 1T is just
;, as nearly right to allow gambling as
;. it is to allow houses of prostitution
to exist. Both are without the pale
of the law, and the council has no
more right to grant a permit to build
=. an extension to a gambling house
than it has to grant a permit for a
: prostitute to build an addition to a
4 house of i'll fame. What is the diff
ference? When the question of gam.
bling was discussed there was not a
member of the council who spoke in
q favor of marking out a special dis
o. trict for them. They were simply
= ordered to quit and get out of town
and to a certain extent the order was
obeyed The same thing can be done
Il in the present case. 1t is not neces
d sary for the city of Kalispell to buy
d any tract of land for the prostitutes
r They have been dallied with long
enough, and it is time that decisive
steps should be taken. Order then
1t out of town and if they refuse to &C
h or continue to ply their vocation il
" defiance of the law let them be ar
70 rested and dealt with just the same
ia as other violators of the laws of the
city and state"
This is the view of the matter
,e taken by the majority of the resi-
III dents of the west side, and they ar,
v, convinced that they are right "Th'
er people on the east side of the city.
10 said one, ARE content to sit back ant
say to let things be as they are; Blu
suppose the same condition of affair
I'd existed on Third avenue east as w
is have to put up with, how long, woult
IS they stand it? We are just as re
er spectacle as they and in every wa,
ed as good citizens. We pay our take
and are entitled to the protection o
the law which is being denied IL
ov every day the present condition O
Mt affairs is allowed to continue VIII
he have the most rights, the respectabl
he and law abiding citizens or the pros
It's titutes? From the recent action q
the mayor and the past record of tn
city council it would seem as thoug
or the laws were for the violators il
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