Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-02
\ CITIZEN WANTS OFFICER ID
 ARREST ALL
Douglas Internationally

al house cleaning which is now un- der way in Douglas, just as 1t is in many other cities Of the land, was received by the International this morning and is wiIlinsly published, To the Editor- If you will kindly allow me iittlel space in your paper I would like toI make a few remarks In your paper published last night I saw an article headed Uptown Raid is Successful. Now if the police are just beginning to make such raids let them keep itI up. But don't let them stop at sim ply arresting women from the tea derloin. It is a well known fact that there are just about as many women soliciting on the line as there is on 1t. Now 1 believe the women on the line pay a license. They have just as the women who do solicit there and do not pay a license. It is a hard matter to make any fair minded person believe that the person who Is running a rooning house cannot tell whether there are women in the house or not I know of one case where there were flve women in the house and the next night there were two women there. Now if anybody can tell me that the person running that house did not now that these women were there, they will have toI show me. The proprietors of the houses in the tenderloin abide by the law and, while the police are making raids let them make those people ei- ther go on the line or quit the busi- ness If Chief Lies and his men "sit up and take notice" they can rid the city of a number of street walkers, who do not pay license. It would have been too bad if those women arrested in that raid had been married women who have com fortable homes and live in Douglas. It is true that the women arrested were women off the line, but they had just as much right there as any women under the circumstances. A little detective work on some of the people outside of the tenderloin won't be a bad idea. I believe in giving the people on the line square deal Now I do not want to take anybody's part in this matter. but give Justice to All"
 When former Governor Folk was .E4y ha And hal Any community usually gets the sort of government and law enforce ment which it wants, even if 1t does not get the sort of government it de serves he also told of having re ceived 6 letter similar to the above and of having turned the letter over to the sheriff with good results.
 With the above remark in mind and the action of the Missouri refor- mer as an example the above letter was shown to Chief Lilies and Consts- ble Clark by an International report CT On this subject Chief Lilies said:
 T am in earnest and peo- pie like Justice to All" can help. He states a case where women were in a lodging house on two different nights. If he had noti. fled the police of this at the time Of its occurance instead of waiting til afterwards and writing to the news paper we should have taken prompt action and he would have aided in law enforcement as every good citi- zen should who desires to see the law enforced.
 Much that is said in the letter is true. We are confronted, however with the difficulty of proving. It is one thing to say that the proprietor of a rooming house ought to have known but to prove actual eogni zance in court is the problem which eonfronts uss The citizens can help us if they siH and if any citizen who wants the law enforced will make Il his or her business to give us an. such information as that letter con tains they will always find us read! to act"
 Constable Clark also spoke on tht subject and said:
 We officers are under oath to eu force the law. We want to do it.
 speak for myself and I speak for tn others. The public must recogniz one thing however. We have t have evidence. To see the same VI man frequently or even habituall, on the streets is not enough. W must prove her there with wrong 1T tent before we can obtain a convic ton. Any respectable woman has
 right to room in any rooming house We can not arrest until we cal prove immoral conduct. Citizens o ten stumble upon just the evidenc we are constantly working to obtain If they want law enforcement the will give us this information at tn proper time. If they do not wan law enforcement they will keep quie and wifi blame the government an it's officers. If the people of Dougla will help they can have the cleanes kind of clean government. If the v1ll not help they will have to b
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