Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-02-27


come the learning and strategy of thu
man. They said: What a wretch
this girl is y
Business brought the man to an
other part of the country. His &C
quaintance with the poor girl was
known only to a few, and these, as we
have said, believed all the guilt to have
been on her side In the new field he
~as welcomed by his friends. He was
courted, fiattered, praised. The great
men OF the times came TO visit him in
his splendid house. They said: This
/ is 50 good a man that we shall elect
him to the senate" and they did.
On the other hand the girl waa
abandoned by everybody. Her few
poor friends, following public opinion,
sent her away, without hope, or a
word of advice, or money. or anything
a poor, weak being to encounter the
storms of life. The two things which
she ever virtue and labor--bad
been taken from her. Ignorant PEG
pie told her the rest; nay, pointed out
the road she must 60, in sorrow, in
misery, and in degradation. What
could sh- dol She knew 10 better
She went and hid herself in distant
city
Now that she has been identified
with many others of similar history,
what does the city council of Portland
propose to do about it, Rectify the
injusticel Oh ! no. 1t proposes to
follow up this one sided man Justice to
the bitter end These fallen girls
must not look upon the face of the sun
except from behind window blind,
They shall not 90 out into the open
air to be seen by men, lest the poor fel-
lows be led into sim Mark the ,pwer,
on both sides here also. Thecouncilo on
its side has the law, or if not, it will
make one to suit it's purpose; it has
the police, the bench, the bar, the pull
pit and society. On the other side,
nothing, with the exception perhaps Of
that animal instinct which will turn
and resist the tormentor as far as pos
sible. / had almost forgotten. Sleep
Ing Justice is OH the other side.
L - worthy of note, in this connec-
tiou, that certain ministers of religion
( in Portland, have pettioncd the coun-
ell to enforce the ordinance alluded to
above. This is new and terrible
revelation. 1t is equivalent to saying
that the preaching and the prayers OF
these gentlemen have had no good eff
feet in the domain of the social evil,
and that they are obliged to call upon
the old means, punishment, in order
that they may see accomplished what
the people pay them to perform the
cultivation of morality. This was d
most unwise action. 1t will prove to
the people as plainly as if it were writ
ten on the sky, the worthlessness Of
such churchmen in the conversion of
sinners. 1t will prove that they do
not possess the Spirit of the Great
Master they pretend tofollow, because
He neve preached punishment but
mercy and reconciliation and forgive
ness.
Let me enunciatc postulatc. Man
IS active, woman is passive. And
again: Man is primary, woman is
secondary; therefore man irresponsible
woman is irresponsible. Hence, again
man should be the party against whom
the Jaw should be directed in otfenses
of the social evil, women should go free.
The number Of the demi-monde in
Portland only proves this, that the
multitude of men addicted to the
spread of the social evil in this city is
very great.
Reform men and "'onien will reform
! themselves. Wherever men are hon
orahle corresponding number of wo-
men will he honorable; where yer they
are degraded women will be degraded
likewise. They are in the same cate
CORY as the earth and the moon, the
mountain and the hillock, the great
wave and the little wave.
Gentlemen let us he just, for in no
other way can we hope to succeed in
anything we may undertake to perform
in connection with the welfare of the
people. - Oregonidn.