Arizona republican., 1921-01-26
Double Segregation

Double Segregation
 Editor of The Republican:
 Dear Sir:
 Yesterday mornings Republican con- tained quoted speech on the red light evil which, in my opinion and that of several of my friends, was an epic of snug masculinity.
 I refer to United States Marshal Dnlon's plea for "the protection of our sons and daughters" through segrega- ton of women in licensed houses of prostitution. Really. l had thought that these antiquated views of life went out, with side-burns and bustles, and that the only people who harbored such sentiments at the present time were inmates of the homes for feeble mind ed IL is possible that a judge Of the superior court is quoted correctly by Mir. Dillon, when he says he supports the views taken by R. C. Stanford in his address at a morality meeting?
 Today the tainted woman is unre- stricted," moans MT. Dillon. Well. what if she is? Is she any worse than the tainted man? I haven't heard any man whisper anything about restrain ing him. And who is 1t keeps the women plying her trade? Women? Not on your lifei It's usually the man who shouts loudest about vice segre- gation. who is most busily engaged in pandering to these women. The aver age decent, home-loving man doesn't know much more about that class than the average decent home loving woman. l am a woman. myself, and have no respect for those of my sex who de grade themselves so. No woman has. But cannot fined words to tell you Of she contempt I have for the man who demeens himself by buying such 3 women. The buyer is infinitely lower, in my estimation, than the seller. Yet hear further what MT. Dillon has 1 to say on the subject
 There is no mark upon her that stamps her as a woman of her type" ! he complains. Again point my finger at the righteous gentleman and ask, 1 what of the man? Why should the woman be marked and the man not2 l Why make her an outcast and a pariah while the man goes his blithesome way, untrammeled by the law? It takes two to make a sin in this instance, doesn't 1t? Why should it be only the woman who pays?
 "She may even be our neighbor" agonized Mr Dillon, and when I read this I sat up with a start. Could it be l possible that there is a grain of fear in MT. Dillons agitation. I remember that one who was of too pure eyes to l out sin among you cast the first stone" and I wonder how pure these men are, who rant about segregating their sis ters. Besides-what if she is our neigh bor? What of it2 As long as NC have to have the same sort of man for our ] neighbors and associates I say, let US have the women also. They can't do us any more harm than the men do 1f the men can consort with these women.
  ciety, the same women are entitled 10 their place in the cornmunity-as hon. ored and respected as the man. Let other women minGle with them and know them-know how they came to be , in that life, and why they can't get out ! all about them. Perhaps then we can find some remedy for the evil. l MT. Dillon speaks of the control of disease which could be brought about l by having segregated district. Now, even people who are not on the inside } as MT. Dillon is. know that there are physicians in every town who will sell ! certificate of health for almost a , song. These same people know that the honorable policeman on the beat. , swon to do his duty to the community will not oily take but demand money 3 from these women for the privilege of ! plying their trade in his district; that
 
 do away with the vice in other parts
 of a city. Always there is a class of y women who will not permit themselves to be herded like cattle, and 6 class Of } men who will not, and these make up a colony of their own-often in the most fashionable part of the city. The ] wards of the big city hospitals are filled with women who are rotten with
 diease who have not given up their calling as prostitutes until complete breakdown was at harfd, yet these ! same women had been allowed to con tfnue their residence in licensed houses. 2 And I might also add that the wards
 are as well filled with men who are Z also rotten with disease, who will go forth into the world as soon as they can totter, and be allowed to spread , that disease wherever fancy leads. : If then, we must have a segregated D district. let's have one for both the s male and female prostitutes. Side by ,. side with the women We will pen the | men who visit them, mark them. as ? brother Dillon has suggested, in some e way which will proclaim their calling = to all who see them. In this way in n nocent girls, fresh from school and full q of dreams of the One Man. may not }, have their lives ruined by some vile T beast who has tasted of the dregs oi . life, and yet masquerades as a man : Sons and daughters may be able to tel ' at q glance exactly what father has ,. been up to, and the wife may be the . wife and mother. without fear of the '. husbands tranSgressfons being visited II on Her. By all means, let us have a '1 segregated district
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