The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 16, 1909, Page 4

Momber of the United Pres Mabed datiy by ing Oo, eo Star 0 "Mr. Bouillon Endorsed The next mayor of Seattle ought to have the con- science of a Puritan, and the spirit of a cavalier; he ought to be able to think straight and right, and he ought to be able to do right in a decisive way.—Post- Intelligencer. | In the extract quoted above we have as accurate a d n of Mr, A, V. Bouillon as it is possible to put into the Eng As there is no other man yet in the race for the Republi can nomination for mayor who in any particular could be thus | described, if the Post-Intelligencer is sincere it must support Mr. Bo “The conscience of a Puritan,” Seattle's mayor must have How about Hiram C. Gill, or Mr. Griffiths, whose supporters Do you find itlon, It is on record are willing to wade through beer to win the race? in either place indications of such a conscience? That Mr. Bouillon has a conscience, and a very lively one, was made manifest many times while that gentleman served as superintendent of public utilities, His conscience kept him busy telling the public what its servants were doing and refused to permit him to hide from the public gaze that which should have been brought to light. In the conscience line Mr. Bouillon is very well supplied. The people need have no fear of him on that score. Then we find that the next mayor of Seattle must have] “the spirit of a cavalier.” Assuming that the writer accepts the dictionary definition, “brave, warlike,” farther assumption that Mr. Bouillon is again described. If however, we accept the definition, “a bold, reckless and gay fellow,” we must admit that in this one particular the writer may have had another candidate in mind But it must be that this “spirit of a cavalier” that Seattle's next mayor must have is the spirit of the warrior with a good cause, a spirit that knows no comp nise with the enemy That's the sort of a spirit that made {\. V. Bouillon the best we have a right to the public official the city of Seattle has ever had and that will make him a true servant of the people should he be chosen, “He must be able to think straight and right, and he ought to be able to do right in a decisive way.” Cut the cloth from this measurement for Mr. Bouillon and you'll find not a wrinkle anywhere. Bouillon thinks “straight and right” because he is absolutely honest and of high intelli- gence. That he does “right in a decisive way” was most em- phatically proven by the incidents leading up to his dismissal from office by Mayor Miller. Everything considered, we believe we are right in assuming that the Post-Intelligencer believes Mr. Bouillon to be made of the material of which Seattle's next mayor should be made. The Star welcomes the Post-Intelligencer into the Bouillon camp and trusts that it will continue to advocate Mr. Bouillon’s selection at the republican primaries. Saloon License Economics Saloon licenses, like any other commodity, follow the laws of supply and demand, subject to the same interruptions by reason of monopolies and corners. Just at present the demand for saloon licenses in Seattle is much greater than the supply. An artificial monopoly has been created by the ordinance which limits the number of saloon licenses to 315. There are 315 licenses in existence at present and a half a score of social clubs facing an alcoholic drought, because there is no license to be had. } The club, to which a license is as necessary as it is to a saloon, if it will exist, must secure a license somewhere; the city will sell no more, consequently the clubs must go to the saloons and bid for licenses. The result is that $2,500 is now being demanded for frac- tional licenses that originally cost but $1,000. The saloon man, or probably more properly the brewery, which bought a license, can now sell it at a profit of 150 per cent. Here it will be noted that we have the strange economic condition of the city creating a monopoly for the benefit, not of itself, but of the other party to the transaction, something | Mr. Rockefeller or other experienced monopolists never do. Naturally the thought arises, Why should not the city profit by this demand for saloon licenses? At present the city charges $1,000 for 315 licenses. Why not charge $2,000? In- stead of $315,000 a year revenue, the city would get much more, probably $500,000, making a pessimistic allowance for saloons that might not be able to pay so much. The first objection from the saloon and brewery, of course, | will be that such a charge is confiseatory. ‘This objection was made when the license was increased from $600 to $1,000, but| facts did not bear out its truthfulness to any extent. A few weaker saloons succumbed—that is, the brewery abandoned them—but for the most part the saloon business went on as profitably as before. Even should a $2,000 license materially reduce the number} of saloons, the community, aside from the brewery stockhold-| ers, would not suffer beyond consolation. The theory of lim ited saloon licenses recognizes the benefit of rest cting the number. If it is well for Seattle to have no more than 315] saloons, it is better to have no more than 200. Those who hold licenses today are glad that they have only 314 compe they should be g 199. titors, so adder to have but And, incidentally, there is plenty of room in the city treas- ury for the additional receipts. In a few days the man who al- Dr. Roller wrestled Frank Gotch ways furnishes the White House/before a large crowd in Kansas turkey gets his annual million dol-|City last night, The farther east lars’ worth of advertising. jYou go, the easter they get. ——— | As to the old gentleman who has! It i significant that the women been drunk for 10 years, the|who arc beat informed as to why Pertinent question is, “Where does|women marry are the women who he get it?” | have never tried = ieeitinniamecctocmerie jare hanged.” answered the solemn person.-Chicago News. Once in a wh the hook-worm gets into Wall ° why de As William bent over her fair face| stocks get ” sluggish’? he whispered, “Darling, if I should ask you in Prench if I might kiss! Visitor —Does the painter, Mater you, what would you answer?” live here? i She, calling up her scanty knowl-| Landlady—No; they are all re« edge of the French language, ex-|apectable people in this house.-Sim- claimed, t doux.”—Tit- Bit pilcissimus. queried the wound-be hu-| ‘There are not a few who wish morist, “where is that place Atoms|Madame Steinhell had remained that so many people are blown to?” | gagged censor over the one corking welcome, It's just the other side of figy, the place In which so many people ‘There's a St. Louis dog that grew THE STAR—TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1909 of olty—t year, ay 4 1 i month, 260, Matered le, Wash, postetites, a= nd-claws matter . HOW SHALL WE.SAVE OUR CITY’S BOYS AND GIRLS FROM VICE CLUTCH? JUDGE LINDSEY WRITES ON A TREMENDOUS PROBLEM OF TODAY Juvenile Court Reformer Discusses Startling Condi- tions as Disclosed by a Y. M. C. A. Childhood Survey in Detroit, a Typical American City——Not an Indictment of the Boy or the Girl, but of the Generation—Must Teach the Way to Purity. Mothers and fathers of Seattle, are you conactous of the perils that are lying {a wait for your boy and your girl? Do you know that recent tests made in two great American cities have proved that @ very large per cent. of young boys and girls are prey to vice in Ite worst forme? The Young Men's Christian Association has just finished an in quiry into the lives of boys and girls of Detgolt, Mich. Th y wan sole d because tt was typteal ither Detter ner worm than other cities. The results of the investigation are startling In Denver similar inquirtes have been made by Judge Ren 8. Lindsey, the famous juvenile court authority, What Jodge Lindsey says of conditions in Denver and elsewhere ts said for YOU. The editor of The Star asked Judge Lindsey to tell the mothers and fathers of Seattle what they ought to expect here, in view of what he knows of Denver, and what the Y. M. C. A. found out So today you may read Judge Lindsey's message to you, writ ten with all the earnestness of what Denver calla him--“an honest man,”-~Editor The Star, Miss Dillpickies Undertakes a Great Work as Censor at Taffeta & Baibriggan’s Great Department Store. BY FRED SCHAEFER. “THE GIRLS NEARLY ATE ME UP—BUT THAT'S GIRL FOR YoU. IT COULDN'T LAST.” 1, was going to be t When I steps into Taffeta & Bal briggan’s to take my new job as lesiadies, | had ‘© to see that they stack up to reasonable limits in the matter of dress and deport ment, you could already feel elec tricity In the air. However, some of them gushed all the more, on the Learning | was coming back, the |Principle of making themselves girls nearly ate me up—but that's | solid girl for you—it couldn't last Mr. Taffeta has told me to ease They would just naturally cool|#long the plan cautiously. “You down, but with me as a sort of boss |mteht begin by getting the fancy over them things were sure to be-|4ressers who don't have to pay come decidedly 90 degrees north|board at home to costume them. latitude. The forelady hasn't lived | Selves more Itke bread winners,” he who can risk mixing among her | Suggested. loving helpers without a chain mail| Did you get that? corset cover. afraid I'm in bad Sure enough, when I told them I (Continned.) wow! I'm fat on hydrophobla and lockjaw| Now York Hors how were won by germs fed to him at a hospital, Per-|the clothes horse haps it wasn't his day. E S . “Quarreied on thelr wedding day? She--George, dear, do you love! Dreadful! And what about?” me? “The bride's girl friends cried too He-—-Yea, darling, very much vogferously to sult the bride- Bhe—Thon say something soft and | groom."—Courler-Jgurnal nice to me. He—Oh, custard ple!—Judge. ‘Teacher the vice What are the dutias of president of the Ufited States? Young America—Ie has to play olf in the absence of the president, Puck, It's up to pellagra victims to ac knowledge the corn, As usual, the main laurels at the BY JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY (Denver's Famous Juvenile Court Authority and Reformer.) boyhood survey, made by the Men's Christian Associat of Detroit, Conditions among the youth of @ @ city are typical of those of other cities. I have sot any bt that the facts are as bad as they are :epresented, Allowing for more or less exaggeratin and unnecessary alarm that fol lows such inves ieations, the actual conditions dis closed are werk # Gnough to enlist the attention of every thought! citizen, expecially of fathers and mothers, who | ave the principal responsiblity for childhood. But thin re ponslbility ts a divided one, It must be shared by t © and soctety, which means, of course, every f dividual ax a part in it, either through sing of mission or comroission ‘These condi fons are not an indictment of the American boy, | ut rather of those who are respoust ble for the boy nd the girl, This generation is re sponsible for tiem. The children are not responsi bie for either thy ir presence In the world, or for con ditions, The best work that this generation can do ix to teach these children—the next generation~ how they may remedy these conditions, for the re. sults cannot be accomplished by thin generation. As it has taken several generations of lawlessness, selfishness and ignorance to bring about the shocking conditions referred to, it will take several to correct them. Christ warned us that if we of fonded against there little ones, the millstone should be hanged about our necks. We are beginning to feel the weight of the mill oné, In social and economic injustice we find the chief offense againet these little ones, but to the average minds this te so indirect I have read a summary of the Young state JUDGR LINDAHY, Misses’ and Women's Capes werge; | whield ] inatertais At thie p we give you val Dewemt wos far above the ordinary—- | foremost desi fit, fintsh—« three in One rm $82.59 to, supreme it fs not appreciated. am Inve j ality jour schools in one of the tigating a case of tmmor ent aver what is here investigat country These little are about TION, | years ot ag pretty, & almost wacril This very day,°as 1 write this, 1) girl who has these evil been subjected to communications, The mong school girls in one of | impurity and vileness that men do reaches down among the children. age neighborhoods in Denver, and/It spreads among them at Umes and i is more) in spots like a plague. than likely to extet in every school in similar neighborhoods in thi! could not live on $4 a week, and| The young woman of 20, who | had found It more pleasant to enter 13 |the primrose path that leads to the “everlasting bonfire, wae really a victim of her own conditions, a vic- tim of the society that sacrifices her as long as those who rule are sleek and fat and comfortable. Rut even they in the end muat wuffor, a8 we must all suffer for our selfishness and negiect. Our un- natural and unjust social and eco- homie condition re chiefly respon- sible for the impurity and immoral- ity that are more and more invading the child Ife of the nation. it tn absurd to aay that we had any such conditions 60 or 100 years ago. Fathers and mothers who will get confidential with their children and learn what what they think about and about, must admit that such con- ditiond were not prevalent in their own childhood. The girls who worked long hours in the laundry or candy factory, ar rested In a wine room or cheap dance hall and brought to my court, might well feel bitter at the social system that compelled them to suffer such temptations tn their younger lives. They did not carn enough, they sald, to live decently and wear good clothes and go with ———acvenececeee J Hioe people, and they had to have To look into their} #ome pleasure in life, or the bur poont faces It would seem ous to assume that den would be impossible to bear. Tt is true we cannot accept these an evil thought ever entered their! things as an excuse for immorality minds, and, under dgcent soctal con | ditions, such a thought never would have entered their minds The indecent literature among there girls start corrupting mission from source. The Uttle girl of 12 says that she worked In a department store during the summer. She tos tifies here in court that a woman she met there told ber many things she did not know before, and from her she obtained the notes that started through the school. Now, I believe that most young, selfaup ; Porting Women are pure and honor. able, notwithstanding the difficult | struggle they face. But of course some of them are not. This young woman earned $4 or $5 per week. Cannot her knowledge jot vice be traced to the pittance? The little gird earned $2.60 per week. These amall earnings were in both cases necessary to the support lof poor families, and yet families | who In intelligence and general dis jwosttion stand as high as t best Chriat taught us to pray, “Lead u# not tnto temptation.” there was the inference from Him that just. in propogtion as me boys and girls are tempted, to tha extent do we give evil the best chance. The well-dressed, comfortable man and woman in the front pew tn the church, whi these teachings of Christ are supposed to be incul cated, are in a large measure re- sponsible for the conditions that are poisoning the souls of these chil dren, and the millstone is being hanged about their necks when they least expect It. One of these little girla may, and frequently does, come from a wealthy home She has associated with some Following is a summory of the report of the committee of the Y M. C. A. on the morality of boys and girls in Detroit, Mich. Judge Lindsey believes that similar con- ditions exist in Seattle, Boys of wealthy parents are not better, morally, than those from poor homes, Middle class boys are better off than either Giris are, in many cases, as lack ing in morality as boys. Boys of the industrial districts patronize saloons and cheap thea tres freely Girls at amusement parks lure bays to evil pp Poh ive and immoral pictures are displayed for the temptation of the boys who visit penny picture booths. Pool rooms are stepping stones to evil, Fifty to 75 per cent of high school boys are habitual smokers, Indecent literature and pictures are circulated freely, especially among high school boys. Boarding houses should be regu. lated. cirealated | thin condition 1 upon it#/ stead of worse some | YOURE | tite Surely | DETROIT’S CHILDHOOD SURVEY or crime in the particular individ. ual, nefther can we ignore them }if we will do justice and expect to grow better, in Again, too many parents are too | poor or too rich to come into that |personal communion with child- }hood that ia necessary to a pure Some shirk their responsibil iity, and some are unable to dis- charge it. They expect the school to do too much. If the school would try to teach the boys and |sirls about those functions of life to them veiled in secrecy and mys tery, whieh they constantly try to penetrate, it might do more harm than good. if we inaist that the father should teach the boy, we find that in many cases there in no father, or he | goes to work at 5 o’elock in the | morning and gets home at 7 in the evening. In the struggle for exist ence he has little disposition or |opportanity to do his duty. Moth- jers are often similarly situated. Among the wealthy the child is not oblivious to what goe# on around him, and the home in which |the supposedly gentle form of gam- bling in bridge parties and tippling in wine suppers are going on is not | without its evil influence on the ehild then, there are so many too many to elaborate upon but until we get back to the principles of common hon plain esty, purity and decency in the or dinary aifairs of life, and insist upon them in business, in politica, in society, we cannot expect any different result than that horrible jcondition disclosed by the investi gation in Detroit. Information was largely sought from those whose official or pro: fessional positions placed them in & position to have the greatest pos. sible knowledge of conditions. A limited time was spent in the streets of the red lght district, watching those entering known disreputable houses, but no conver sation or interviews were held there. 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