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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1884)
308 THE WEST SHORE. , . iw rannmmniu or me enun or men earner wuu mTe mnie7 to tl truth tUt, eterj in the moot favoring condition, the law of the Infinite nnmrf Ls a.........! .L. : :. i.. i - . .i.muTI wim iuituuii. u 11 mn, euouicu w array bkhijihi tint mil the nm, tli moral mwm anil the prnclinil eflort of eerr riiihu ""''" " " mia lanu r iniirhl them not to he arratl aK'iinxt it u pulilic ntiment '"U in it wholeneea, inrlnilee the top and bottom and middle of -x-irtjt There anxlit no to be an; oompromiae; there mnut lie ntilinilixin l. it i Now. H few Words to the neonle of Ornrrnn nn1 fianA . j , j cmlly to the intelligent and moral portion of the citizens . TV il ... iu orciauu. lou nave in your midst a paper breathing weekly upon this city fumes as foul and poisonous as the worst of those which have aroused the parents of the East to an effort to protect their children from the im- moral contagion. Like a deadly miasma, it penetrates through every barrier erected against it and defies all effort to quarantine or disinfect it Though a measure of protection" can bo thus secured, there is no effective safeguard but a complete removal of the cause of the contagion itself. That such a moral cancer should exist in our midst, and thrive upon the destruction of purity and morality, is a disgrace to the city of Portland. Lacking the gaudy and suggestive pictures of the Police Qazrlte and other wealthier, but no more corrupt or uegraumg, publications, its printed contents are suffi ciently more nasty and impure to bring it down to the depths occupied by tho lowest of them. Emanating from the brains of ?uen who live in public and notorious immorality, it sketches pen pictures of the most revolting scenes, the greater portion of them purely imaginary, couched in repulsive and ungraramatical language, and then, with a hyxcritical sigh, draws such a moral as piiiswijiieies might upon the fall of Marguerite. It even mockingly calls uxu tho ministers of the gospel to aid it in suppressing tho groat immorality of the city of tho existence of which it certainly has the most direct ..u jiuve imorinaiion, ami is m itself the most con racing evidence. Of the tendency of such publications w" oi niicii publishers, Mr. Carlisle says: W am tirin.fiwl lit? Ik. ... fro u ...r f T:rr wor,u h-ew k- i . -.-i.uii I'jramiu we eiulllliii r watrli thi. PTTrZh "-'!. , .... Hal. UwoVhXwnthe who li h.T . T " , " pr"Tu Umt mk"" wrrender to Uia men no live to hunlina tirtiuaiul k,... ..j k .. j . . . ehUUre. .fc U weiKht rf temporal and eternal calamity? WW if w. 7 n. defend th. wUo fiU M( wi,n .LJJ i4erl.TuT w . . l",l'u" P""' boam, and den of infamy. The . d-d. iwij,!".rrf--i For the existence of such a sin. t..n K: , - uumui-ra men aro alone rtponHihk Without the financial support derived frtun it n.1v..rt;u;.... ..t f ' , . , :.'7 k .imuiis us career would be . brief ,.. ,th ,u circulation chiefly in the slums of the cty sought after by gamblers and scarlet women, devoured by loafers and men who work only when com' pelled by the decree of neceasity, and read hastily on Uie ly by the youth of both sexes, who fear to be Observed 5 f " d,ffi0UU. 10 DCeive how n ertise- ment in U columns can be of the slightest value to a mitUng that it La. value, our busineas men owe it as a duty to themselves, their children and the commnuity t large, to withhold from it the patronage which enables it to Hto nnd tflint the nir vith its impuiili. Fear invented scandalous stories, often threHteiifd mid hhi at to procure business, should not lead then, t,, ion suffer this evil to exist What possible inm ,.,. Z vilest slander of such a sheet do to the character of man who has lived an upright life and gained a reputa. tion for integrity and morality during years nf .:i intercourse and business dealings with his neighbors? It cannot have the slightest weight, and considerations of that character should not lead our business men mit the crime for it is a crime against their families and against civilization of sustaining it in its degrading career. What will vou do abont. it? Thebe is no denying the fact that National , ' fuUMUU campaigns are of vast injury to the general prosperity of the country. They encourage idleness; stir up strife and discontent; compel the expenditure of vast nnm. f money in utterly useless and unprofitable ways; encour age the corruption of a large class of people already possessing too low a standard of morals: dull thn J wuv UVJUUM) of the people to the heinousness of many offences, both political ana moral; and by slanders manufactured by unscrupulous men, and reDeated bv better. . , , ' " -fj-w- less, citizens, destroy our confidence in the men who ad minister our public affairs and stand in the front rank of our representative statesmen. For six months the Deoole are consumed by a raging fever, whose effects linger long after the cause of excitement has died away, and are never fully eradicated from "the national system. The millions of dollars wasted for political purposes, if invested in needed and useful enterprises, or added to the savings of the thousands of comparatively poor men who are led by contadous enthusiasm into fixeossiva and needless expenditures, would add greatly to the material wealth and prosperity of the country, increase the sum total of happiness and contentment and thus do much to guarantee the safety and perpetuity of our National Gov ernment The easiest and most natural remedy, which is by no means a cure, but a partial alleviation, is a less frequent occurrence of thnaA Avtmrr nAn'nln- nnd to this measure of relief we will be ultimately impelled by iuivhj oi circumstances. The Knights of Labor in British Columbia are criti cising very severely tho conduct of the Commission sp- pointed by the Dominion Government to investigate the Chinese question. Thev clmr that when the Commis sion visited Nanaimo th AV rofnul fr. Yinlfl A fii til Tiff fit that place, the Knights being prepared to give strong' anti-Chinese testimony; that they only sat a few hours in New Westminster: that in Vint limned to full pro-Chinese testimony, but when the Knights offered to give evidence on the other aide they were told to "put it in writing"- and send it to Ottawa. They have "put in writing" in the hru. . v?!. t th Thine m British Columbia, which document will be laid before we lAiminion Parliament