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purity in this city and cry out against
harlotry and pollution. Is it not so
What then? Keep silence? Let the ul-
cerous cancer continue to spread on our
body social until its comeliness is all de-
stroyed, its very heart turned to fester-
ing corruption and its breath become
pestiential Be silent and let the tide
of unclcanliness roll on until every oar
rier of virtue be broken down and it
thoroughly deluge our streets! Ah F!
Must virtue and the law for its protec-
ton be trampled in the mire by harlots
and their pin. ps while their friends and
sworn executors cover in silence and
dare not lift finger to raise them up p!
And yet this is city where civilization,
christian refinement, ana virtuous fami-
lies dwell Then let shame write her
sentence on the blanched cheek of ev-
cry professed friend of virtue and purity
Virtue, if not in action, is a vice;
And, hen not forward, we go backward
Citizens of Nevada; suppose certain
persons not at all in sympathy with you
and who cared nothing for the true in
terests Of your children, should establish
on every street and most public parts of
the city, dens of wild beasts and SER
pents, and should claim the right of
turning them out even into the streets
so as to endanger the lives of your chill
dren as they passed to school or walked
the streets. Would you submit to such
outrages! And suppose you had laws
to prevent them from injuring you thus,
to protect you and your children, and
that you had elected public officers and
paid them good salaries to suppress
them, and they should do no such thing
Would you keep silent! Would you
content yourselves to keep your chill
dren at home OF suffer patiently name
less apprehensions when they are out of
your sight,-would youl But you say
our children are exposed to no such dam
ger. True, only worse. " ould you
not rather your son would be brought
home mengled by the fangs of the wild
beast than that he should return to your
parental embrace from the haunt of pol
luton, robbed of his innocence and pu-
rityl Would younot rather your loved
daughter would be taken into the SER
pents folds than lured into the wies of
the black hearted lfbertine and de-
bauchee, or doomed to Efe of infamy
But 1 ask you are they not daily and
nightly exposed to such dangers! Have
you no apprehensions for the purity of
your children whom out in these streets?
If not, may God pity you and them, by
speedily taking them to heaven. But
why should you thus be compelled to
keep your children at home or live in
apprehensionS when out of your sight!
If Mr.. Groves, or Mr.. Kent should To-
cate his slaughter house on the street
near you, and endanger your own or til
health of your children, by the effluvia
of the offals, you would not suffer him to
do so. Neither would you sell out or
move, to get out of reach of the nui-
sance; and if you should, you ought to
be compelled to live in slaughter yard
until you were man enough to demand
and defend your rights. No, you would
not for moment submit to such yio-
lation of your own and the rights of So
ciety. Well now who gives Madam
Bawd and her letcherous pimps the
right to multiply their haunts of pollu-
ton on every street, display their scenes
of impudent licentiousness on the side
walks and make the very atmosphere
foul and pestilential Why should a
decent man as he walks the street be iu-
suited by the significant motions of
disgusting har!ots, or as he gets in the
stage with his wife to go TO a neighbor-
ing town, have one Of the loathsome
creatures thrust in along side, half drunk
and a cigar in her mouth !
But you say what can we do? Do 2?
Much every way. Anything would be
tetter than to continue mum, do moth
ing, and let this corrupting evil run ram
pant in the streets. Combine together.
Call a public meeting. Organize a So
ciety or party in behalf of virtue and
decency. And in your own behalf, of
your children and your neighbors chill
dren, let it be decreed, st, that prosti-
tuition as it now exists in Nevada is an
evil which no decent man can tolerate
or defend.
I'd. That we have law on the stat
ute book for its suppression, and that we
have eInctad n District Attorney and