The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-08-12

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All of which proves beyond the
shadow Of a doubt that the govern
ment ownership Of railroads, the
abolition Of child labor and the es-
adjustment Of economic Justice. in the
earth would be a miserable failure. !.
What are the facts? 49,.
In the first place the enforcement
of the laws governing the liquor traf-
fic in Milwaukee,, ais well as; the re-
gulatton of vice and crime, are lin the.
hands Of the police department The
police department is controlled by a;
chief, who is not only notea Socialist,
but who is bitterly opposed to So
cialism and to- the Socialist admins
tration Of the city. He is as bitterly
opposed. to- Socialism as the National
Prohibition1st appears to be. Arid,
the laws, of the state, for which the
Socialists are not responsible, have
put the police and the police depart
nent beyond the control Of the So7,
cialists. ~s >,~.-- '-1SEt - 81 r. -
In the second place., as to the ac-r
tual conditions, the milwaukee, Free
Press of May 9th, 1911, reporting
meeting held in this city for the dis.
cussion of the social evil, at which
Dean Herbert l.. Willett of the Chi.
cago university, and the Rev. Freder-
lex Edwards, Of the Episcopal church,
were prominent participants, says:
"Chief Jansen said that the segrega-
ton and the control of the social
evil in Milwaukee are complete and
absolute; that the women are not per-
mitted to go on the streets in loud
clothes, they may not ride in open
carriages, drink in saloons, go into
residence districts or solicit on the
streets: that in Milwaukee there are
no stall saloons and there are no
cadets or men who live on the earn
ings: of shame. That this gentry. is
hustled out Of town or to the house
Of correction; that there is no noise
or none Of the allurements of open
revelry in the segregated districts of
Milwaukee. Milwaukee, in short, is
the quietest, most orderly and most
moral city of its size in the world"
So. much for the testimony of the
chief of police Of the city Of Milwau-
kee. Now let Mr.. Prohibitionist and
Mr.. CHEZ of Police scrap it out. It
is not our fight. We as Socialists are
neither opponents of the methods
used by the chief of police Of Mil
waukee in the regulation of vice and
crime. nor are we opponents of the
methods proposed by the Prohibition
list. The Prohibitionist claims that
Milwaukee is the worst town in the
world. ,"'he chief Of police claims it
is the bost. .,..: 80.
After perusing the~ interesting re-
port Of the Prohibitionist on the cons
Editions in Milwaukee, I asked the
chief Of police to give me his authors
tK for = the statements. THAT ohe had
made. He replied by calling my, at
tention to what ne said were the la
test reliable and complete statistics
on the subject, the statistics of cities
compiled by the department. of COM.
merce and labor, prepared in 1907
found on pages 40 and 418. These
show that while Milwaukee ranks
thirteenth in population it ranks
thirty-fOurth as to total number of
arrests, and thirty-first as to the num-
Der of arrests for drunkenness. There
are but twelve cities in America: show
ing a percentage of arrests lower than
that of Milwaukee,. The average ar
rests for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct per one thousand of popula-
ton in cities of 100000 or over, was
55.26, while the average arrests per
1000 population in Milwaukee was
only 1886 in 1907, and in 1910 this
average had fallen to 1928. In other
words, drunkenness and disorderly
conduct in Milwaukee according to
official government reports, is only
about one-third per one thousand of
population as great as the average in
all of the other American cities of its
size, and, larger = ~ - ~.
And so. far as the social evil is con-
cerned,- the chief of police declares:
''The conditions In Milwaukee are GER
tainly no worse, If not better, than in
any large city in the world. This as
surance Is based on observations and
Information. acquired from q 5period Of
twenty years. No reliable statistics
are obtainable on this subject" And
as to gambling the chief declares:
There is no gambling publicly In
Milwaukee, So g. .-'* -
:; Some day the Socialist party per-
haps will secure q sufficient control
in the city OF milwaukee, and III the
state legislature to get control Of the
police department: When this hap
pens the Socialist party may then be
held responsible. .;*%s5 r.. ''n. y.
But what is vastly more important,
some day the new social order of
Socialism, the higher civilization
which is its purpose to achieve. will,
be established. In the new. environ+;
ment OF that day, a healthier and q
happier humanity will be reared. On,
that day we shall give back to the
working class q childhood sacred, to:
education and play; q womanhood,
redeemed from the DEVILS dilemma Of
degrading toll Or sexual damnation; d
| manhood armed with the conscious
power OF fully req,lited foil. On that
day we shall give to him that tolls
q home, a father, mother, wife. chill
dren, and at least some leisure, some
music some Joy, some beauty. some
hnnn :.f11rIa a home ~ fanf ~, = tn,,cJ,