Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-16
AN UNSOLvABLE PROBLEM

San Francisco has had vice crusade its hands for
a month more A short time ago one result OF this
movement was the visit of a hundred Of
the redght districts those in charge of the crusade
One of these, woman conducting house, told some
plain truths to the committee. She asked an unanswer-
able question: in "Where will the girls go and what will
they do? The committee did not know it does not know
for the relief of the This is temporary make
shift the best and the report shows but few OF them
made any requests for aid when on the orders OF DIS
trc Attorney Fckert the police Swooped down the
district and gave the denzens hours get out They
got out of course they had to- but they did not leave the
earth Consequently they are plying their trade some
where perhaps not openly, but plying 1t just the
same What else they do? 1t is simply foolish to say
they can take up some other occupation. Who will en-
pIoy them? What they work at? Most OF them have
no trade or calling to which they turn They can per
haps get work as mattresses until their past learned
and then they viii be fired because women will insist on
this being done. And when working as mattresses will
they suddenly turn viruous and cease their calling, or
will they carry it privately using their positions as
means Of soliciting trade? There undoubtedly some
Of them who would change their mode of life if they
could but the great majority feel they have burned their
bridges behind hem and that there is return Virtue
once lost is gone forever \ ou can't un-rng pen
These girls know this They know that those who
are apparently trying honestly to help them would not
think Of assocating with them allowing their children
especially their children approaching maturity to do So
It is like the tramp question Cities order them to move
ordered out of other place. No matter how much
they are kept the theres no dmnuton IN their
number The women are one of the redght district in
San Francisco and they in some other district In
stead of the pmpes the citys skin being confined to
one spot they are scattered all over its body.
We are not indorsng the district segregation OF vice.
but simply calling attention to the fact that SO far
civilization has found no of curing it. The remedy
lies in prevention and there will be prevention until
women who now hold aside their skirts they pass their
fallen sisters treat the vice in the male just they 90
in the female Woman has the remedy in her hands, and
she alone can apply it. When she ostraczes the boy who
has todden the primrose path just as she does the girl
then and not until then will any effort to suppress this
sort of vice be successful The boy sows crop OF wild
OATS and the girl no guilty, not in fact nearly 50
much So reaps harvest of sorrow and shame and de-
graduation When the boy goes into the harvest field to
help reap what he has sown there will be stamping out
Of the redlight districts and large part OF such vice
Until then the refomers viii accomplish about as much
as the wild ass mentioned in Jeremiah that snufed up
the Wind for as that same goes to say In her
occasion who can turn her away? All that seek her Will
not weary themselves for they shall find her"
The house. Wednesday, passed bill which # it be-
comes law will require the assessors Of the state to put
the forfeited Oregon California land grant lands on the
assessment rolls Now il the wise legislators can pass
bill that will compel good old Uncle Samuel to pay
such taxes as are assessed against these lands they will
have done something no yet has-been able to do.
There may be some consolation in the prospect that
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