The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-11-13


tnelr bad element of citizenry. 1t has
always been so from time immemo-
rial and probably always will be 80
to the end of time. And it is equally
true that from the time of the sem
blance of a law being established II
has been the business of executors of
the same to correct the evils of the
people. The day has never been
wren any country or local govern
ment felt that there was no further
need for the executor of law, but in
stead more laws have been made
from time to time in the effort TO bet
ter protect the people who would be
peaceable. 1t is an acknowledged
TACT, however that no law is of ben
eft to the people unless II is en-
forced The contention of many is
mat the American people, or rather
that portion of North America desig-
mated as the United States, has
enough if not too many laws. and
that the need of the hour Is officials
who will enforce the laws already en-
acted This seems to be the trouble
10 degree with the city of Nashville.
There are in this city places that
are public nuisances. Some of these
places are right in the heart of the
city. One only has to pass through
Third avenue between Capitol avenue
and the Public Square to be thorough
y convinced that the element who
Treauent that vicinity need an appli-
cation Of the law. Every afternoon.
and especially on Saturdays, a crowd
cCngregates in and around the sa-
looms and eating houses that COM
pletely blocks the streets. Men and
women boys and girls, the thought
less old and the inexperienced young,
congregated on the sidewalks and in
re streets and crowding in the sa-
'ccns and eating houses, drinking. ca
rousing and carrying on all kinds of
antics. For hours and hours they
stand around these dives, and no one
utters a word. Policemen elbow
their way through the crowd and go
on satisfied to be let alone. So un-
molested they go on in their unseemly
manners, Men draw their wages on
Saturday and drift into this mob and
there drink up their earnings while
in many cases their families are suf-
fering for the necessities of life
Young women are led to destruction
Girls of tender years are allowed
to frequent these dives and are there
started on the road to destruction.
No city in the country has a worse
srectacle To add to the vulgarness
CT The scene, peddlers are allowed to
b load up with tainty meats and rotten
: fish and back their wagons up to the
! sidewalks on Saturdays and swindle
- TIE unsuspecting Wagon-load aft
er wagon-load of meat that has often
been fly-blown, and fish that will
, smell before it has been out of the
= wagon ten minutes, and this, too, In
less than a hundred yards of the city
!, market Thousands of lives arc
u ruined every year by the existence OF
these joints, a public menace that
: goes on without molestation.
Several crimes have been commit
ted in these dives, often resulting In
! death. Only a few weeks ago two
fatal tragedies occurred in this vicin
! ity. The lives of two young mer
were shifted out in a single night. Il
is dangerous to pass through that sec
tion of the city, and especially is thi
true OF ladies', and yet these dens O
vice are on one Of the most promi
nent street in the city. The publi
is suffering as the result Of negli
& @ence on the part of the city of
}. cials, and boys and girls who "
l. thrown out upon a cruel fate q d