The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-08-06

lCOntlnueQ rom rage Ope,
trouble. The men and boys, married
and single, who patronize such places
are the ones to run out of town. They
are the ones that make a demand
for such an institution. They are the
ones that threaten society and desc
crate homes. Not a woman would
be tonight in a house of ill-fame but
for your boys and some one else's
boys and husbands going there. A
woman by herself cannot be bad. 1t
takes a man that takes advantage of
her to make her that. There never
was a woman that became a harlot
but that was first ruined by some
beast of boy or man. And she was
always somebody's daughter. Don't
fool around running out the bad wo-
men. Run out the men that make
them bad. Hit at the source of the
stream and not at the mouth. Stop
up the fountains of poison and filth
and not wreak your venom on the
derelicts that strew the river of life
Publicity and Vice.
At a recent meeting of some boiled
shirt reformerS there were some men
that spoke very f1uently on the need
of using widespread publicity in
fighting the vice of the city. These
same men that waXed so eloquently
in the interests of publicity were the
same hypocrites that tried to run me
out of town last fall for preaching
publicly on the question of immoral
ity. That was because | was bucking
the line, but now they are jumping
| on the band wagon and blowing thet-
little tin horns and beating their lit
tie dish pans. 1t is all because the
crowd is going that way. Some peo-
pie are always with the crowd. When
reform is unpopular they are as sill
ent as pie crust. But when it is in
fashion they are as noisy as a brass
band. They are dead fish floating
with the tide. And those fellows will
never be able to clean up ony place.
/ am a dyed in the wool, genuine, re
| former from my head to my heels.
l believe in the absolute elimination
of vice, for the millennium then will
come about. But l despise the man
! that is for clean up only when the
| crowd is with him or some fellow
high in authority commands it. Then
\ as soon as the little soap Suds is stir
red up, he begins to shout at the top
of his voice and food the newspapers
with letters on reform, never waiting
to see if there is any real washing
done under the beating of the suds
The goody- goody old hypocdite is
what is holding back reform that is
real I would like to see published to-
morrow in the papers of this city ar
! ha, TO- g H. e !, -
property of this city used for immoral
| purposes, together with the list Of
men that have freQuented them dur
ing the last twelve months in this city
Believe me when | say il would read
almost like a city directory, But nc
paper in town would dare publish it
because they have the poor old press
sewed up in a bag called the Islander
| law and choke them every time they
have some real news to print Their
these reformers go around and how
about the press, because the suits anC
judgments in the cases are always
nailed to the newspapers and not tC
the boiled shirt refOrmers. 1t is al
right TO yell to somebody else to gt
in and get a licking, but they dom
go in and get one themselves. Why
; don't they reach down in their peck
cts and buy advertising space an
sign their names in full and so stanc
responsible for it. No they want tn,
press to call the men names, ant
then they want the press to pay tn,
cost. These publicity howlers on tn,
reform band wagon make me sick. u
in Georgia they call bandswagon fol
! levers, coat-tail swingers. Believ,
me that must be some large Goa