The daily Alaskan., 1910-04-01
THE RESTRICTED DISTRICT MUST
 BE SECLUDED.

Both the Citizens and the Tax Payers parties have pledged them selves to decrease the expenses of the public school during the coming year, and both parties have now gone on record as favoriug rigid economy in the conduct of municipal affairs. It is a significant fact, however, that the Tax Payers party in it's platform has stated nothing about it's position in regard to the restricted district, That this is the real issue of the campaign, however, was made plain by the tenor of the speeches at the Tax payers convention; for one of the speakers plainly stated that the town needed a system to get all the money possible" and this same speaker "decried the work of few narrow ehested hypOcrites who had hurt the town and decreased the municipal rev enues."
 The Citizens party in sharp con trast to the eQuivocating methods adopted by the opposition. fairly fac es the issue and in its platform states:
 The Citizens Party recognizes the need of proper regulation of the sO- clal evil, but maintain that if a re- sticted district should be established it must be remote from main ave nues of travel where school children should not be compelled Q pass daily resorts of evil, and we therefore en- doyse the action of the present Coun- ch in closing Seventh Avenue to this form of vice in response to the pet- ton of over one hundred citizens of skagway,"
 It may be tha. prostitution is a necessary evil; that it must be toler- ated and regulated by all communities and municipalities. But if such is the case surely the evil aspects of this vice should be minimized, the dis Tict given over to this sort of thing should be secluded and the women themselves segregated. The Citizens party does not take the stand that there should be no restricted district in Skagway; but the platform does plainly state that such a district must be established in a place remote from the main channels of travel so that young and impressiOnable child ren are not forced to pass resorts of evil on their way to and from school, and in this way almost inevitably have some sort of knowledge of this DefariOus business forced upon them.
 For years the row at Seventh avenue has fairly Haunted its vice in the face Of the town. After nightfall no modest woman cared to risk a walk even on the adjoining streets of Skagway. Tourists and strangers were won't to gaze cynically at the scens and pass caustic comment upon the moral standards of community that would tolerate such a public af- front to deoency. Every man, woman and child in the town was almost daily forced to recognize the exist ance of this evil.
 Last summer, after a petition had been presented which was signed by more than 125 residents of the town, the council very properly took steps to stamp out ths Seventh avenue row"
 Since that action was taken there has been a constant hue and cry against the action of the council, It has been alleged that the business interests of the town have suffered although how such social parasites could make or break any town is not plain to see. It has been urged time and time again that the restrict ed district is a necessity. Several greatly disgruntled property owners,