The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-09-09
POLICEMAN MAKES
STARTLING DISCLOSURE

strange departure OF justice. Men
fill our legislative halls at the ma
TONS capitol and In our state capitol
and In our judiciary they have all to
say. and in our executive branch they
are the ones who execute and
woman. oh wJl.ian, mans mother
and best friend. sister, wife and
child. no language on earth can be
without thy name, has
nothing to say. Her counsel is never
sought In legal affairs. yet some of
these old rakes when faced with the
enormity of their crime, whose deeds
of infamy would sink them in the in
fernals OF the damned that deep that
the meanest culprit there would be
outraged to seek companionship with
them often say 81 would not have
done this but the woman led me into
It," oh, how ! hate these creatures,
how ! wish could paint them in
their true colors. The organ that is
called the human heart has long
since degenerated into wart on
their ribs filed not with rich, red
human blood but instead is filled
with the filth of fostering rottenness
from the cesspools of slime and lust
full debauchery. 1t is strange logic
that such subterfuges as these could
be resorted to, yet II is done. What
can you think of one of these fester-
ing sores on the body politics of a
community who is so low. so coward
", so full of the yellow cur that they
would resort to this. Yet 1t is done.
Woman, entitled to as many rights
as a man and one more, that is the
right of protection is made with her
feeble hands to hold up the dignity
of the law and give 1t the moral
force that commands respect and
obedience and in this she has no
voice in its making, Is a character
istic that belongs to the nude state OF
the cannibal as he dances the cancan
around the fire on which he roasts
his companions flesh for feast.
I hate these moral lepers with
every drop of my blood and | wish to
say in connection with all those who
plead spare my home" "spare my
child" YOU are tying the hands OF the
law and order servant. There Is
truth which is inscribed on the eter-
nal granite of the hills which IS
stamped indelibly on all conditions
that touches us as community or a
city or a people, your surveillance
and protection is enforced to the en-
tent of the moral support which is
back of it wants 1t to be.
There is a home on the outskirts
of the city where young men are the
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to guide it's affairs, where mothers
holy influences are absent These
young men left to themselves are a
lasting lesson to those of us who are
fathers and mothers. | will relate
in brief way few surroundings of
this home that you may see the
depths of dishonor these youths have
fallen to, for one is just II years and
the other a year or so his senior.
Close beside this home is a grave. Its
sole occupant is father to these
young men, resting in the voiceless
silence of the tomb only a few rods
away. Now here is place in this
brief narrative where my heart grows
sick. / feel for the future of these
youths. | hate to relate the facts as
| know them for the reason that 1t
beggars description and is revolving
to know that mere boys can in few
brief years fail to such depths of de-
pravity and degradation. 1t has been
a custom to have midnight orgies at
this home, aided and encouraged by
men older than themselves, some of
them who have homes in the city
hard by, where the woman whom
they wish the world to know to be
their wife and mother of their chill
dren patiently waits. l know of
eight young girls, only one of this
number of legal age, who have been
frequent visitors to the orgies, where
they are made drunk and used for
lustful purposes in a manner when
compared to the brute Weyler in
Cuba during the Spanish-American
war would appear by comparison an
angel of mercy. 1t is a know fact
that some of these young girls have
been kept in this designation house
two nights and a day, and, at the
same time, their fathers and mothers
were looking for them. If by chance
these human jackals could have seen
the anguish of a mothers heart and
father with head bowed with grief
and shame me thinks it would have
created some pity for the woe and
suffering their acts of debauchery
had caused these parents to suffer.
Yet when we recall the account of
their hideous bowls and boisterous
proceedings, gloating over the con-
quest they had gained over these now
helpless girls, entirely at their mercy,
it would put to shame the carnival
of the beasts of prey as he satisfies
his thirst for blood, Jet such was the
condition of this carnage house
where virtue was slaughtered to sat-
isfy the lust of these pirates and as
sassins who felt honored of what
should put burning shackles on them
for their own inhuman acts and
should forever drive them from the
associations of mankind. Yet there
is one more youth in company with
many others who frequented this
place of debauchery whose acts put
him beyond the pale of human SYM
pathy. 1t is known fact that there
is new-made grave close to this i'll
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