, 1880-08-29

To tbs Editor Of The Chicago Trfbune
CHICAGO, Aug. as.-aIr. at. p in your last
Sundays Issue said that "cight out of every ten
women could be bought for money! and advises
Mrs. julia Ward Howe mot to throw stones"
This comes from his "own observation Of
quite number Of years. This he gives to de-
fend the press Where has ST. p" been living
all these years? Did he fall to noto he Is SO OBJ
servtne} that nearly eight out Of every ten women
who were bought were bought by men? Did he
note that these men we're hidcous by Nature,
and that their only aim In life was to destroy nil
that is good and bcAutffuI? Did he notice
how like vultures they were; how they were
ouly satisfied when all around them w:ts
changed to carrion? Did he notice that those
buyers of woman virtue loved vice SO we'll and
by its communicating influence had become dead
to all that was pure; that they, before all other
men, have more unblushlng andacity; that l their IL
insult every household, because Of tho freedom
of the press? Did u. F." ever take the pains
to the souls Of seh msn2 Did ne
Ing such price for such small mite OF bread
they RaveI Did he see thAt every step they
Ras hs al 81 hs IN
and has he no pity? Or has his own soul grown so
small! that cen i'll such dread plnce as DAntc's
soul to dwell? ..Why did not ~. r." 70 further
with the mire he would throw upon the public
md say, an women can Ie bought, except my
rawhidc, ~. Pr; they don't use them In Chi
cago Seduction IS only little tudiscretton OF
youth: Rape is only punishable with one or TWO
yents in Joliet fwhonItho jury is not "Hxed =.
But think II you live in one section OF this
country they would stop bulldoZtny nigrcrs
long enough to attend to one case &c ieast' and
the nearest frog pond would receive us a new
tenant one more assaflcr Of woHans virtue; or
nli thnt Is good one who to defend the press
stopped to the most contemptnble Of all i,sults = q
Buying the Press and Buying Women.
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-In Sundays issue ". P, y
commenting on the remark OF Julia Ward Howe,
that tho press was q purchasable commodity.
hits buck by declaring that from number OF
years of observation he has come to the cqpclu-
sion that money will also buy eight out Of every
ten women into legal marriage t1noney being
the consideration, or into sexual sin outside OF
marriage.
I cure not to defend the remark OF Mrs-
Howe, for she is undoubtedly able to takc cure
Of herself, but do want to "lift the hair OF
the vile slnnderur of my mothers sex, aud II
there is man in Chicago or out 9f It who d9cs
to the business end Of mule, let
him be accursed:, / had hoped u. F." was some .
mother, but the many years." experience OF
which he boAsts prevents that chnritaoc con
ciusion. He Is. evidently old enough 70 nav, nave
and two Of these (which he does not tell ne de-
iiberatoly informs us have been sold, or nre
ready for sale, into state OF money -marrlage,
or sexual sin outside Of marriage: for, at best,
his per cent OF eight out Of ten could only leave
two OF the four virtuous.
For shame, man, though man you are not
Have you no remembrance OF mothers love,
no memory Of sisters affection. no recollection
OF wife'6 devotion, 0r daughters lnnocenI
happy pr:ttle, aud girlish, Eleeful. wlnsome
ways? Where do you live! by whom are you
surrounded? Is your vision Of these things
confined to tho saloon. the oeor-garden; the
bruthel and the pave? Havo you Indeed been
50 unfortunate RS to have lost mother, Wi1e.
sister and daughter in the wh:rsing vortex OF
| social sin, and therefore rather covct an op-
portuuity to say that nil women arc so7 Il sucn
5s the fact, you are to be pitEed, but no element
Of pity snould, reach you until you a repent OF
utterin9 so foul sla11der agnint the femate sex:
| No ~. P" outside Of the limited range ol
| your moral vision lie happy homes. blessed
| with happy mothers. noble wives loving Sisters
and virtuous daughters, dwelling fn an innu-
cunce Of life and purity Of atmosphere, to which
YOU nre evidently stranger
No, you evidently have no wire, or sts1er- OF
dauphter. Nobody but an illegitin'ate son M G1
an abandoned woman could evet utter sucn
elanderous assertions ayainst women whose
persons have been hcnor's fortress md virtue 8
Shrine in all ages and all lands. Araunt- toou
| sanderer Of my mothers sex. WEST SIDE