The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-17


 the highest and most vlrtuous sy- stem of morality but 1t is not quite clear that it is as logical as it IS moral. If it is against the law for one, it is surely against the law for all and vice versa. It would just be as ridiculous to endeavor to restrict | theft to one thousand dollars and 1 make one thousand and one ana ] over illegal. It might be carried on under police regulations, but it has not the sanction of reason or com mon sense.
 Society through its police power insists that prostitution is a neces- sary evil. As matter of fact there is no such thing as an evil that Is necessary, but it can readily be ad- mitted that as long as the capital ist system denies men and women a family life, so long will the evil flourish.
 It is a fact that the system which now prevails insists upon an segre- gation of single men in camps ana single women in factories. The fa- mily system is broken up and to de- velop the country great hordes ot single and unencumbered floating po- pulations following the various ac- tivities are compelled to live with out wives. In the absence of such, the police declare that the restrict ed district is a social necessity.
 What, as a general rule, the po- lice power is interested in is it's pre- longing their little bit of graft. EX- cessives fines, rents, taxes, regula- tions and rules that cost the resi- dents of redlight districts money are quite beloved of the police power and naturally in the obtaining or their monthly rake off, they find no trouble in asserting that the evil Is necessary. Whatever will be done in Nome about the women, certain ly there can be no hesitation in say ing what should be done with those miserable specimens of humanity that hatten off them and these many macuues' and pimps should be ship ped outside on blue ticket anG make themselves as scarce as poss- ible hereabouts.
 It is the macque that is the in- sp;rer of actual crime in these dis tricts. He boost the illegal sale of liauor; he inspires the thefts and the robberies and the slugging5 and the tlghtings that proceed therein. Dressed in good clothes he appears on the streets with his jewellery flashing and conveys the idea that to make living as he does is smart and clever. His very existence Is a menace to any community. Hia is the rotten example that corrupts the entire youth and his alliances are wholly evil from start to finish
 This is not any moral tirade. But because at the end of the lane ii this miserable existence of disease and viciousness there is no reason why it should be anything else but plain common sense that the macque must go. The women car take care of themselves. UusuauJ they are more sinned against thar shining. Usually, unless the piml is present, there is no disorder ant littlc encouragement to cxtraneou' viciousness. The police are seldom called to restore order. The ten dency to blow the workers in is no : so manifested, but with a drunker , bully for a Hover, the tendency tt rob and vile away the earnings O those who frequent the district il manifest. It has certainly been ma nifest enough in this town. And I would appear that the real need fo regulations is not so much further to devise ways and means of re pressing a number of women alrea dy repressed quite enough, but t' clear the real criminals and tn really vicious ones out of the coun try bag and baggage.