The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-01-11
Che Tiutna AetnrG.
The Mercer Scheme.---A Warming
10 Young Women.---What Cali
fOrnia saws to MASSACHUSETTS,.

AOt hAt w
Not long siuce man named Mercer
gathered up several bundled girls in New
England IND shipped them to some port on
the paciic clasi. They were oil prumis "a
good wages gn1 happy homes. The vessel
in which they sailed is yet 1t IS a, One OF
the San Francisco papers, u tie cap-
tion Of Som thing to be stopped re-
marks:
I'VE see, with No little Surprise alHfn-
digna ton; that the Me?rcr IDS actually gor
together thpu.rrd Of more daughters OF
marlyred sOliirrS uud others, and his start
ed luT II i, coa,l with !hem. They aIo tod
that homes AID loving husbands Hwai,
lhcm on their arrival Tnc whole project
isa deiusiol the oiT,pGns OF The bf5in Of
n fana!cal fool. ur melhiGg d thousand
times uOrs'. That there are mlly Young
men in the P cifc 5 aicS who are unmar.
ried is doubtless true. That there are
thousands here who never woald marry il
they had the opportunity, Onl other thous
snds who never ought to BE- allowed to
marry ot all From The very nature of the
country, the pursuits Of the population and
the unstable, unsettled condition O. things
IN the mining regions, the larger ndm5er Of
men do not marry aud become possessed Of
permanent hCmes and the influx Of a lhCu
sand or Two unprotected females would add
nothing to the mordlitJ of the county.
while the poor gIls themselves wopld be
exposed to perils which no loving parent
or brother would be willing to haze them
meet.
II these girls are the daughters of Un.
ion soldiers, they deserve better of their
country aud the States Of their birth than
to be thus transported for life, like so many
conrictS to Australia, II is a cheap wa7
Of getting rid of them, no doubt, but it re-
fleets no credit on the State Or States gull
ty of transporting them. The chances Of
awell educated, refined and intelligent fe.
male marrying well in the Pacific States
to-day are not greater than in the Atlantic
States, while the perils to which they are
inevitably exposed are ten times greater.
i is known to our police that the houses
OF iIl-lame in San Franciscoaare systemal.
icaly supplied from New England with
young girls ga theTel into depo!S in Boston
BY regular PROGRESSES, whose business il is
to take orders Tor any given number, and
forward lhen Oy steamer, as i've STOCK or
other goods and chat;els are forwarded on
consignment. A case fully waranting
this statement was before the police court
las. week, and on Two Of the young girls
being ;oll by the Judge that The papers
they had signed in Boston, srlually bills
Of sale Of their persons or mortgages to
the Pike-street dens who advanced the mo-
ney for their passage here, were null and
void in law, and they were at liberty to 60
where they pleased The disappointed tisress
coClly remarked l.: Well, we shall have a
full supply soon brought out here free Of
charge, and we shall not need TO import
any more at our own expense? ? ! lmake no
charge directly or Indirectly agairs. Mr.
Mercer, who may be the purest anil most
phianthropc individual above ground but
for Heavens sake, let the press Of the cJun-
try east Of the Rocky Mountains spauk cut
and put stop to this business. Let no
more unprotected females be exported to
the perils Of these shores"