The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-02-17

counters are subjected to tempta.
tions not known in the country. A
girl cannot live decently in Chicago
on SIS or $40 a week. Where will
she go for amusement? The public
dance hall with its attractive music
lures. There she will be thrown in
contact with the meanest of all hui
man beings, what is known in Paris
as cadets. They are the agents of
the keepers of disorderly houses 1t
is in the public dance halls that
many girls take the first step that
ends in their becoming white slaves
the inmates of dives. OF all base
creatures, the basest is a fallen
woman. tt is "a lamentable fact that
very few can be reformed. In this
country there are 235,000 of these
creatures, and 5000 to 5000 are in
Chicago. Statistics show that their
lives are short For five or six
years they lead lives of debauchery
trying to forget the past, drowning
their sorrow with liquor and stimu,
lants. Then death comes to stay
the misery of their wasted lives.
Devil and Idle Hands.
1t is an old saying that the devil
always finds something for idle
hands to do. If that day ever comes
when you have nothing to do, you
had better have the court appoint
CONSERVATION for you, for there is
only one in a hundred with charac-
ter enough to go through the world
idle. Most criminals have no trades.
Whether rich or poor, we must have
some object in life. Many sons of
rich men have disgraced their fam.
lily names because they have had
nothing to do.
Many women feed tramps and feel
that they have done right Vagrancy
is a training school for crime, and
feeding the tramp is encouraging
him to be a criminal He is a
petty thief now. Tramps flock to
Chicago by thousands to spend the
winter in the five and ten cent lodg,
ing houses. They are not Baptists,
neither are their laundry bills their
largest item of expense. In the
spring they leave to scatter to their
summer homes, which is the hay
NOW. They carry filth and disease
with them from the cheap lodging
houses and scatter the germs of dis
ease in every direction. Health de-
partments are beginning to look up
on this as a serious matter
Three Glasses Of Criminals.
There are three classes, the yegg-
men, who are the safe blowers and
burglars, the tramps and the hobos.
A yeggman will not associate with
hobo, but will with a tramp, and
the latter calls at the houses and
then tells the yeggmen where and
how to commit their robberies.
There is no charity in this world
without demanding something in re-
turn. The women should organize
bureaus of charities and investigate
every case before acting upon it, or
else introduce the tramp to the
wood pile before giving him any,
thing to eat Self help is the great.
est aid TO character. The speaker
said that he hoped that the women
would aid the courts in trying to do
away with this tramp nuisance.
One-half Of all crime is due to the
use of liquor One of the most
hopeful signs of the times is that
the American people are waking up.
1t is an economic as well as a moral
and social wrong. 1t does nobody
any good sud does harm. The
meanest man to the one referred to
before is the druggist who will sell
opium or cocaine to victim of the
drug habit. Some from the homes
OF the rich are found in the opium
dens. You cannot deceive nature.
You cannot draw check upon ma
lures bank and not have to paw
1T. When you are physically bank
rupt the check will be presented
and your life, will be the forfeit.
Criticism of Newspapers.
The exploitation of crime in the
sensational newspapers is one of the
greatest things that we have to con-
tend with in the large cities. Crime
is started by suggestion, the same
as other things are The speaker
showed copies of the Chicago Amer
lean, Tribune and other papers Civ.
ing an account of the Rector muir.
der. He said that to read Hearst's
papers one would think that ninety.
seven per cent of the people of Chi
cago are cutting, shooting and rob-
bing all of the time. This is the
kind OF thing that makes criminals
among the boys. They come into
court in lunches, sometimes having
these papers concealed ON them.
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