The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-31
DIR. MATTHEW'S
ADVANCED VIEW
ADVOCATES RESTRICTED DISTRICT
Points Out in Scathing Sermon
Where Seattle Has Blundered In
Handling the Question.

day morning, placed the burden of re-
forming the city on the taxpayers,
some of whom he called "pious hypo-
critics." and advocated a plan to re-
store the district under what he term
ed moral" conditions. Women wept
when DR.. Matthews told of the unpro-
tected girls who come to the city for
employment only to fall into the
clutches of men who traffic in them.
and he was repeatedly applauded by
handclapping. He took his text from
Romans, 5-6-7, Matthews. 25-31-46,
and John, 21-15-1S, asserting that alb
solute love for God makes man love
his neighbor and work for his saliva
ton. Mayor John f. Miller was pre-
sent at the service.
You tell me- said DR.. Matthews.
that you love God, that you are Chris
tians. If you are, then l have the
right to demand that you show me
proof. If you love God. feed my
lambs. protect the unprotected, rescue
the perishing, lift the fallen. love the
unlovable and save the unsaved.
| You tell me the problem of white
slave traffic is a stupendous one. May
be it is. if you say i. is one of social
reformation. | admit it is a Hercul-
can task, and from the human stand
point you can't reform Seattle or any
other city. You can't reform society
except by changing your own individ-
ual lives.
I'VE don't need reformation. but
REFORMATION. 1t is not reformation
| tl,n< 81, l.
ton, If individual personal results in
the city will clean it, While it is true
that the reformation of city may be
a great task, it is your duty to use
your God-given powers and make it
as clean as possible for city to be
made. This city must be cleaned. re-
formed and purified, and if every
Christian in this church will do his
duty. the task can approximately be
accomplished.
Not Business Of Government
You tell me it is the business of
the city government to drive out the
vicious elements and clean up the So
cial atmosphere. l admit it, but it
doesn't relieve you of your response
bility. Why do you say it is the BUSH
ness of the municipal government?
You know you are not sincere in your
statement, because you are not willing
to increase the police force to the linn
it allowed by the charter. You are en-
titled to one officer for every 1000 of
the population. and that means uni
formed, active policemen on the
streets, not lot of clerical men or Of
fetal nonentities. You have about 1872
policemen, when the charter allows
2S5. When we ask you to give us the
legal limit of police you taxpayers i'm
medately say, 1T is too expensive
Taxpayers Cry Expense
eff we had 2S5 policemen and it
cost 100000 a year to maintain the
department, the money would be well
spent. If the entire force spent all
the year in saving the hayward girl,
if that hayward girl was your dau-
ghter, you would be willing for the
city to spend this money. but because
| it is for the general good and YOU are
not personally interested and you
can't have your little personal graft
you cry against municipal expenses
and beg the people to keep the taxes
down.
Il am talking this morning to men
who are worth large sums of money,
but let me tell you you never made a
dollar of it, Your brain and your
Drawn did not increase your wealth.
The city grew up around your little
property and made every dollar YOU
have, and you owe it's increased incre-
ment to the city, its welfare and de-
velopment. You stopped acting the
pharisee, the hypocrite and the pious
CRATER when wealth was poured into
your pockets. After you got the
money without effort you became ex-
| ceedingly pious and wanted to throw
the burden of the city's reformation
and salvation back on the shoulders
of the municipality
I'VE theorists. well-meanine. good
moral people, demanded the abolition
of the restricted district What was,
accomplished? You sent the fiends
from hell all over the city into board
ing houses, residence districts and
your business quarters
There is nothing in the world that
VIII corrupt the police quite as quick
ly as the vicious characters who go
into the residence districts. private
hotels and apartment houses and i'm
mediately seek out the policeman on
the beat and attempt to bride him to
secure immunity from arrest and pros
cution.
with this state of things, it is al
most impossible to detect the men and
women who are dealing in white
slaves. Standing before every employ
ment office in this city are men who
are watching for girls seeking employ
ment. There are nearly 1000 detach-
ed. unprotected girls in this city. the
girls without domestic protection.
They are the prey of infamous scoun-
drels seeking an opportunity to en-
trap them. Your own wife or dau-
ghter is not safe.
Solution of Problem
But We may handle this problem
by segregation. confinement and alb