The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-12-17
ST. LOUIS AGAIN DISTURB
BED.
The Future 0reta q 0omorrah-
An Elk Mayors Shocking Testl-
mOny.

IOundly agitated bv discussion Of the
.ocial evil, the Ex Mayor. Chief Of
Police. aud Others advocating the
regulation Of the nuisance by law,
while certain clergymen. with large
no:al element behind them, are CRYING
nut agains. any law that might have
the appearance Of licensing vice. Ex-
Mayor Brown has written the follow
ing letter on the subject:
To Hon. q. w. Parker:
DEAR SIR-Your postal card. ask
ing me to be present at a meeting Of
your committee To discuss the social
evil question. is received, but business
me to leave the CITY this
will prevent nv attendance
| desire, however, to say that ! have
seen no reason TO change. hut rather
to confirm. the opinion ] formed some
wears ago in regard to the social evil
question. know the social evil law
Vas imperfect and Liable To the hue
and cry OF licensing crime" but
tine spectacle m many Of our streets
ard at tie windows Of many Of the
houses after niyhtfall, at present, is
such as to make any man who is down
town after night, and is cognizant of
the true state Of things. cry out for the
law 20 restrain
THIS TERRIBLE EVIL.
l know there are those. who, rather
than recognize its existence, would
shut their eyes and cry Peace.
Peace" when there is no peace. and
when this evil is not only saPping the
morals of society but filling she veins
Of the coming generation with moral
and physical leprosy. 1t is all very
well for the father Of family Of BOYS
to sit up in bis comfortable home in
Stoddard addition or on Grand avenue,
and imagine that the social evil can
not reach him. Be not deceived.
Your sons. whether by inclination or
not. are liable to be enticed into those
glided dens and carry away with them
the seeds Of disease that will not only
breed in them a living death, but ini-
part them to generations unborn.
Ask any physician where much of the
scrofula. skin and throat diseases
rigiuite. and they will be compelled
to tell Won that it had its origin in
syphilis. and here is where the ''sins
OF the frtl,ers are visited upon the
children to the third and fourth gen
erations.'
Ii is not strange then that there are
ministers Of gospel and others who
will say LET disease multiply and
fructify. Let the innocen, suff-r with
the guilty" How many of these
gentlemen would knowingly be will
ing to have one Of these physical
lepers marry into his family, aud vet
the proportion of such. from state
ments that l have from physicians in
this city, is appalling. Do they want
their daughters to run the gauntlet
with SO manv chances against them,
and then have their young offspring
carried cf with incipient disease. being
no more or J., IS than secondary
syphilis. fer physicians will tell you
that there Is no certain permanent
cure for that awful scourge for violat-
ing the laws Of nature, which are the
laws of God. Let the minister Of the
GOSPEL or the retired merchant come
down town to the corner of Sixth and
Elm streets and watch the gilded bells
there, and see If his son does not enter
there, and if he Goes not. he will find
some other persons son equally re-
spectacle. Go to Lucas avenue
formerly Green street) and find the
windows full of painted corruption.
urging every person to come in. Go
ON Fourth, Fifth. Sixth. Olive. Locust,
St. Charles. or Pine street, or in fact
any street east Of Seventeenth street.
after night, and you will meet them
by the hundreds, the more modest Of
them seeking a recognition and the
more bold are the first to make it.
While one Of these poor. miserable,
unfortunate street-walkers, for many
Of them are driven to it, was a patient
and . prisoner at the Social Evil
Hospital, she stated that she (beiore
the Law went into force) inveigled as
many as eighteen men in enc night to
her room. How then en- any man
be in favor of the continusace Of such
state Of things. ! believe there is
more promiscuOus intercourse between
men and women in St. Louis to-day.
in proportion to the population. than
in any other city in the United States.
say that the man who favOrs the
spread Of the most lOathsome. virulent
aud incu.able disease known to human
ity merely because there was original
crime ut the back Of it, should have
lived in the dark ages. see nothing
either humanitarian or Christian in
such sentiment. Do not delude
yourselves that because there ia now
no safeguard from disease that there
fore these places will pot he frequented-
Pass along the streets, as | have to.
and you Will see and hear the traffic
going on at almost every corner east
of Eighth street after night, 80 thar it
seems to be a legitimate industry
without the law tn regulate it. /
have only time to add that ! sincerely
hope some clause will be injected into
the charter to restrain it. as by tho
history Of all time it seems that We
can not eradicate the evil.
Respectfully, JOSEPH BKOwN.