Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-01

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A FeW Remarks

BY WALTER B. HILTON


sble to minimize entirely possible Any city govern
ment wipe out the visible evidences of bust
ness with little tEoubef the officials really desre But
they must have the real desre they must the end
! have the courage to press toward the end.
To close the front doors Of the haunts of sin is not
enough The places not in themselves the 50
much as they the effect If the that brought
about this effect permitted to continue then similar
effect will come.
III Wheeling have establishments like the Neural
s. line plant paying girl employees less than the cost of
honest living We have the large department stores pay
ing clerks less than the cost Of living These are the chief
offenders. Then we make no provision whatever, a
pleasures left entirely in the hands Of private ndvi
duas who cater to them for the private profit there is
it. We should not wonder then if girls Rugged
III the Shiny arms OF vice in year..
We must to be hypocrtes to solve this
problem We must face the facts and have the courage to
combat them 1t is lazy and cowardy thing to lay the
blame upon the girl victims They but little babies
once as you have been innocent and pure of mind as
babies must be- Conditions which they had little or
no control, environment which they not strong
enough to overcome shaped and fashioned their lives into
the hldeOus thing it is today.
No matter who where is, the place and charac-
ter result of the search for pleasure The only diff
degrees OF strength of mind One resist temptation and
another surrenders and yet both actuated by the
motivethe desire for pleasure The self infection of
physical mental penalties brings pleasure to the sup
posed sufferer or they would not inict them If re-
sst temptation and the thing know evil it is only
because we are wise enough to know that surrender
ing back temporary pleasure but revelng the
anticipation of greater pleasure in the end.
That this last is best there are honest men and
women who dispute who argue that the is the
only reality and that it is not sensible conquer
or subdue single pleasurable emotion But the facts of
life do not bear out this theory bees and ants and
squirrels would never lay up winter stores beavers would
build no DAMS and the hens would hatch eggs.
false theory of life come quite easily into a
mind surrounded with false environment In an en-
vronmen where vice seems to be rewarded with silks
and satns while virtue is it's reward it is easy for
physical or mental prostitute girl CRATER to think
might as well have the game as the name''
1t is the philosophy of ignorance, but it is no wonder
that have it. since all sources Of information have
been clogged with it for generations. Our hundred mil
daily upon heads until their alseness smothers and
cannot breath the air of truth We grope gno
ance toward the professors and the pulpit only to @ that
the powers that control most papers also endow
eges and lay tributes of stolen gold upon the affairs And
you wonder that million women prostitute them
Selves The wonder is that many stay beautifully
pure!
Vice in Wheeling does not now never did and uel er
will depend upon couple dozen madames 'Madames''
are but merchants, supplying demand Were there mol
market there would be no "madames While there is al
demand and profit in supplying the demand there will
be those who will take the chance for the profit and the
greater the chance of penalty thgreater the profit
saloon can be changed into speakeasy or club and an
open house OF can be changed into secret haunt of
vice. but the best that be claimed for this is that is
minimizing
That this is in itself good none will DENY. Omen
commercial vice sets myriad trap for the unway and
unknowng pleasure seekers for the vendors of vice are
urged on always by their incentive Of private profit And
business from whom they buy they can lay heavy
coins upon the eyes of the journalistic Argus n they
see not neither do they raise armpus Because some of
the leading stores of Wheeling have thousands Of dollars
wo' tn of accounts in the towns segregated district we
see the entire business opposition to the moral wave
Buried IN the alleys vice is not dangerous to so II
many It attracts with its gilt and glitter The Mcclure
grill is more dangerous to morals than Twenty third
street because Twentythid street is so much less at
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deliberately dig down to it.
But therss harder task than simply this before the