The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-01

three are Poteet. M'Allister and Wesley. Yet it was a nerveless oppo- sition that compares very little bet ter with that of those who voted in the affirmative. M'Allister knew that the ordinance was coming up for consideration at he special meet ing; the mayor so stated at the meeting itself. Yet he refused to attend and fight the ordinance. DI. Wesley passed But why pass? If in favor of an ordinance certainly he ought to have said yes, and ii against it, no, in the same measure.
 One will prefer the man who will say yes unashamed than the pass that hesitates to say yes or no. Po- teet did better, but not well enough. If the introduction of the ordinance was wrong, certainly also was its passage, and it is better to be mi- nority of one i;i the right that majority of hundred in the wrong.
 It is about high time there was some kind of a house cleaning iE that restricted district in any event, and the Grand Jury that is coming might do worse than to investigate the personalities who are habituees of that place. We say there are some young men in this town whose
 example to the growing youths of l this community has been menace 1 that may not be lightly considered. They have the reputation of being good spenders; they are welcome persons ill many of the public re-
 sorts of Nome. They have money | for the birds that the workers have
 not, and they are apparently immune
 whether as gamblers or anything
 else. They are walking models pro.
 yided as for the other young men tc
 adopt and to follow, and whose ex
 ample will most certainly be follow
 ed if the city allows them to con
 tinue unmolested.
 Time and time again reports are
 heard of conditions in the restricted
 district which excite wonder thai
 these things should be tolerated
 but apparently those who habitually
 frequent and consort with the resi-
 dents therein are to be favored
 above any other class in this com
 munity, and to be objects of attrac
 tion for their dexterity in man!
 other avenues than that by whicl
 they attain their notoriety or theil
 livelihood.
 1t is when therefore any such incl dents crop up as that under whicl the prisoner who excited the sym
 pathy, the commiseration and tn mercy of our council, the public l
 certainly justified in demanding tn , reason for such course.
 This paper disclaims any intention
 of desiring to start moral crusad of any knd. But we insist upol , fairness and some semblance o : decent treatment We know wei enough that real morality lie within the heart and is not to b , attained by outward comformatio
 to the law or to the ordinances. w , know too that often enough tn i iperson whose sins apparently are a [ scarlet is winter than the painte , sepulchre whose real and inwar , personality is rotten to the core $ That is true, and it is the real req P son why moral crusades are th e dismal failures that they are. Bu S it is certain that there is no reg n son for placing the restricted di! ,. trict upon an elevated pedesta 9 and compelling public officials an Q the community to fall down an | adore such an institution, or wh
 those who are habitual frequenteI : thereof, or are found guilty ( v disorders within it's confines, shoul : be the objects of the solicitude ( e the the council, or be allowed : offer themselves as a fortunate e, - ample of official immunity, that tn I other young men of this communit e may go, and doing likelwise. pro' y per exceedingly or gain highe n esteem.
 : We don't want any protectio k thrown around that class at all ths }, is so conspicuous by it's absenc : when the workers are themselve
 concerned. and we know of no grea n CT infamy vixen such scandalou