Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-20
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
Resolutions Of the Recent Congress at
the Hague.

Resolutions Of the Recent Congress N
| the Hague.
The Congress of the British and Continental
Federation for the Abolition of State Regula-
ton of Vice, held at the Hague, was brought to
close Saturday, when the following resolu-
tons were adopted
| 1. The congress demands that in every nation
in dealing with all questions arising from the
mutual relations of men and women, the law,
if it speaks at ALL shall declare itself on the side
of equal morality and equal Justice between the
| two sexes
| Q. The congress condemns the compulsory
examination of the person as practiced under
the system of the state regulation of vice
| whether applied to men or women. as a gross
violation of personal Individual right, an out
rage on the best instincts of civilization, and,
| whenever reduced to an administrative system, a
| hygienic failure.
| g. The congress also condemns all official re-
| cognition of prostitution of trade and an
official recognition and liberation of houses Or
ganized for the purpose OF sexual vice.
4. The congress condemns the system Of Civ
| ing to the police. or to any administrative BODY.
any discretionary or exceptional power in rela-
| ton to public morality, and declares that this
subject ought to be governed by the common
| law.
s. Wherever the provisions of national law are
not already sufficient to enforce the prohibition
of organized traffic in vice. thus striking at the
| prOcurer and those on whose behalf the pro-
curer acts, this congress demands that they shall
| be completed so as to secure that object.
6. Considering the new and very remarkable
proofs of the absolute failure and even the dan
gers of state regulation of vice for the purpose
| of protecting the public health, which have ac-
cumulated during the last few years. consider
! ing. moreover, the declarations of MANY of the
chief specialist scientific authorities explaining
the scientific reasons which make it Impossible
| for any system of examination to render prosti-
tuition anything else than dangerous to the pub
| lie health, the hygenic section of the congress
declares that it confirms the resolutions adopted
| at the previous congresses at Geneva and Ge-
| nOa, and absolutely condemns the system of reg
| ulatiOn as preventative measure for avoiding
the diseases which spring from vice.
A further resolution was carried expressing
the hope that the present Dutch government
would carry out the resolution of it's predeces-
sors and initiate full international inquiry into
the means Of preventing the traffic in women
and children, and stating the conviction that it
| is necessary that any commission conducting
such an inquiry. in order to lead to satisfactory
results and meet the legitimate demands of pub
lie opinion, should contain persons other than
officials, and especially those who have studied
the question from the point of view of the fed
Grafton. The sceances were concluded by an
address from the president, M. de Laveleye, who
| reviewed the work of the week.
All GHC eSCuiIS idi &c ltCepGiOu was gwen Dy
Count Hogendory, at which some speeches were
made, and the burgomeister expressed his
grateful thanks to the federation for having
held the congress at the Hague. He was en-
tirefy convinced of the principles of the fedora
ton, and expressed the belief that the present
congress would lead to good results, both at the
Hague and throughout Holland in general.
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Copper a Cholera Preventive.
The subject of the efficacy of the salts of cop
per in wardng off the attack of cholera is re-
ceiving renewed attention on the part of physi-
clans and physiologfsts In recent address
delivered before the French Academy of
Sciences, NJ Burg maintained that numberless
observations made during the cholera ravages
IN Europe, and subsequently elsewhere, and
verified by Swans as well as by the members
OF the medical profession, incOntestably prove
that such individuals as are exposed. whether
by reason of their profession or by their resi-
dence in or proximity to the seat of copper in
dustries to daily cupric impregnation, enjoy
immunity from cholera visitatiOns directly pro-
pOrtional to the quantity of this impregnation,
and that exceptions to this law of immunity are
no more numerous than the exceptional cases
winch present themselves in variOla after vac
cinatlon The results here stated are, it is
GAINED, IN strict conformity with the investiga-
lions lately conducted by NJ. Paul Bert in the
laboratory OF the SCrbonne, which seem to prove
that the salts of copper possess greater antisep-
TIC properties than any other substance that
might be employed by the human subject with
out danger. The observations of NJ Burg an
pear to be confirmed by statistics received from
several of the more prominent seats of copper
industries in Great britain