The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-03-07

thcsC houses ana Aakeu TOT hhHlal-
anco In his work, A second came,
with the result announced IN Sat
urday's paper
The Daily Panhandle is a nowspa.
per, and as such gave the version Of
the rangers In Saturdays Issue, It
now herewith gives the statements
OF the citizens above referred to and
wishes to give its own ideas on the
situation,
The editor Of the Panhandle has
resided IN cities from tho size Of
Amarillo, to $4,000 and $4,000, and
has conducted or managed daily pa.
pcrs continuously for tho past TWEEN.
ty-flyc years, lie has resided In Am
arillo for only four months, but he
is frunl, to say, from his observations
that he has never resided In more
orderly city of It's size in all his years
Of newspaper work, lie has never
resided in a city where the saloon
business was conducted better and
more orderly; whore there was less
drunkenness, brawls and fights;
where there were less burglarIcs, and
less police business for the size Of
the place than in Amarillo, We have
been told that the houses across the
railroad dump, are houses Of prosti-
tuition and that section is the scarlet
section Of the city, but as We have
had no business there, wo do not
know this to be true, Of our own
! knowledge, In so far as the conduct
Of the women on the streets is con-
ccrned, we have never seen a woman
or girl on the streets We could pick
out or suspect Of being a prostitute,
or dissolute character. We never
lived in a city whore a lady was more
safe on the streets alone, and was
less liable to insult than IN Amar-
lilo
All OF which is a credit to the city
administration, and the excellent city
and county officers In whose keeping
the good order OF the city is placed.
The Daily Panhandle sees no need
of rangers, or any other outside of
ficers in Amarillo. The city is above
the average of such sized cities in
its morals, and we know of no real
reason why any citizen should COM
plain to outside authorities for Off
GERS to come here and interfere with
the policing of the city,
This paper believes the officers of
the city and county amply able and
willing to do their duty in the en-
forcement of the laws and does not
believe that the presence Of the rang
gers is desired by even very small
proportion of our citizens.
We have seen the question Of the
social evil discussed in all its DIFF
ferent phases, in the cities where we
have resided and invariably when
houses Of prostitution are driven
from a remote portion of city,
they soon spring up in less desr-
able quarter. The social evil is one
all good people will dscountenance,
but experience in managing cities
and honesty, instead of hypocricy in
the handling of these vexatious ques-
tIons, must reach the conclusion that
the evil will ever exist, as long as
flesh is weak, and the best way to
control and minimize is the best way
of handling such evils, by munich
pallties, and we think Amarillo has
acted wisely in the handling of them
in the past, and up to the present,
The report that rangers are nee
essary to control crime in this city
Is not true, They are not needed
here. We have good moral city
compared with other cities and are
proud Of the fact. The remark is
heard Iaily from strangers that they
never saw city OF its size, which
is more orderly, has less drunken.
ness and crime, than Amarillo.
The Panhandle is not in favor oil
prohibition, as long as liquor is man.
uractured. Neither is It in favor OF
driving prostitutes from an out Of the
way part Of the city and finding them
occupying houses among the best res.
licences of the city. They may be
driven from place to place, and pos
sibly from the city for time, bu'
they will return, and until dsCov
cred, may reside among the best
homes of the city, We have seer
prohibition tried by Iowa, and aban
doned as a failure. We have seer
prostitutes driven from a segregated
portion of city, and occupying
rooms and residences among the best
people OF the city, until discovered
al.