The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

likely to be placed in Jail and for
gotten for thirteen months? This
may be done in any city where ar
bitrary power is exercised by the
police.
During 1888, the police arrested
III the city of Chicago, 5O,432, of
this number 1900 were under
twenty years of age. Only 2,192
out of the entire number were held
over. Under such administration
what parent may not have the
name of his son stained by all I'M
lawful arrest?
Upon this question, hear Justice
William Gaynor, afterward Mayor
Of New York. He says i'll the
North America Review, 1908, One
recent instance suftices to show the
false idea of the right and power to
arrest and iinprison without war
rant which exist i'll the police de-
partmcnt of New York. In Octo-
Der police captain came into a
magistrates court with large
batch of prisoners whom he had ar
rested and locked up in prison over
night, without warrant. He
told the magistrate that he wanted
them all committed to prison till
after election, lest they should re-
gister and VOTE No security,
but danger, comes to community
from this method of administration
To claim that it is done for good
of society does not change results
Results equally disasterous fol-
low, when the legitimate right and
power is disregarded, and evil con-
doned. George Keenan, in Nc.
Clure's of Nov. 1909, speaking of
San Francisco said:-"The saloons
generally, had thrown off all re-
straints of law. brothels, gambling
dens and designation houses multi
piled and flourished under admin
istrative protection; women lured
men to dives and dead falls. and as
sisted in the work of dragging and
robbing them; charges brought a
gainst lawbreakers were dismissed
or indefinitely postponed, by police
commission and police courts; hon
est officers who tried to enforce
the laws were transferred to quiet
and unimportant residence dis
tricts.'
Thus experience teaches us that
constitu tional rights used to secure
selfish ends, or constitutional
rights used to resume good or bad
results never give to society sense
of security.
In the face of this Ellensburg
municipality licenses (practically)
prostitution, one Of. if not the
greatest evil known to society; and
we are told that this is done in or
der to secure protection for society.
Paul needs to return and revise his
once inspired message that now has
become back number, in that he
taught that we should not do evil
that good may come. Ellensburg
teaches that we ought to grant to
prostitutes the right to entrap all
they may, to sell liquors by night
and by day, on Sunday or Monday
at their will, without any license;
all for the good of society.
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE IN
THE FIELD OF Social IMPURITy.
Inherent in society is the right
to social purity, and with it the
right to defend the same. Any
statute having reference to the pur-
ity of society, not originating in
the inherent right thereto, must,
of necessity, be an unconstitutional
statute measured by the standard
to which we are as municipalities
committed by oath, such statutes
have their origin in assumed att
thority.
For this reason, and because
morality is a recognized essential.
without which social safety and
prosperity are impossible. all courts
of high standing have enunciated
the above declared principle.
Below are few of the many de-
cisions to be found on record. u. S.
l0l, page "a. No legislature can
bargain away the public health
or public moras. The people them
selves can not do it much less their
servants. Government is organized
with view to their preservation,
and can not divest itself of the
power to provide for them
Of course we know that govern
ment does bargain away the public
health, and especially the public
morals. Ellensburg is doing that
now for the revenue. But by the