Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-28
BLANCHE HEARD
ON CIVIC REFORM
Davenport Leader Is Speaker
at Fall Meeting of Broad
way Club.
GIVES CAUSE OF EVIL
Tells of Conditions in Davenport be-
fore and Since Federation
Cleaned Town.


H BIancke Of Davenport before the
Broadway Mems club in the first fall
meeting last evening. More than 20
members Of the club and their friends
were auditors, and listened with inter
est to every word that fell from the
lips Of the Davenport leader, whose
work as a member of he civic fedora
ton has made him a man 10 be feared
bv the immoral element. In part his
. speech was:
you and !, Nr. Churchman are re-
sponsibIe for the conditions in civic
life today. In the first place we are
not conversant with the laws of our
cities and in the second We do not
enforce them. Should We educate our
selves and learn our ordinances and
then enforce all those except the ones
mapped out by the INSCRIPTIONS poll
tician. We would come TO an ideal con
dition in civic life
CRIMINAL CLASS LEADS.
at is the criminal class that domi-
mates in politics and fills the Offices.
while the vote of the man who strives
for decency is lost by the united effort
of the other element. There is too
much personal attention 10 business
rather than TO the civic betterment.
The decent men are responsible for
crime because they allow conditions to
be as they are and do not seek to bring
about an uplift. Drive out the liquor
traffic and you have Tidded yourself
Of one Of the biggest evils. When l
was a student of Carthage college I
vas one that helped to drive out the
traffic from that place. and today be
cause Of the moral cleanliness there is
not a better place in the land to send
your boy OF girl for education.
ONE 1T 4 TIME.
Strive to secure one thing at time
as we did in Davenport. Do not seek
10 undo the things which have accum-
uiated IN the last - years IN a single
dav. In Davenport we have accom-
plished a great deal FRS We closed
the back door TO the wine room. for II
was through that rear entrance that
scores Of young girls and young men
went down to degradation and ruin
Then We made them remove the front
blinds. They became moral then. ana
said that il would have d had effect
o nthe young people. The next move
"aS 10 'i- me ga room OF tHt ,aoles
anu Sl~'I7 - ''e places W-efe drunk
ards spent the night The hours were
shortened and the saloons were emp
tied on the dot. More dTuuEards for
. the street. bur fewer all around The
number of saloons vas reduced. and
10 gambling oens we're cleaned out
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