Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
DENVER THE GOAT AGAIN

rakng, via a cleanup of our thirst parlors and
kindred companions. The News and Times came
out Monday and Tuesday with big black headlines
and other type that caused the average citizen to
sit up Just about every often we must be in
flicted with spasm to furnish jsome of our off
cials and lime hght seekers opportunity to get
out in front. If these alleged cleanups did any
real good it wouldn't be SO bad. But nothing
of it in the long run, except to give this old town
OF ours slap in the eye and afford cities in the
state and elsewhere that bear love, op-
portunty to hold us up as awful example.
don't want to be understood as favoring the
agrant and open disregard of our license and SIM
liar laws. l believe cafes are not run right
and should be brought up, with round turn, but
there is to get the whole country in on the
game. As long liquor is manufactured and
licenses issued it will be sought for, sold and
drank. 1t be regulated and believe has been
in Denver as well as in any other city OF similar
size. What few times / have been down town
after dark OF late, had an idea from the looks of
the streets that most of citizens were at home
or in the movies. AS have said, it is more than
probable some OF the places under question have
been exceeding the speed limit, and if so they
should have been Jerked up, fined or put out OF
business. 1t should have been done without the
brass band and red ink accompaniment Doubt
less some innocent reporters were shocked at what
they discovered. but that would have to be told
to Sweeney on April /. ] have associated with
few OF the news gatherers in my day. The rcad-
ness with which they allege they found all the
wickedness leads to believe some one had gone
ahead and mapped out route, and not in the
ture OF an assignment from the city editor, either.
But be that it may, the stage was set for big
play and Denver is the fall guy.
Undoubtedly vice exists and every effort
should be made to keep it in the background
stamp it out. All precautions should be taken to
protect the young boys from falling into evil ways
and the young girls from taking the wrong path,
but why advertise the haunts so he who runs can
read and heed. To my mind, the only true and
sure way to stop the cohabtng of the sexes is to
perform surgical operations upon the male and
female of the human race at birth for a period
of ten or twenty Years. | know that sounds like
dribble from idiot, but it is about as sensible
some OF the sex reform talk that emanatcs from
few alleged higi-brow reformers
1t looks little to me as il the recent blow up
was another Of the cogs that stick out in poit-
ical machine And then another election Is in the
offing, and perhaps some frue-bue reform boy is
about to be sprung upon us. and the recent epi-
sodc is 10 be the first rocket that will light up his
political sky. There also sinacks throughout the
deectable mess the old fight between Herr Rush,
district attorney and Herr Nsbet sheriff and Herr
O'Neil, his chief OF police. l am told that Nisbet
4 had been gathering evidence as to what had been
going on and was just about prepared to get busy
when an enterprsing newspaper jumped in and
pulled the stuff, and this also gave the gentle
manly district attorney glorious chance to take
whack at his compatriots in the administration
OF our Justice And you can bet John A.
overlooks the chance to shine in the spot light
have often thought they spoiled great moving
picture artist when they made district attorney
out of Rush.
Another angle OF the affair that is being
squinted at is whether not this means an align
mcnt of the district attorneys office with Wclton
street and transfer OF allegiance from the abiding
place OF justice on Champa street, and the forma-
ton OF offensive and defensive allegiance as
against the political ideas of next year When
one figures that twice within few weeks first
page copy has been furnished the Weton street
people from the district attorneys office to the
exclusion of all other purveyors Of public opinion.
there seems il something might be doing Per-
haps the instances simply displays Of news
paper enterprise in getting the stories Certain it
is that the Champa street boys have not said much
about the cleanup to date, and they won't stand
for division OF affection from favortes.
The average citizen OF Denver will be glad to
lend every assistance to District Attorney Rush
and Commissioner Of Safety Nisbet and his men
TO enforce the laws and keep things running prop
erly. and they will back them up in what they do
And take it as whole. city is handled in
good shape is no worse as bad. as places of
similar size
1 While it is unfortunate that it was found nee
essay to play to the galleries in this instance let
whatever cleaning is necessary be DONE but put
the personal behind the door for the pres
ent.
Denver needs more boosters now we have the
knocker and detractor always with us in abundJ
ance. We don't want carnival NJ crime or vim