Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-17
The DemOralizing Tendency of RadI

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The Cincinnati Gazette gives terrible
picture of the decayed virtue and moral
ity of Cincinnati in the following recital
of the progress of the people TO crime
and RIGHTEOUSNESS
s"That which many people call liberty
is often license, and those who boast
ingly claim to be the advocates of per-
sonal liberty and progress are frequently
the advocates, indirectly, of crime and
the enemies of society. No intelligent
person can sit down aud calmly review
the history of Cincinnati for thirty years
without reaching this conclueions and
no one can study this history from the
standpoint of society without a feeling
of real alarm. Society in Cincinnati to-
day is not what it was five, ten, twenty
or thirty wears ago. In all that time the
standard of morals has been on the down
grade, until now it is conceded by per-
sons whose opinions are entitled to weight
that this is one of the worst, If not the
worst, city in the whole country in which
to train a family. And il the rising
generation is to be corrupted; if the
morals of boys and girls are to be broken
down, their self respect destroyed. and
their ideas of chastity blunted, what is
to be expected from the next and the
next2 Can the foundation of society
be undermined without endangering the
whole structure? Is not the hcentious-
ness which pervades the atmosphere
making its way into households, leaven-
ing the whole lump3 Have the parents
who fall into line with this so-called cry
Of liberty no regard for their own chill
dren? Are they willing that their
daughters shall become prostitutes and
their sons libertines? Are they willing
that nets shall be temptingly spread to
attract their feet into dens of vice?
These are questions that ought to be
considered, and no conscientious parent
should rest satisfied until able to answer
them"
Well, Cincinnati is Radical to the core,
and the experience of the country proves
that where Radicalism prevails the stan
dard of morals is low. Indeed, it could
not be otherwise when the apostles of
that faith are such notorious examples
of infdelity, RIGHTEOUSNESS and hypoc-
racy as IngerSoll, Beecher and Conkling.
Another illustration of this fact is to
be found in the depraved condition of
public morals in Maine as stated by
Judge Goddard of that State in COM
munication to the Portland Press The
Judge says
SIN 1851 the population of the State
was 587, $50, and IN 1880 it was GAO, 945,
an increase in Twenty-Five years of only
IA per cent. In that time, however,
murders increased 425 per cent; man
slayers, 400 per cent; murderous as
saults, 1873 per cent; arson, 1876 per
cent. rape, 800 per cent. attempts to
rape, 500 per cent. In 1851 divorce was
hardly known in Maine, and in 1878
there were ATS divorces granted, or one
couple out of every 679 in the State.
Suicide and insanity have also largely
increased, and youthful criminals have
increased in number to an alarming ex-
tent"
Judge Goddard attributes this startling
increase of crime in his State to the
adoption of the prohibltory liquor laws,
now in force there, when in truth it is
due to the demoralizing effect of Radi-
calism.