Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-28
THE RED LIGHT RIOT
The News Passes the Middle Into the
Hands Of Correspondents

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Hands Of Correspondents
Last evenings News replies very
tartly to the article published in the
Appeal of yesterday morning explain
ing the stand of this paper on the
question Of moving the red light dis
trict to parts unknown, and leaving
the women to protect themselves ana !
the man who is looking for the wares
that are listed in this particular dis
trict to run rampant over Carson |
looking for questionable quarters. |
The correspondents state that the
Sheriff is dereict in his duties in re-
gard to licenses in the quarter. lie
may have been and he may have been
dragged before grand jury but MS
best bill of clearance papers is thai
he was elected in the face Of the az
cusation and holds down the office
to the best interests of the public AMI
the voters of this village. The snt'-
ifs case was vindicated at the potts
something over a year ago.
The Appeal is of the same opinion
still, that the red light district should
be where it is. The quarters Wee
established there something over fOr-y
years ago. There has been no crimes
committed, there is no man liv1ng
from the revenues of the shame Of he
women, as the officers have kept the
section cleaned of this sort OF gentry.
For ten years the writer has passed
the houses every night and during that
time has never witnessed a scene
of shame There has never been al
been insulted in a walk past these
houses. Can that be said of the res
pectable districts of this fair city tnat
is threatened with the sudden sprou--
ing of wings?
AS for the new school house. Thee
is no more danger of communicating
morals today than there was durinS
the twenty years of the old school,
which is but a block further away.
There has been a generation of young
people grow and leave the old school
Some of the boys went wrong, as did
few of the daughters, but the lis
trict that was less than four hun l.
red yards away had no more to -
with the ruin of the youth than mas
the writer's in the News. Carson has
sons and daughters that have male
proud names and they graduated with
a hurdy house in this city, but they
had the quality and breeding of ladies
and gentlemen and the thousands OF
temptations that were passed to them
did not ruin their lives.
AS for the officials of the law wink
ing their eye at the drawn curtaI IS
and the "dressmaklng" sign. There
is nothing else to do. There is no Law
so wide open that it can enter home
without a warrant, and should the
landIady care to entertain gentlemen
admirers is there a man in the city
who would go on the stand and tes-
tify that he was one of the admirers
We guess not.
The best protection that the re-
pectable ladies Of tins city have is tn
fact that the houses Of prostitution
are in one small district where tha1
can be under the hand Of the law
Move the women to The four quai*ars
of Carson or send them to some Other
places where the law mas loss acces.
and the crime win double and "a"
son be looked upon as wide opar
town with every quarter in the san;
the skeleton remain buried. The more
the mess is stirred over the hcavlo1
the odor OF course Carson is sue,
a booming town that every inch .
ground room is increasing in valuH
and it is doubtful II room Tor the II!
len can be found
The News accuses the Appeal T.
being the official organ OF the re-
LIGHT district and the sherGs cfic
We viii state tnat the subscribe.
to this paper in both places pa, tho
s9Decrintion every month, which Is
damn sight better than many of tn
other subscribers do.
A Good Place for Him