Show I 1 THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE suppression OF VICE OUR ohp correspondent I 1 Ink bottle 1 I 1 whose communication appear appears 3 in another column is a little severe on the city council for its policy in regard to the S social ac lal lai evil we are appos opposed A to the system which gires gives ives color to the idea that the vile dens deny which civilization has inti anti deuced here are virtually licensed tocarra on their filthy business the periodical raids made upon those haunts of aice are not considered by the public as earnest efforts to suppress prostitution and it t does look very partial and unjust to fine or imprison the unfortunate victims of mans manta lasel and let the chief criminals who are partners in the sin go free and un unpunished pu n dished the intent of the law against this evil is S pia pla plain ari however it mayg may be interpreted b by y federal courts itis not only to punish sh the keepers of bad houses and the inmates thereof but those who resort to them for lewdness or prostitution that is undoubtedly the mald mais as well as the female prostitutes the ordinance harmonizes with the territorial statute on that point but there is some excuse for the present council in that they have only been following the course of their predecessors for some time we do not think there has been any intention directly or indirectly to license the evil andlee and aud see sec ing that they have commenced a different policy they should have credit fer far what they have attempted to do particularly if they do not allow themselves to be driven from their purpose by one defeat it enst be remembered too that as a nate rale the city has been obstructed by the federal courts in its endeavors to control the liquor traffic and keep down the social evil under the vl vior vigorous or administration to which ilk ink bottle alludes the suppression of houses of ill lil f fame ame under an ordinance abating them as a nuisance was made an expensive matter for tor the city protection was given by the federal court to the women whose houses bouses were raided by the police and heavy damages were assessed against the when the hig higher her courts donot do not harmo harmonize alze aize with the lower but the efforts tot sot the lower to suppress vice are counteracted in the higher by technical rulings which might just lust as ag reasonably and legally be construed in favor of the city as against it what are the police to do and and what can a city council accomplish however a mbye movement ment has been made in the proper direction and it is to bo be hoped that irwill it will be continued the combination among the male brosti tates with official help to defeat the cites efforts ought not to prevail and cannot with due diligence and consistent perseverance on the part of th the city authorities we say with 91 go ahead purge the city from the immoralities that have been bien fostered by those who should be ashamed of kneir doings and while striving honestly to suppress prostitution make it at atlease least as disgraceful and expensive for the degraded and degrading men who practice ind and support it as for tor the unfortunate vic thus tims of mans man s lust and deception who w ato have been relegated by the stern rule rules of hypocritical at society to a life of in failly bailly and a death deatti of |