Show roo Gou I IES ES OregonIan onlan When hen a n woman of tIme tho lemi deml monde mande attempts to 0 pi ply her trade trado upon th the streets sIte she In Is haled to a 1 dun dun- goon With men of ar the sumac same moral status statu the case Is different They gath gather Anther r upon tho street corners s on and particularly InrI about the time open tobacco shops and md stand there hour hour unmolested mill making It unpleasant If Ie not perilous for a n decent woman oman to pass b by V Who ho hohas has not seen the color come to a n woman's womans worn wom ans an's face as she sh shron ran ron the time gauntlet between be between be- be tween two tsa rows rO of these leering degen- degen en crates The They range through all n ngn O 4 from the callow callos' youth sucking tit nt his 1 cigarette or reeling rUn from fromn hh first debauch to th th the hardened reprobate who has lost Jost nil all traces of man manly character and differs from the time beast only In lit outward outward out out- ward vard and scarcely in that In Portland It 11 seems tf creatures are arc beyond lh tin Lime reach of or tin the law lw as It stands Judge Stone tins hns succeeded in iii inso 1 so 0 arranging matters in Houston that the time streets are arc open to decent women but our lawmakers have not yet solved the problem Nor Nom Is It till tho only one orJI which seems to bathe their theil Ic legislative Perhaps the time principal defect In American government g from rom the top to tho the bottom la 19 Its Us complex It Tho Time ls within wheels dissipate responsibility and thwart executive effort Honesty Is discouraged by hy the sinuous intricacies of ot our 10 governmental e men tal machinery machinery ma mo- chinery and graft thrives upon It City City- govern men t Is Ig no worse a muddle than titan that of counties under our labyrinthine division of authority In lit our dread of one man power we se havo r succeeded in paralyzing executive action almost amot en ent en- en t roly I Under the Texan system of governing govern govern- ing lug cities by commission without politics politics poli poll tics how Jon long Jong would the slot machines ma mn- chutes chines run rum openly on the streets of or Portland These devices device e of or Satan aro arc like plies piles of or offal oreal In the time highway which collect worms and bugs and noxious creatures of or all sorts to Sty say nothing or of fools Who has not riot watched so some mi- mi Imbecile stand stan and feed fend Into one of or these thes machines the time money mone which his ram family II nee needed c.- c. for bread In In n a steady stream ho ha drops through h the slot his childrens children's school books his wife's In leg Ing and the family's Sun Sunday a dinner Who ho can assign a single good reason for permitting these machines to coa- coa Who ho does not know the thi- mh misery ry which they cause the tho evil habits welch they originate and encourage Who ho Is unaware that they form a nucleus for tho the gathering of or the goo goo-goo eye fiend and the tIme masher An And yet for nil all that who ho expects to see them abolished |