Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28


land throw light upon them, and be re
lsponsible for those who. under cove
lof secrecy, made their first start Il
ruin under his administration? l vii
Itake my chances on throwing so mucf
Hight on these roads to ruin that new
beginners will shun them. IL / canno
wipe il out at once. can throw
enough light on this crime that tht
good people will. l trust, make 1t pos
sible for me to wipe il entirely out 81
this community sooner or later.
| am not looking for reelection.
stand by my convictions. If l can not
| do il all, l do what l can l may re
ceive censure now, but the good people
will realize in the future that there
was a method in what seemed to them
but madness.
strive to Control.
Love of money. RIGHTEOUSNESS and
| whisky have been the ruination of PEG
pie of all ages. They are evils which
all municipalities have to content W}th
The man does not live who can stamp
either of them out so long as men will
sell their souls for the accumulation OF
| money, or for the qualification of sin
fui passion; nor so long as society re
ceives the men who drag girls down to
ruin; nor so long as the manufacture
of whisky as beverage is permitted
Therefore, we must strive to control
what We cannot stamp out. / hold the
lines so tight and keep my eye so con
stantly on the police department. that
money cannot corrupt it.
/ have closed the greatest curse TO
civilization, the wine room, where
many an innocent girl has met her ruin
through drugged liquors and wicked
influence. Many a scheme to ruin
homes have been carried out in these
wine rooms, small rooms partitioned
on in the back part of saloons. where
parties can be out of sight while they
talk and drink | know so much about
these dens of iniquity that one cannot
exist while it is in my power to kill it,
and | would advise every mayor who
does not know of this evil to investi-
gate, and if he is not a tool for the
lower element, he will close them also.
Again, | set definite time for all
of the saloons to open and close. When
ever one saloonkeeper breaks over. i
arrest him and fine him the first three
times: then if that fails l put him out
of business entirely, on account of my
inability to maintain proper police reg
ulation over his place. | aim to be fair
and square in all my dealings. / treat
every man alike. never taking advan-
tage of the unfortunate, but give them
chance in all cases: then If they will
not heed l bring them to time. To
show you that | practice what preach
my receipts through the police cour.
for the last fiscal year, ending March
81, 1905, was so, 461.65, being $5,113.36
more than the average for the past 10
years. This is surely evidence thai
someone has been taught to obey the
law, is it not?
Have Lights Shining.
The social evil is the thing that is
the hardest to handle in all municipal
ties. With a floating population like
Burlington. open houses of this kind
are almost a necessary evil, to guard
against worse crimes, and TO protect
the innocent from the clutches of the
vile wretches called men. who think no
more of a girls honor than they do of
the dust under their feet. But this
class must also be controlled, and that
so. Therefore, | treat them al,
much as / do the gamblers. throwiIg
light upon their acts, TO protect tie
and those who seek such
places under cover. ! stop street walk
ers, who formerly congregated about
the depots, postoffice and public places.
to catch men and boys, by sending
them up TO the station and giving them
a private lecture and letting them have
tense | fine them, and for the third
use their names in the public or print
ed report of the police court. If they
know that this is coming they will be
more careful of their conduct.
raid every bed house or roomins
house where men and women resort to
for immoral purposes, and punish ev
eryone caught therein by a nominal
fine, except the keeper of the house. |
give the keeper the full limit, 500 and
costs. | will not get many of them.
They will soon learn that they cannot
run in this way. In this manner | am
out one of the curses of civ
iliZation, which opens the doorway for
more innocent victims to the prey of
fiends in mans garb than any other
road | know of
In placing the above facts before
your readers l have confined my article
to my own acts. You will see that
they are original / ask no one to fol-
low them, but would be pleased to be-
if there is a better way ia
control the social evil by someone who.
has had more experience than myself.
Huge Task.
1t was huge task to undertake the
cure of such bad case of kidney dis