Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-16


TN Illinois cities | have found that
either the police are having the wool
pulled over their eyes or are hand In
hand with the vice trust. The police
know the location of the various re-
sorts and the shady hotels. as well as
anyone. Why, then, are they allowed
TO exist? I made an Investigation IN
certain city IN this state and in three
days learned more of actual conditions
than the chief of police himself knew.
placed the chief on the stand and
began: I want to compliment you on
your honesty. l have made thorough
investigation and have learned that
you are absolutely on the square. l
have furthermore discovered that YOU
are incompetent. Your men have been
pulling the wool over your eyes, l
then went on TO tell him. that of u
men on his plain clothes SQUAD, eight
OF them were interested in the traffic
and shared the earnings from the
shame of certain individual women"
How about the shutting down on
cabarets in Chicago, governor" ask
ed the reporter. What was your
idea?"
The cabaret as an institution when
conducted along proper lines is per-
fectly proper replied OHara. Our
attack was directed against the OBJ
scene and the vulgar.
IN CHICAGO.
;,l
rant we visited one evening a girl
was placed on the stage with no ap-
parel with the exception of a pair of
glove-fitting tights. Over this was u
dress of the sheerest gauze, which
was just about as opaque as a section
of chicken wire netting. What effect
does that sort of thing have on young
people? However, our crusade was
not conducted against professional en-
tertainers. We wanted to abolish the
promiscuous dancing of patrons in
these so-called high class restaurants.
we raided Rectors one night. and
that is, as you know, one of the real
the tables in the restaurants would
be pushed back and everyone was
doing it, dancing the tango. The
dancing was of the most vulgar and
suggestive kind. Imagine for yourself,
young girl IS years of age, in one
of these restaurants. She does not
drink but her male companion urges
cocktails and wine upon her during
the course of a sumptuous repast.
Then, when her blood is super
heated and she is flushed with excite
ment, she is put through the suggest
i've and alluring steps of the tango. 1t
is wonder TO me that more girls do
not go wrong, with that thing in vogue.
But that was not all. Not satisfied
with the nightly tango, the big restau-
rants put on the dance every after
noon starting at 8 o'clock. Here is
your husband at work while the wife
is in fashionable eatery tangoing.
Perhaps only a harmless Irritation is
started, but in many cases, homes
were wrecked through that agency"
NOT FOUR FLJsHER.
But lot of people say you are
a four fiusher and merely played to the
galleries on that Chicago cabaret bust
ness" ventured the scribe With any
thing but delicacy.
Surely he replied. "They have
accused me of being a grand little adj
vertiser and of seeking to further my
political career by creating a popular
sentiment in my work.
When / hear that I am delighted
because | know | am hurting the men
higher up who are the foundation of
the white slave traffic and the vice
trust Down at Springfield my enemies
tried to buy me and when they could
not succeed, they had woman per-
Jure an affidavit in an effort to ruin
me. My wife and / were never so
happy in our lives as at mat particu-
lar time. because we knew that we
were getting under their hides. Just
the same we have succeeded in raising
the wages of $4,000 Chicago working
girls and have abolished the promis-
cuous dancing of the tango in the res
taurants of that city.
Our efforts are not all aimed at
the professional white SLAYER. There
is the amateur as well, who is usually
an eminently respectable citizen who
takes girl to some other town in
order to carry on his vicious practices
II is the men of good standing in The
community and the leading citizens
who help to ruin hundreds of girls
yearly and ii is because of this that
We will attempt to secure the passage
of the inter-county white slave law in
Illinois. These men of good families
are a real menace to society and must
be checkmated | favor the resurrec-
ticn of the old-sashioned whipping post
for such men. believe they should
be placed in a public pillory and given
a certain number of lashes. Their dis
grace should be paraded before the
public"
Lieutenant Governor O'Hara is
young man. To casually size him I'D
is the one who has done so much 10
Is the one who has one so much 10
crush vice in Illinois. His enemies
are constantly on hi1 trail, and for this
reason he is always accompanied
by a secret servise man. O'Hara IS
an ex-newspaper g;an and has a feel
iup way dou-p ft. his bnart for tt,z -