Agitation, publicity and prosecutions were maintained until the scandalous crib district of Los Angeles was absolutely annihilated. The French traders recognized that the city was no longer a market for girls and turned their cargoes aside to other cities, that love these monstrous beasts so dearly that they give them segregated districts, where they may enslave young girls and debauch young men, with assurance that laws are contemptible, and graft is precious, and the good people have sand in their eyes. The story of the destruction of the open market for girls in Des Moines is best told in the following articles of the commissioner of public safety, the chief of police and the city physician. The determination to annihilate the dens which had been protected so long was caused in part by the high crime of bringing back a girl who had escaped to another city, to compel her to work out a debt in one of the dives of Des Moines. We are indebted for these articles to The Light, published at La Crosse, Wisconsin, by B. S. Steadwell. THE NIGHTMARE ENDED IN DES MOINES. By J. L. Hamery, Superintendent, Department of Public Safety. Of all the cities of the United States, Des Moines stands today a bright and shining example of the utter fallacy of the "segregation" idea. Practiced more or less openly for twenty years or more, now, after a few months of freedom, the past seems like a nightmare, which it is impossible to believe will ever be tolerated in this city again. In a short paper, hurriedly prepared, it will be impossible to give much more than general statements of opinion. We have affidavits, statistics of arrest, opinions of high-class citizens, opinions of independent investigators from other states, statements from experience by police officials and city physicians to support the following: Segregation, as applied to prostitution, is but another term for "incubation." Segregation is the nucleus and backbone of the White Slave Traffic. Segregation provides a resort, refuge and hiding place for criminals and thugs of every description. Segregation is affiliated with gambling, bootlegging, opium and cocaine joints. Segregation, with its red lights, its music, the painted women in the windows, etc., provides an educational feature for school children and students, the possibilities of which can be better imagined than described. Segregation could never be made to completely segregate, but rather, provided a center from which prostitution radiated in every direction like a cancer. Segregation makes its baleful influence felt in business and politics and is a direct factor in all the criminal influence of a large city.