. Pacific municipalities and counties . ositions of high authority and can do no greater service towardsyour own communities, and towardshumanity, than by doing your part toarouse public opinion, as well as by itaking such legal action as is open to|you to reduce the extent of this ter-rible evil. J There is no place in an Ililightened^modern city for a segregated dis-trict. Aside from the evil moral in-fluence which such a district exerts, |it isill to decrease jirostitution, as some ofits advocates have claiiiiccl. It in-ei-eases luostitution in its worst does not tle
. Pacific municipalities and counties . ositions of high authority and can do no greater service towardsyour own communities, and towardshumanity, than by doing your part toarouse public opinion, as well as by itaking such legal action as is open to|you to reduce the extent of this ter-rible evil. J There is no place in an Ililightened^modern city for a segregated dis-trict. Aside from the evil moral in-fluence which such a district exerts, |it isill to decrease jirostitution, as some ofits advocates have claiiiiccl. It in-ei-eases luostitution in its worst does not tlecrease graft; it increasesgraft. It does not decrease crinu-. butincreases it. • It is claimed by advocates of thesegregated district that it is necessaryas an outlet for certain human in-stincts, lint every one knows thatthere ari human instincts or impulsesw liicli arc e\il and slnnild lie re|)ressedrather than meouraged. Most people s i a constant and cver-fresli It does not ten^ PACIFIC MUNICIPALITIES 231. tVcl at times more or less of an in-stinct, if so it might be termed, to-^^•arlls gambling or speculation. Butwould any sane man claim that theway to curl) such desires would lie anoccasional turn at a farf) table or be-foie a roulette wheel. Such instinctsare curbed and minimized by re))ress-mg them, not by giving way to would be thought of the argu-ment of a man who claimed that theway to stop gambling in a given citywould be to have open gamblinghouses in a certain section and notpermit them elsewhere? Not less ab-surd is the claim tiiat a segregated?district decreases prostitution and ven-?ereal disease. We should have a law that no man?can marry until he has shown that heis free from veueral disease. Such alaw is not an effort to punish him forsome past moral dereliction. It doesnot need to be defended or discussedfrom the moral viewjjoint. The StateV such a law does not attempt toregulate anybodys morals. Pint theState does .sa
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