| Show CLASS distinctions UNDER the head of jersey justice the omaha herald gets off the following pithy article in which it twits ad on facts far from creditable to those to whom they relate an odd report comes from newark concerning the wholesale debaucheries debau cheries there it is to the effect that though a num number berof of arrests have been made matter win will oe be to 10 urup because the disgrace if uncovered must involve families of respectability A pretty plea this the goddess who carries the scales kales had bad better step across the jersey line and be spared her blushes if it has come to a point where the poor and lowly jowly are subject to arrest for actions that must not be revealed it if perpetrated in the circle of purple and line linen jersey has won in an undeserved repute for uncompromising j justice As to the particular crimes at issue it is needless to sw so into detail ind i would require the presence of a deodorizer suffice it to say they were thy and the men concerned are in JI jail and unable to procure bail newark held up her hands in horror at the revelations a aalthe the police began locking up baci factory iris wita a great show of outraged purity when however 1 investigation led to the doors of prominent citizens ci the law lost its As spinal rigidity in a hurry if working girls were guilty much more guilty are those whose surroundings are of luxury whose training has been in a moral atmosphere and who went astray at the of shallow and essentially bad natures temptations of money should have had bad no weight with them was the shelter of parental guardianship for them they need not have bave exposed thein themselves selves to the wiles of such wretches as they did but having done so and having fallen the mantle of riches should il boc ot be so broad for them at as the mantle of charity for their equally weak but more unfortunate sisters it is a sad business at best the unveiling of such an unnatural state of depravity the diss discovery overy ol 01 such shrewd and lewd villains gives a shock the discovery has been made the remedy must muse be heroic aud and it cannot in reason or fairness rest more heavily upon he poor than the te rich in this territory the in the sexual vice business bu stands upon a broader basu than the mere pus possession session of wealth or alleged respectability events still fresh in the ocal local public mind have proved that thai active antipathy to the mormons cormons Mor mons is a means of insuring immunity from the lesal legal consequence of crimes against common morality one man charged with an of fence of that batule actually set up the plea in the courts that those who brought the accusation against him were mormons cormons Mor mons of coarse as is notoriously known he got off scot free |
