Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Social Evil in Syracuse: Being the Report of an Investigation of the Moral Condition of the City
The responsibility for the publication of this report of the moral survey Of Syracuse is assumed by the Committee Of Eighteen. The judgment of the committee has been fortified and strengthened by that of more than fifty other men and women who have read the report and approve its publication. The work was conducted under the direction Of the executive officers of the American Vigilance Association, and the actual investigation of conditions was made by its expert investigators, in whose moral character the Committee has every confidence. They have performed a difficult and disagreeable task with commendable thoroughness and discretion. The Committee Of Eighteen assures the citizens of Syracuse that every statement made in the report is borne out by the facts. Indeed, under statement has been the constant policy of the Committee. The purposes of this report are, first, to inform the citizens of Syra cuse of the actual conditions relative to vice and prostitution; second, to awaken the conscience of the city and arouse a public sentiment that shall compel the present and all future administrations thoroughly and insistently to enforce the laws relative to prostitution and the liquor traffic and third, to suggest means of reducing prostitution that have been adopted in other cities and states with marked success. In this way Syracuse may be freed from the horde of men and women who make a business of commercializing vice, and who resort to every means to lure the youth of both sexes into their toils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
