, 1872-11-21
Mothers, Wives, Daughters and
Sisters of Seattle.

SlSISvS OF SSdLLiG.
The detestable, soul and body-destroy-
ing thing has been stirred up and its
infectious and devastating influence
among our citizens is becoming so ap-
parent that we can no longer shut our
eyes to its ravages, nor our ears to the
cry of those whc are calling with voice
and pen, 40, friends of morality and
virtue, of religion, of all that is pure,
and true, and noble, in the family, in
society, and in the church; come to the
rescue Of your loved ones; come up
and help us to rid our community of
the foul thing" Shall the appeal be
in vain, with J. L. B. | ask, what are
you going to do with it. Are you,
mothers. willing to let the thing settle,
and tester, and pollute the whole moral
atmosphere Of Seattle, until your sons
are ruined, soul and body with its foul
contagion, and you raise neither hand
nor voice 10 SdNe tHtii! No Aio.hoi
among You, no wife, sister, nor daugh
ter, can siirk her responsibility by say
iag: My son is in no danger;' ''my
husband is virtuous man" my father,
my brother is honorable and upright
NV household can never be entered by
the fell destroyer" All, wives! All,
mother, sister, daughter! the enemy
may already have sapped the foundation
of your citadel. Mother. that son on
whom you look with so much PRIDE,
that son, on whom you hope to lean for
support in your declining years. may
have already become victim to that
most loathsome Of all diseases; may
have entered the gates that lead down to
he'll. He will keep you in ignorance OF
his true condition as long as he can,
but when the crushing truth at last
breaks with its full force upon you, you
will cry out in the agony of your soul:
&c Not my son. 0, tell me not that my
son has fallen victim to ---. Oh.
my God! language Is too tame to express|
its deep and damning signihcation!
And you, sister, who look upon that
brother with all sisters affection and
trust; know you not, that when you
praise his manly virtues, his cheeks
blush, not with honest pride, but with
the conscious shame that he is being
slowly consumed by an infection con-
tracted at the brothel? But to yon,
wives, what shall l say to you. to arouse
you to realizing sense of your duty to
yourselves, to your husbands, and to
your children yet unborn, rs well as to
the feeble, pulling, nervous, depraved
ones already taxing your strength and
love to the utmost. Do you know where
your husbands are when evening calls
them down town to attend to special
business? Are you aware that i'll many
cases, were you to follow them, you
would find them in places where they
would blush to have you know they re-
sort? Yes, wives, your husbands, the
respectable men of Seattle; who do not
visit John W. Pinnell's establishment as
much as formerly" are ne, ertheles con-
tracting the same moral degradation and
infection in that "other estab-
lishment - which is so much more con-
situated, carrying pollution,
feeblaness and premature death to their
wives, and moral and physical disease to
their offspring. Are you willing to en-
dure all this Will not the love you
bear your husband and children prompt
you to action? Mothers, can you sit
idly by while your sons are being slain
before your eyes? Sisters, daughters,
do you not feel your responsibility? The
work is 10 be done. Seattle must be
purified; and all that can contaminate
the morals of the people expelled from
among us. "How will you do it, do
you ask? With J. L. B., answer, first
demand that the thing be broken up by
the proper authorities, and if your de-
mand is not needed, THEN BREAK IT UP,
if you have to burn it to the ground.
You are not as helpless as you think.
Once let the women of Seattle become
aroused 10 a sense of their duty regard
ing this thing, and it would not stand
there three days polluting the place with
its vile influence. Tis trSe, that Pin