Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10

accorded by certain officials, newspa-
pers and citizens is the same as we
meet from certain classes everywhere.
We work along the most advanced
lines of civic betterment, obtaining the
truth. placing it before the public and
demanding that the citizens unite with
us in requiring that the officials do the
work for which they are paid.
We are not police power: we are
not an adjunct of any department of
public service. Our work is to serve
by introducing and securing the pass
age of reform measures and to aid
in obtaining the execution of such
laws. That which we have secured in
the way of knowledge of the fragrant
violations of laws and of conditions
making for vice could easily be secured
any time by others.
"A II. White, the state manager.
though 'bewhiskered' with a beard
which has grown gray in the service
of public morals, is far from being
desirous of giving the city a black eye,
but does declare that to hide and pro.
tect and disclaim the existence of vice
is not the method to accomplish its
abatement, but with President Charles
w. Elliott. who says The policy of
silence has failed disastrously," be-
lieves that when officials are remiss
in duty and protecting vice, even by
not prosecuting, 1t is duty to give the
public the truth, and then, If they so
require, to aid in securing enforce
ment. He declares that the worst
enemy of the flag is the official who
takes a solemn oath to defend the
Constitution, enforce the laws. then by
indifference permits great vice pre-
serve to exist. and he affirms that
aiding the expert who was brought
here to take charge of the survey have
been different men of highest standing
and of irreproachable character who
live in the city and its environs and
who are ready to verify every state
ment that has issued. He states:
There are winerooms in which during
the last month has been found not
conditions as bad as in Pittsburgh or
Chicago" for Chicago has closed her
saloons to women, as all cities taking
an advanced stand in morals have
done. but as they were there and in
other cities before their moral awak-
enings. That in these drinking rooms
attached to licensed bars were found
nightly. in all stages of drunkenness,
both. men and women, the women
there soliciting men, and going in
quite steady train therefrom to assig-
nation houses. soon to go back to wine
rooms for more victims. That assig-
nation houses have until this week ex-
listed in different parts of the city,
largely supported by the business ema-
mating from the drinking rooms at
tached to saloons. That many houses
of ill-repute have existed where the
women sit all day and far into the
night. one next to a school, and So
licit. even when police officers are in
sight: not only have our men been
so approached. but an 1S-year-old
boy who passes of necessity through
this vice preserve to his daily work
has. he states to us, been invited in by
immoral woman practically every day
for weeks. Beer has been purchased
an paid for in immoral houses within
a short time. bought from the madam
by reputable men. some of them citi-
zens of Harrisburg.
MIR. White did not state that Mr..
Wizard had closed a house on North
Third street by pulling out a copy of