Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-20
SEGREGATION R |;|jlI|'|| On An |! \ AID All! To
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

emo 0lLcCI COnuuCt. CuSIOm once pTACIls
cally constrained the French students. In
the Latin quarter to swim with the cur.
rent; now It has become possible to lead
a blameless life without mourning con.
tempt for his idiosyncracy: an impass-
Toned literature appealing to the German.
student has made Its appearance. The
woman's movement will unQuestionably
destroy the passivlty Of German women
In respect to masculine Irregularities.
The: task OF developing confluence in ma.
lions habituated to Indulgence is one OF
iexpressible difficulty; but it may be
fairly said that now for the first time 1t
has been deliberately faced o n the Cont
nent by q small but canest band Of men
and women rent upo the p%urlficatio Of
life" 90"
The volume treats ut length Of the in.
scribed or registered women Of various
European cities. plying their, trade under
police license. and brands the system q
failure. Only n fraction Of these women
are enrolled. -,
Moreover" he says, the streets from
which the licensed n has agreed to
withdraw are not infrequently those
where she is most Mt home: and a large
loophole for police favor and corruption
il thus created BY the existence of rules
only occasionally and capriously enforc.
ed But other consequences follow. What
Is allowed to the inscribed cannot be for
hidden to the uninscribed; it is not in
human nature to forbid to the one what
IL SO freely allowed to the other. The
very fact that 5000 inscribed women are
legally entitled to patrol most streets in
Paris and are suffered to patrol the oth-N
ers, makes It impossible for the police to
act vigorously and continuously against
six or eight times as many clandestines
who avail themselves Of the same priv
ilege. IF
'In respect to street order, regulation
lie, therefore,, in my Judgment, a hindr-
ance, not a help. for it is at wa with its
own avowcd. object. Consequently mo-
regulated city possesses streets as free
from scandal as the streets Of Amster-
dam. Zurich and Liverpoor-all non.re-
gulated cities, In which a consistent and
thofoughgOlng course Of action bearing
on all women alike Is feasible" tf
70; the licensed house. Mr.: Nexncr
says. public opinion in Europe Is becom-
ing increasingly hostile. "Atnthe present
time ne says. they are permitted In
France, Belgium. Austria.H Hungary and
Italy; forbidden in the German Empire,
Holland. Switzerland excepting Geneva)
Denmark. Norway. Sweden and Great
Britain. In France and. Austria no furth.
|4er concessions will under any. circum.
stances be grated; ad whoever such a
place closes, the istitution liz so much
near extinction"
The vast majority of depraved women
in Europe live untouched by police con-
troll. notwithstanding the license system,
ksays the Investigator. This skaters the
prevalent idea that licensed resorts at.
feet segregation. segregation Is not un-
dertaken' III any Europea city from Bud.
apest to Glasgow. Segregation is. there
fore. impractlcable. more than this. any
attempt to bring 1t about r. also recog-
nlzedfto be .fnadvisable. Ii, the first place
the Himpossibflity OF tnproughness creates
an obvious opportunity for police cor
ruptlon; q woman who objects to being
lsegregated may for an adequate consld-
eratlon Induce the police to overlook her
and as hundreds are bound to be over.
looked anyway, the chances OF detective
fraud are slender. Again, a segregated
quarter would give to vice, the greatest
possible prominence. Finally, it would
expose to moral contagion those who are
already most imperilled and whom every
consideration Of interest n decency
should impel society to protect-the chill.
dren of the poor. For the segrated quar-
ter will inevitably be located where
rents are low and where the %neighbors
have least influence" -
On the whole, Mr.. Fiexner is of the
opinion that regulation Of any sort is
calculated to increase the value of i'm
morality. The existence Of regulation. he
says. amounts to a tacit admission by
the state that the business is in a sense