The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-05-13
Wenatchee's Red Light
District is Discussed
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right, cultured and pure, so that
those who may come after us may be
OF the cleanest and noblest.
Il sometimes wonder that doctors
have any faith in the human kind.
They know US so well from their
study of our features and bodies, and
yet in their nobility they believe in
us.
Once in conversation with profess
scr now attached to the medical de-
partment of the University Of Penn
sylvania, he said: IN six months
have not attended childbirth where
the child born was perfect. You ask
the reason? Tie answer is, LUST!.
"It's LUST that accounts for the
weakened class of children coming
into the world today, and that makes
Red Light District possible. With
the best civilization on earth, we have
the shortest lived people.
And to this Question, Where do
the Recruits Come From
Il asked this question of the city
authorities, and of the police. Their
answers confirmed what / had ex-
pected: Ones answer will suffice,
said he: There is home, we'll say.
It may be home of wealth or pow
erty. There may be plenty of means,
Or but little. In that home is a
aughter-doubtles the idol of the
mothers heart On her the family
spends its savings, teaching her to
play the piano, 10 love dress, and
good time. She must shine in socis-
ty. Ard of course she marries. When
she begins married life she desires to
begin where she left off living with
her parents-enjoying the same
amount of leisure and luxury. She
expects that, though her father and
mother probably began with nothing
and worked up. But her hard-work
ing young husband cannot afford it,
and she soon becomes disconnected.
Finally there is a quarrel-separa-
tion-and the home is broken up.
The next step in her life is to earn
money to buy the clothes, secure the
ease and bodily comfort that she
Graves, and to drown her unhappi-
ness. And all of this because her
parents did not train her as they
should. This is the chiefest source
of recruits who finally end awful
lives of shame in the red light dis
trict
Here is another: A railroad man
sat in his Office one night. All day
a girl had loitered about the station
Late at night, when all H. Sone but
he, she came to the window, and
frankly proposed to him that he and
a few other men should support her.
He asked her to go for drive and
talk it over. Thank God he was
good man, and he won her back to
decency. Found her relatives. and
finally restored her to her family 1t
developed that her sweetheart had
Tilted her, and out of revenge, or
perhaps remorse, she had decided
on this awful life of shame That
girls mind would not have become
so morbid, and she would not have
started down, had her mother taught
her as she should have done.
This is the source then. Through
the degeneracy or neglect of parents,
or through the treachery of some
man.
Il suppose this talk has made you.
think of this district down there.
near the railroad, and the fallen crea-
lures who live there. From the bot
tom of my heart pity them. THEY
ARE LOST! You won't have them
in your home There is no place in
the world for them but where they
are. They are LOST, not one in ten
thousand is ever saved. Unfortunate
yes, that's what they are! They
are there because parents did not do
their duty towards the young lives
which God gave into their keeping
With the rearing up of your little
one you have many solemn trusts.
Building a child's character is the
greatest work in life.
Who Supports the RED Light"
Some of the police told me that
transient" or the city's floating
population supported the red light
community. It's easier to find out who
patronizes the known places than it
is to find out who patronizes the un-
known places.
The same class of people patron
lie the Wenatchee houses as in other
cities. Is 1t the floating population?
No! Listen to these figures. These