, 1872-10-24
Masculine Mysteries.

EDITOR Some male Phari-
see in the last hteliqencer, over the sig
niture R, H., assumes the Office of
an "apologist of vice." while disclaim-
ing the title, and launches forth into a
TRADE against 81. L. b." as lady of
uneasy virtue," doubtless because he is
a man of very easy virtue himself. He
charges her with writing several gasp
ing letters (whatever that may meal
to you; while he strives hard to show his
wonderful learning in literary common
places by talking about Mrs. Stoves
"Byronic filth, the " "German student
who evolved out of his inner conscious
ness his idea of camel" CDR. john
son as ga good hater," the "Spartans'
parade of drunken helot before their
children to beget proper horror Of in
ebriety," the old maxim of saying moth
ing but good of the dead, which he
quotes only in Latin; and even dares to
cite the god-like Nazarene of Palestine,
that indignant denouncer of vice and
orime in the lawyers, doctors and Phari-
sees of his day, as though his name
could be used without sacrilege to up
hold impurity and immortality.
And what is the aim Of all this display
of-cheap erudition in favor of bad
cause ? Why, simply to draw off the
attention of the public from the true
merits of the question agitated by j. L.
B. to one or two unimportant incidents
merely alluded to by her and not at all
affecting the vital and real points of her
discussion. Her great aim was to show
in its true colors monstrous evil that
is eating out the heart and sapping the
moral life of Seattle and which If left
unchecked will empty the purse, destroy
the health, debase the character, tarnish
the honor, pollute the lives, and over
whelm with woe and infamy in the
future as in the past, hundreds and hun
dreds of young anc middle aged men
who are constantly drawn into the vile
depths of that terrible gulf of shame,
the standing disgrace Of our community.
How many unmarried men from the
farms and logging camps around the
Sound are daily and nightly lured into
this sink of iniquity ? How many ma
sons, carpenters, painters, and other
mechanics How many clerks, mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors and even heads
of families prostitute their honor in
these outskirts of hell :?
use the word these purposely for I
am credibly informed that already there
are five squaw- -brothels, and one white
women's brothel besides that of John
Pencils in our little town; so rapidly
is this vile vice spreading abroad the
foul seeds of its hellish infection. Is
it not time for our citizens to awake from
their lethargic sleep? "R. H." thinks
that "the modest mothers of Seattle
have common sense and common de-
cency,'' I think so too, and I think they
will show these two qualities in the
highest degree by their most earnest eff
forts to strike down, root out, and utter
ly destroy that soul-and- Notwithstanding
poison, growth of which "R. H."
makes himself the willing apologist.
He seeks to cover with odium the no.
blest work that pure woman can en-
gage in. As mother having at heart
the welfare of my sons just growing up
into manhood. 1 honor the benevolent
zeal of my young friend 81. L. B., "but
detest and abhor the unholy aim of R.
H." She would save our young men
from vice, disease, poverty and crime.
He would encourage and help those vii
lainous establishments which are con-