| Show the saddest feature of modem civilization social E evil vil vii license in st louis proved a failure bad as the law was the city under the present condition of its repeal is infinitely worse the social evil system provided for a complete registration with personal descriptions of all the abandoned women in the city it sub subjected ejected the inmates af pf v each house to a medical examination once a week for which a tax of one dollar and a half was levied upon each inmate and ten dollars a month additional upon each landlady the merit in the roll of registration gi was its completeness the efforts of the police department werm were devoted to it men were detailed to tempt shop giris girls and seam stresses the appointment made with one or 0 these victim was g given i v e n the choice of registration a and n a life of ouen oden shame or having her reputation blasted before a police court by the betrayer of course thia this shut off omm to a considerable sid erable extent clandestine im in morality and dimir diminished ler of assignation houses it must haye have been apen and notorious prostitution tit ution or chastity the ghe assurance of good hospital treatment of the sick reconciled licensed women to the law their traffic was lucrative landladies reveled in wealth while the law lasted last winter t ar hammond the ed the people into a religious frenzy with the zeal of fanatics j they warred on the law demanding its repeal the legislature yielded and every limitation was removed tho the vie vice before restricted to certain lo 10 cali call ca llUis ties tugs left it its ita 9 bounds within a week and today to day there thero aie aio tion houses in in every part of the thu city the registration roll c contained on rhe the he names of seven hundred women now thanks to the ass hammond them there are between 1700 and 1800 public prostitutes in this city this does not include an army of women who before were verel deterred from fear of detection but now visit assignation houses very noticeable is the difference in the number of these homes houses from twenty they have increased to tb three ree roe hundred the base keeper of one of the most select of the these se resorts placed in the hands of an off omm leial official a roll containing the names of sev enty three ladies ladie who visited her lao iao house to meet gentlemen friends almost without exception these women move in good society and belong to the best families the extent to which licentiousness ran riot in id the parks last summer wag was never before the news newa papers an the police in vain made extra efforts to maintain the respectability ability of these resorts the epidemic of profligacy shows itself everywhere the number of or divorce cases is unprecedented with a single exe exception eption thet thel murder cases pending in the criminal C court 0 o urt may be traced tah tab domestic I 1 infidelity when whim the thid church people p le carried their point they substituted nothing practical A sickly so called guardian home was I 1 instituted for the reform of err erring ing women ten thousand dollars was pledged for its support port A notorious leader of but EuE t the e demimonde demi monde mme ame stillman with most of her girls was among its ita inmates this millennium lasted six weeks stillman took her flock to church one sunday on tho the way home the girls giris met somo some nice young men and went back to their evil ways Rt illman left in disgust of the pledged not ilsoo was collected today to day ther thor Guard guardian home exists only in name in point of licentiousness st louis louls is the plague spot in the american republic Be public lesliea Le illustrated newspaper |
