The evening world., 1905-12-21

Ine Kew Dr, ROBERT H. PADDOCK WIZ
has applied a sharp prod to the Tender.
loin police and is still holding II there
said to-day that he did not want the
public to think that he had started a
crusade against vice, but he is nghting,
AMI has always fought, against the as
ISOLATION of vice with decency-the rub
bling Of the one against the other,
When this goes on, says Mr. Paddock,
decency almost Invariably becomes in
fected with vice. They must be kept
apart, While the reverend gentleman
will not say that he believes in segre.
cation, as applied 10 the social evil
his words point just 10 that state OF
conditions.
At his home, No. $50 West Twenty
eighth street, he had this to say to an
Evening World reporter:
when the hundreds Of dens OF vice
were driven out Of the l~ong-sufering
east side, the inmates were forced to
seek refuge In many parts OF this
try and even abroad, Hundreds Of them
went to South Africa; others into the
South and West, and many IemalnGi in
this city, moving into other districts,
"All this did not help conditions, FIX
cept that one set OF people were rid Of
the pest. Other and Just as respectable
localities had to receive them. 1t does
no good 10 drive these women out Of
one street into another a few blocks
further uptown.
Dlsapproves Raids with Axes.
THE raid with the axe and the sub
sequent court process do no good in the
long run We cannot suppress the evil.
but We can repress It by working on an
intelligent basis. What l am trying to
DO Just now Is to fight the evil on It's
outside, as II affects the child, the home
and the passer-by.
This must develop into a popular
movement; It must have the support OF
the newspapers before It can succeed.
out by going at It In a Thoughtful
sober manner, leaving all hvstr ria
aside. a real reform may be e effected.
I know that every Indecent woman
and man in this city Will help TO pro.
'ect the child from bad Influences.
None has fallen so low as TO deliberate
y corrupt innocent childhood.
Every father and brother In his city
Who has honor and decency in his heart
Mould protest to the police every day
against any place in his neiehborhood
hat plants vice in the faces OF wives
md children. II Is not much 10 ask.
Fights for the Children.
What l am fighting for is this: First,
o protect the children. I know. and
-ou know, that little innocent babies
re called upon to go on errands for
hese creatures, This brings them in
ctual contact with the evil. The IT.
10 ones marvel at the beautiful clothes !
nd furnishings OF the apartment they
re called upon 10 enter, n compare
hem with the palmer furnishings OF
heir own houses. have known cases
I the tenement child being called on
0 dance for patrons OF those heNs. II
} awful. Let us protect the child.
Second. let us keep our women ana
from contact with the courtesan
nd her co-llver. The tenement must be
leansed. The landlord must be prose-
uted until he drives out this demoral-
zng element
"Ah, | have seen a tenement where
he polr were so poor-where they
would perhaps have starved ~ death
xcept for the food sent upstairs by the
~reature living on the floor below,
ghere the very coal sending out It's
warmth from the range was bought by
his same creature with the price OF her
yomanhJod. She had bought their Fl.
nnce. Is this not an awful condition OF
What chance has moTnlity,
when charity comes from such a quar-
or? Where do the childhel Of these
DOR end and how can Il be otherwise,
% long as the tenement-house Is not
dAnd, third, our city must be kent
rec from L..e brazen women who leth
/ rho orne OF the street. There are
srtain localities constantly frequentei
y decent people where these women
ire 50 bold that one becomes really
Harmed. Men with nothing but decen-
y in their minds and honor In their
are accostcd, and this should not
Ne. Our city streets should he safe
rom temptations OF this kind, and,
vim the help Of decent men, l can