The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-29
MORAL WAVES.

There is no good reason why if any one man or any one official feels like it Nome should not enjoy the privilege of reform wave. These things have swept over many more pretentious cities and the mere fact that they dissipate their energy in a series of well advertised vibra- tions that came to nought is imma. terial.
 So we all take a great interest in the movement 70 close the restric.- cd district which the District Attor- ney has so lately begun. It might have been done sooner, but obvious ly with some men and with some officials there is no account ing for notions and some may think better late than never. The desirability of enforcing the statute against prostitution and the like may only be questioned if it's feasibility is in doubt, and seri- ously if Nome is to maintain it's vir- tue by sloughing off it's vice upon some other city or district, the country at large is very little inn proved.
 Moreover every one knows that prostitution cannot be conducted alone. It involves at least a male Gnd female and why attention should be directed to the residents of the restricted district and not at all to the patrons is due without doubt to the dual system of moral ity that prevails.
 In the humble estimation of this paper, morally there is not peas difference between the man who enters the restricted district and the woman who caters therein to his wants. And a reform can be brought about just as effectively by prohibiting men from entering re- stricted district and if they insisted upon so doing arrcsting them, in- stead of harrassing the women from place to place, subjecting them to all kinds of coercion and visiting upon them the entire severity of the law as if they were the only guilty ones, when they are far more sin ned against than shining.
 A long residence in Nome has fa miliarized us with the fact that members of the very elite of Nome's four hundred, patrons of the Churches, respectable and well to do citizens of the community have been steadfast patrons of the re- stricted district It did not seem to disturb their friends or their friends friends and between them selves and even now they admit or affect to believe that the restricted district is social necessity.
 As we see it, the vice exists not because of the depravity of the women, but because of certain in- stincts in the men to which women who otherwise cannot make living have to cater to exist. It is cer- tainly matter of absurdity that when this question is considered t is solely considered as if the wo- men were the only persons involved in the violation of the statute, or involved in the breach of conven- tional morals which the restricted district represents. Now that vice exiots outside such districts. And it's most vicious form io seen in the degradation of many native girls which we see on the streets from time to time, but that is only an incident.
 Any way, first dispose of the fact that the males who patronize the restricted district are just as much guilty as the women therein and then inquire why it is no coer- cive measures are taken to affect such patrons. That is question which was settled long ago by the suggestion that he who was without stain should hurl the first stone against the woman, and on that hi- storic occasion there were no stone throwers.
 Prostitution is an evil-an unmi- tigated evil. But it's the product ol the system. It's one of the ulcers which society, fattening upon capl- talism is not proud of, and which 1t