Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — PORT SAID. [ARTICLE]

PORT SAID.

There may be viler towns than Port Said. We have never seen them. Leadville in its most flourishing and fiercest days could not equal this city at the mouth of the Suez canal, says a correspondent of the Kansas City Journal. If ten righteous men were needed to save this town of 35,000 people, it would go unsaved. The inquiry, “Do you want anything?” which in Egypt covers a multitude of sins, is met with from small boys upon the main streets. Vice which in American cities hides itself in the back alleys here flaunts itself in gay gauze garb and brazen face upon the boulevards. It is a made town, on made earth, and its manufacture is. not morally a success. The few decent people condemned by business necessity to dwell in Port Said console themselves by the assertion that all new towns go through this period of viciousness, and Port Said is not a quarter of a century old. After seeing Port Said we do not wonder that Moses fled into the wilderness.