Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-05
LLTNIE habitual drunkard, when occasional
y sober may be, and ;.oatinnnd oltfnal%'s ,nG rSi

has him in its grasp, never again Is any OF these
things He has, so to speak, no lucid intervals
"NIany persons blame physicians Tor the sPreha eau
of This plague, accusing them of mplanting the
habit in patients through administering unneces-
earv doses of the drugs. This may explain 1eW
cases. but believe only few In my opinion tle
drug fiend usually is victim to his own search
for 2 new sensation He knows what he is dolng'
annreciates the danger and enjoys its excitement
Re has exhausted tobacco and alcohol and he hndS
nothing but the drug left him
The social evil naturally a.matter' of consider
able concern to all police officials, has been care
fully studied by Chief Galloway, not Ill ITS Worln-
wide aspect but it presents itself right mere IN
Los Angeles Doubtful at first, he has come TO the
conclusion that the good results obtained through
closing houses of the rcd light district more than
counterbalance the evil; yet he has no deluslohs
on the subject. Some of the women, he says, nave
left the city. Most Of the French, women, he as
serts. have returned to their country, but 9th
ers still are here and have not reformed
''We have accomplished this he said. I'VE
have made it more difficult for these women to
proscer and we have made it more difficult Tor
nossible patrons to find them. OF course the evil,
in it's entirety we never stamp out until hui
man nature is reorganized
"To the best of my belief there is today no white
slavery in Los Angeles. Where there are no
recognized houses of i'll repute white slavery IS
rarely profitable. You appreciate that for
yourself.
81 am not proud of it, but it is true that white
slavery as the term has come to be employed, is
merely the Amercanzation OF French system so
old that nobody knows its origin lhe Frenchman
wrune his support from woman OF the town lie
introduced the idea into this country and the
American improved upon it. If | have two Wo-
men, he figured it out, l will get more money
than I could from one and if have so many wo-
men that can sell one occasionally to some otner
man. will get still more. White slavery is de-
velopment or growth of the macquereauN system
lust as the department store of today is an out
growth from the small shop OF yesterday
81 ike the social evil, gambling we have with us
always. | believe there is no open gambling III
Los Angeles today; no big mitt games, but there
is gambling in the clubs and there always VIII be.
! couldn't get into game, nor can get an ennis
sary of the department into It, but | do not ques-
ton that some gambling is going on all the time
in clubs organized for that purpose and in the big
and fashionable social clubs, where good citizens
and successful business men gather occasionally
for quiet little game.
Under Alexander Galloways administration of
the police affairs of the city, Los Angeles has been
commendablv free from crime; decent, respecta-
BILE municipality offering no field to the muck-
rakerS.
That is an accomplishment of which any man
might we'll feel proud, but Galloway isn't proud
not a bit of it. For man in public life he is singti-
larlv free from illusions and singulary frank Per-
long It's trait, however, that many public serV-
ants would do we'll to cultivate:
The Galloway attitude toward crime, in the alb
stract is the attitude of common sense 1t has no
frills on ii.
When. for instance, he says that gambling never
can be wholly stamped out in city the size OF Los
Angeles he says merely what every police Chief the
country over knows to be true The point is, he
admits it, Most of the others do not
When, furthermore, he adds that the existing
economic system is responsible tor the failure OF
thousands of girls and young women to lead pure
lives he repeats merely the conclusion OF every
man and woman who ever has given the social evil
any serious study. Small wages paid to women
in almost all branches OF employment open TO
them taken together with the present standard OF
living drive more victims into lives of shame than
all other causes combined. Galloway knows that
as we'll as the criminoogist. lie knows, too Where
the real blame should lie and he does not hesitate
to place it there For the woman who sins in this
way and from this cause he has only profound
Dtv: for the employer who underpays her and
thus tremendously enhances the temptation OF the
primrose path he has only profound contempt
Yet he says that no change in the system can
wholly eradicate the evil. To accomplish that, he
admits human nature will have to undergo great
change change which neither church nor state
has ever been able to bring about.
Human nature Galloway says, is a bigger
thing than all the police departments OF all the
cities of the world. Other chiefs know that too,
but they don't say so. Many of them, serving un-
der 'reform administration will assert with
seeming frankness that there is immortality
within their jurisdiction, and they will say it as
though they expected to be believed-amost as
though they believed it themselves.
Alexander Galloway isn't that kind of chief.
He is sngularly frank and has sngularly few u
sions. He knows police department can accom-
pish the impossible and he knows too; that many
things are impossible which ordinarily sup
posed not to be.
Alexander Galloway came to America when he
was fourteen years old To all intents and pur-
poses he is an American He lives at 100 West
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