The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-25

snd oWlet's wing and he viii finJ
/ it difficult to avoid falling into the
role of "McDuff." in order that truth
and iastiee may prevail.
Surely, the EeopIa of Cairo have
been compelled to pay a heavy price
for Mayor Parsons police nolicy-the
policy of the vain, ambitious. reck-
less, not to say unscrunnous, pol.ti-
clan; and when now they are called
upon TO charge the blame for the evils
| II brought upon them to tine men AMI
women who persistently and vehe.
lmently protested against that policy;
when hypocrisy and falsehood arise
dirty and guilty, bloody and bold. go
/ ing abroad to procure a newspaper
Istrumpet because at home, where the
truth was known, none could be had
and none could be debauched-o e
would think the limit Of shameless ar
rogance has been reached.
1t would be folly to reply to the
Cairo election" screed printed last
week in the Pulaski Tribune, were it
mot that II may be accepted as true
and tend to mislead people away from
Cairo. EvEry"0 one in Cairo knows 1t is
false in nearly every sentence, from
its headlines to its Gloss For the bene-
fit of readers away from Cairo a few
of the grosser falsehoods ought to be
pointed out.
The Social Purity League Joins
Hands with the Lowest Buns" is the
headline. The Social Purity League
.of Cairo is composed of half a hun
bred or more church people, men and
women whose ideals Of life are prob
ably higher than the average man in
a cosmopolitan community can live up
to. II was called into being by reye.
lations of gross evils in the red
light" district, in which a number OF
young boys, mere children, were vic
tims-evils which prevailed because
Of police neglect The league has un
dertaken the task Of Kidding the city
of the social evil and its efforts are
about to be successful so far as the
abolishing of the most notorious
street is concerned and so far its
work has been good. Whether it will
succeed in its ultimate purpose re.
mains to be seen If it does 1t will
accomplish something in Cairo which
has not been accomplished anywhere
else But the Social Purity League is
not in politics and had nothing what
ever to do with the late city election.
1t was the Citizens League which
undertook to bring about the election
of men to the city council who would
stand for cleaner government and
that league is composed OF fifty rep
resentatiye business men, appointed
by the Cairo Board of Trade and
Cairo Commercial Club, Cairo's two
strongest commercial organizations.
~ Is this body Of fifty representative
business men which the dictator or
writer of the story in the Tribune
means to charge with all the vile
things that go TO bear out the head
line; but he was too cowardiy to name
III, preferring rather to vent his spleen
against men and women who compose
the Social Purity League,
All but one OF the men endorsed by
the Citizens League were elected;
and Mayor Parsons, seeing "the hand
writing on the WALL" yielded to the in.
evitable by aiding in their election,
even though two Of them. Aldermen
Greaney and Cannon, had incurred his
extreme dspleasure because they
stood for the people in passing the
lower waterrate ordinance. The one
instance in the election In which fair
and square issue was ale between
The mayor and the Citizens League
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