Show I I T Temperance W. W oman I Stockade Licenses land and For Sisters Fallen Follen O Opposes Pitt's Pitts 1 t S hI r an I Condemned I O Ogden Jan 21 I. I 1 05 Editor Republican I 1 I read this morning with much surprise and with more disgust th tho proposition of or Chief of ot Police Pollee Pitt that Salt Lake City should go Into th the Infamous business Of ot maintaining an nn Immense house of or Ill Why should Mr Ir Pitt advocate a n house of detention or correction for a girl of ot 16 and not advocate one for tor a 11 woman n of 21 n Tho The male maleng ng is put to work for Cor tho the ell city or else driven out of ot tonIs town ton Is Js there any reason that Is tenable why a n. woman vagabond should not be treated In the tho same manner Why not havo for her hor a a. house of ot detention de tie- whore where she should bo be made made- to take her choice of ot tho the honest occupations of ot sewing knitting w washing quilting doing other necessary work for the city or else leave tho tile city altogether alto alto- gether gother Tho The fact that an honest effort Is made to eliminate gambling gambling- stealing and other forms of or crime while nothing noth nOth- ing trig Is done don about prostitution and a suggestion Is oven mado made that tho the city go 0 Into the business and share the proceeds proceeds pro pro- coeds looks very much as If It the men of ot Salt Snit Lake have no desire to see seo thU this particular vice prohibited If It ther there Is any rea reason on why the municipality municipality mu nun- should open a n house of or Ill Ill- fame and not go 0 Into tho the saloon business bust busi bustness n ness and gambling business on the themo same mo gigantic scale the reason i Is certainly not a self soil evident one t I am proud to point out this fact That the tue above Infamous suggestion camo came from a a. man and not from a wo wo- man A municipality run by a n woman mayor and a woman chief of or police would bo be Incapable of ot any such suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- and I venture to say aay that the tho whole matter would bo be settled In short 17 I order In a mariner manner hl highly hl satisfactory to the moral element of oC the town For th the tho elt city to receive one C cent from this degrading business 89 either In the shape of or rc regular Ular monthly fines s or of li If licenses m makes It It partner r and THE TIIE WAGES AGES OF MUNICIPAL SI SIN IS DEA DEATH TH Just as sure surely as the wages of at Individual sin Is death It Is true that the presence of or th the saloon attracts these other evils evil nail anil so long bong as we tolerate the tho saloon we will always s 's have havo them to combat But wo c can n at least minimize these evils b by prohibiting them m rather than b by welcoming and planning for their continuance continuance con con- and taking tatting a a. part of the vile financial proceeds God will nevor never prosper 1 a town own 0 or a ft nation that capitalizes s a the appetites the passIons passion and th the sins of or Its people to mako make money out of them but sooner 1 or later we will totter to tho the same sarno de destruction destruction destruction de- de that Greece and Rome nome and nd other nations suffered which have ha done Just what Chief Chiet Pitt sugs suggests s 9 sLet Let us rid ourselves s not only of this vile and unnecessary evil but of or the saloons wh which Ich foster r and crea create t tits Its patrons It Is the only sane eane and safe con course rae I am not blaming Chief Pitt and md I Ithe the tho few 1 I trust that they Ar are few Cew who may share sharp in his beliefs bellers These people are the products of or a A. false and nd artificial environment which has hns been cn fostered down through the years by bY corrupt men In power who because e of ot their own evil 11 purposes have ha found It convenient to t teach ach the tho idea that certain evils evUs are necessary These evils neV never 1 have havo been necessary necessary sary an antl l somo day p. er every municipality will wm admit t tho the fact and prohibit them Those hose who prohibit them will prosper financially physically mentally and antI y I A AN OGDEN WOMAN READER I |