The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-07-05
MURDER WILL START
WAR ON SYBARITES
Campaign Against Moral Per-
verts to Grow Out OF
Killing Of White.
HIS STUDIO WAS a DIVE
There and Elsewhere by Rich clubmeu
Young and Foolish Girls Are Led
to Destruction-Was Under
Police Surveillance.

New YORK.. July 2,-The murder OF
Stanford White last Monday night by
Harry Thaw is going to bring about
a war on moral perverts in New York
Anthony Comstock, Of the Society for
the Prevention OF Vice, has already be-
gun work on this crusade, as Harry
Thaw a taken him into his conf
dence two weeks before the murder.
II will drive every moral pervert out
Of New York." said Mr.. Comstock last
night.
Let me repeat that the moral per-
vert must go. The murder of STAN
ford White has given us an opening
wedge that we have long needed.
This investigation must go on now
vor, no matter how rich or how prom
inent or how brilliant HI perverts may
be. The trails will lead into the most
exclusive clubs, and many a man who
has been generally held In the highest
esteem must be tumbled into the mire,
where he belongs.
IF all the things 1 have heard about
Stanford White, or half Of them. even.
are true, he richly deserved his fate at
the hands Of young Thaw.
Whites Studio a Dive.
Complaint was made to me about a
ear 6 of the vile proceedings in his
studio in the tower Of Madison Square
Garden. We We're quite certain that
young girls were being led there to
their ruin.
"The outrage Of such behavior ON
the part Of a man Of Whites wealth
and prominence impressed the society.
and two men were detailed to vs@tol,
the studio. That this might be aeYe
more effectively, AN attempt was made
to rent a studio in the tower, but this
proved impossible. The only reason
White was not arrested for these esca-
pades was that the evidence was not
complete.
''Thaw called on me several weeks
g to tell me Of White. He explained
his own trouble and told OF many
young girls whom White had ruined
clared he had the proof. He was much
worked up over the whole affair and
the news Of the tragedy was not a
great surprise to me.
Thaw as q Reformer.
II really believe that Thaw was ac-
tuated by b very best Of motives in
this matter. 1 agreed with him, when
we discussed it, that moral peryerts
should be driven out of the city and
ward to protect young girls from these
rich and influential men,"
Mr.. Comstock was unable at the time
to give the names I'M dates of the
cases cited by Thaw in his complaint
against Stanford White. They were
with the other records of the society
in his Nassau street office. He offered
to give the fullest Investigation to any
evidence Of ~perverSion which the news.
papers might bring to him.
AS the authorities begin to probe into
the private life of White, they no long
er marvel that he was shot down last
Monday night.
Girls Victims of cIubmen.
The investigation has already shown
hat there is all organized band of rich
clubmen n artists Who make victims
Of young girls of the stage, Of the shops
and Of the poorer homes. Their treat
ment Of these girls, many Of them mere
children, is too brutal Tor descrip-
ton.
Little parties" is the way the de-
voices love to characterize their revels
The police are now probing for details
as to the hosts and guests at the little
parties"
Chief among the episodes recalled
last night in the Tenderloin, in which
Stanford White and his band of croniee
in social and ~socalled art" circles
figured so prominently, were the din
ners given by two Of his closest friends,
James Lawrence Breese, the society
artist. and Robert Reid, the noted
clubman n ecclesiastical decorator.
Thaw sent a message, from the Tombs
to Anthony Conlstock, president Of the
society for the suppression of vice yes
terday, saying he had received a let
ter which it woula pay Mr.. Corlstock
to Investigate. An agent Of the society
called upon Thaw, but was not admit
ted. It was a that either the agent
or Mr.. Comstock himself may see ThaW
today.