Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-02-01
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Hot shot from Jerry.

Of The Bee: In your report in this morn
ing's issue Of what usnspired at the
Conference Of Charities and Correction"
you mention that Rabbi Coin on Social
/ Evil" read letter from a former depart
ment manager Of an Omaha public service
corporation, telling what became OF fifteen
girls who worked in the office. One COM
mitted suicide, the letter states, one is IN
( the penitentiary, one is a professional
courtesan and two are on the way. A wei
known politician who has filed for COM
missioner is responsible for the downfall
OF one OF the girls. said the letter. After
reading the foregoing deplorable and dis
graceful statement describing where a
third Of the girls have gone. or are going
TO worse than suicide. readers won't you
ask yourselves. Is there any honor or
virtue in the nation!
| Fellow citizens. you are confronted with
a problem or conundrum which is worse
ami more shameful than the trusts. II can
be stopped; at all events, II can be
checked. Boycott the loose fish" OF your
associates. don't keep company with them.
expose them, put them In the same
category Of the grafters. thieves and muir
derers, for they are the worst kind OF
murdeTers.
The virtuOus women and girls don't
Keep company with the demorslized of
their sex. Why should honorable men as
ISOLATE with the prostitutes OF their sex?
Is the unfortunate woman ION the town"
any worse than the CRATER and the man
Of loose virtue? Ill bred, pampered
scoundrels, new class of vagabonds,
whose bad morals have been kept from
the public gaze through political influence
and their supposed standing In society.
The good women, God bless them. can
assist materially In suppressing boodllnE,
grating and the social evil They won't
accomplish any practical results by bogus
resolutions throwing their old petticoats
as mantle Of charity and chastity over
our modern General Frederick Funston
and his shotless warriors swimming the
( Bag Bag IiNer-when he could not swim
10 capture Aguinaldo playing craps. Why
make fish OF one and flesh Of another?
suppress a negroes crap game and raid
Chinsman's chop suey joint and pass
up the high-toned dives that are patron
ised by the elite OF society" where ex-
hibitlons Of the hooche kooche. the turkey
trot. Harlem Tommy. Texas Tommy the
grizzly bear. the billy goat, bunny hug,
the walla walla wiggle and the Honolulu
hula. and worse. are In full blast.
South Omaha is located In Douglas
county and this supposed reform society
official whose ancestral pedigree and his
method Of suppressing crap games, grlz-
ely bears, chop suey joints and billy goats
is published and spread broadcast, can
find a municipal poker game and other
games any old time in this city. Perhaps
his political groomeT in the city hall
would tell him all about the games pro-
vided It would not injure the political
aspirations of his friend. the midnight
ordinance statesman, who is an aspirant
fer the state senate.
II would be a political blessing to clean
the Augean stables of the two omahss
even II amateurs had to be elected TO
office, Fellow citizens, yours Is the op-
portunity. You are In as great serfdom as
when Patrick Henry uttered those In
spring words, Give me liberty or giye
me death"
In this text have not referred to the
Judges and lawyers. l -ead in The Bee
that c. p. Connolly is attending to those
worthless.
Nevertheless, there Is another class OF
my fellow citizens who occasionally get
wrought UP over trifles. whose memory /
desire to jog-the elergymen Of all de-
nominations aud the good women OF the
women's Christian Temperance union
by telling them. fearing that they don't
know, that low wages have made more
drunkards and prostitutes than all the
saloons In the nation.
JERRY HOWARD.