Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-30
OUR YOUNG: GIRLS.

No greater or nobler duty de-
wolves upon q community or its
local newspaper, than a protection
Of female virtue against insult or
communicating influences to which
it is liable at any time to be SUBJ
ject by contact with the world and
the dregs of the community in
which its lot may have been cast.
There is no jewel moro precious,
no flower more tender and needy
Of care from blight, than the
young girls Of city; and as
mother-bird watches her young
and helpless offspring, so should
the parent and the good citizen
foster and protect, for virtues
sake. the young and inexperienced
girls Of . community. There are
in. every community q class OF
men-no, not MEN, but FILTHY
ouRs-who are ever ON the alert to
assail the virtue and moral charac-
ter Of q woman whenever an oppor-
tunity offers. If they have the
courage to do it openly, they are
bold. II towards, as they usually
are. they seek to accomplish their
hellish purpose through defamation
and secret threats. There are ano-
Their class of human hyenas, how
ever, who, lacking the nerve of the
brute just mentioned, confine their
base operations to the youthful
girls Of q community, and as per-
sistently seek their ruin as the
crazed assassin pursues his uncon-
scious victim. No girl over ten
years Of age, Of comedy figure and
handsome face, is safe in the COM
pany Of these lecherous, unprin-
eipled ours, for q moment. Threats
Of harm. brides of affection and
money, and every course known to
the libertines who ply this nefarious
calling, are pursued to overthrow
the virtuous objections of the un-
protected child, until blinded by
false promises, and excited to a degree
where even reason for the moment
departs, youthful virtue succumbs
and-RuIN follows. Virtue once lost
always lost! The jewel once stolen,
can never be replaced! The casket
is left to moral decay, and the soul
to contemplation beside which Or
binary misery is unspeakable joy,
and physical torture a soothing ca
ress. Beauty without virtue-like a
flower without fragrance-is left to
wither and die unheeded, save by the
glances of those who pass by
in sorrow that SO rare flower should
he unworthy of plucking. Mot hers,
look we'll to your girls! Counsel
them as the good father counsels his
son when he sees him depart out
into the strange world over the
parental Threshold. Tell them this:
Tell them to shun as they would a
leper the man who would say an i'm
proper thing in their presence, or
who would approach them in any
manner that savors of personal IA
miliarity. Teach them not to have
fear, but to brave and publicly ex-
pose and resent an insult. Thisis the
surest protection, for a justly indig-
nant community will protect them
and punish the miscreants who are
guilty Of the indecency. We say, the
libertine is an inhabitant of every
community. We hope we are wrong,
90 far as Silver City is concerned, but
If we are not, every word we have
said will have its application. We
speak for the benefit Of the young
girls Of our community. The woman
and young lady of the nineteenth
century, in Nevada, is competent to
protect herself. We may refer to
this matter again; and if we do,
every word will be as a brand of fire
on the soul of him who dares to in
snlt the little girls who live within
the iurisdiction OF this paper.