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Show The ill-timed and senseless clamor that has again been started over the opening of the red light stockade on the west side is serving the purpose of rehashing to a tired public the details of a situation which, if left alone, would very quickly adapt itself? to prevalent conditions. The yelp of the "Mouth" is, of course, nothing but campaign stuff, and the sheriff has been instructed in-structed to discipline Job Lyon, by piling up red light arrests on him, for his action in suing the county commissioners for their Christmas gift of five thousand odd dollars to the Smoot organ. While the establishment of the stockade cannot bo defended for a moment from a strictly moral standpoint, yet the fact remains that a thoroughly disgraceful and disgusting condition in effect for years on Commercial street, in the heart of the business district of the city, has been done away with and the Citizens Investment company, in building the new district has furnished clean, san- ! itary houses and streets and special police service, ser-vice, to say nothing of having screened the entrance en-trance to the stockade from the street so effectually that the ordinary passer-by would not recognize the district. As long as it was deemed necessary to establish the place somewhere some-where in the city, or contend with places being established in the residence districts it is doubtful if a bettor place than that selected on the west side could be found. As soon as the sheriff and the "Mouth" wind up their grand stand play conditions will undoubtedly adjust themselves satisfactorily to all immediately concerned. |