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Show uu THE REFORMS THAT DO NOT REFORM. Driving out the undesirables and inflicting the miserable creatures on some other community is condemned b Editor Goodwin of the Salt Lake Telegram, who, commenting on the fact that the authorities of Detroi' reported they had closed 167 houses of ill fame and turned out 500 to 6u0 women inmates, subject to arrest if they remain In that city, says. "It ie 1900 years 6ince Jesu3 Christ had to deal with just such a crowd as are the authorities of Detroit He did not send the women to Jaffa or Capernaum or Damascus, for He knev that the people of those cities had their own burdens to bear and that it would he brutal and cowardly and utterly seltlsh to add to those Inn dens Thtre should be a law In every state making It a criminal offense, of-fense, punishable by fin and imprls onment, for B city or town authorities to drive a ay any person accused of crime When the world becomes Christianized there will bo places sup plied with honorable work and a little lit-tle pay wherein accused persons maj find a refuge and employment until J they can honorably leave on their own account. To abusively punish such persons is lo enforce upon them a vicarious punishment for the slna of othei8, for these creatures would never nev-er have been In Detroit except that la large contingent of the men of De I trolt had wanted them there, "Finally when will fanatics, in and out of authority, learn that there are vices which 300u years of trial has failed to cure by statute or ordiuance, land that the wisdom of the older na lions of the earth has determined can only be regulated, not killed ' We doubt that any community evet was made better by these crusades The evil Is masked and forced to em ploy more subtle methods, but It remains, re-mains, though In a more insidious form That is the history of all these spasms of cleanlngup No one lll contend that the traffic traf-fic should be unrestricted. The closes: students of the vice maintain that the best results are obtained where there Is segregation and regulation The purifying of our communities should proceed as the doctors do to iay to cure consumption. First, the medical men are laboring lo prevent the white plague. When the disease appears, they can make headway, If the patient Is brought to them in the earlier stages, but they shake their heads discouraglngly when the arflic tion has taken deep hold, and then I they advocate Isolation So the way to rid the cities of the moral plague is to labor in the direction of a prevent ive When the chronic stage i reached, the ailment Is Incurable, and neither harassing nor hounding Willi work a cure. This paper always has Insisted that i the driing out of undesirables is an unjustifiable act Involving the shirk Intt of a duty and the inflicting o B brutal system that Is without mercy. The United States should play ar important part in preventing this shifting of responsibility from one community to another and from Btatfl to state We have advoeatod gov ernment work farms where the drifting drift-ing element could be cared for not as criminals but as unfortunates in need of a refuge and a helping hand oo |