Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-23
The Voice of Women.
A PLEA AGAINST LICENSE.


EDS. REcoRD-UN1oN: Will you be KIND
enough TO allow wife and the mother OF
sons to express thought upon the discus
sion of the moral leprosy now agitating the
minds of those claiming to be the city pro-
tectors. and consider themselves worthy the
support of their peers. Will the license
protect the morality of the youths OF the
CITY? Will it not, on the contrary, prove
a stimulus to the young to wander IN for
hidden paths that lead down to perdi-
ton. This robing this evil with the man.
tie of responsibility by granting it munich
nal permission, does net change its le-
prous and heinous nature 1t is sup
posed the married men will not
lend their influence to this support.
They are the fathers of the youths of the
city, and whitley not arise as one man and
demand that their sons shall be protected
from the temptation produced from this
vice being rendered respectable? These
parties who have already disgraced the city
by rendering gambling dens respectable,
may well add this evil to the other. | ask,
and believe in the asking that / represent
four-tifths of the mothers in the city in
their opposition to this wrong that before
vote of the citizens of Sacramento, and the
mothers of the city be permitted to vote
upon this matter. And the ungentlemanly
fling that it is only the Christians and physi-
clans who oppose this terrible blot! If this
be true, in Gods name, | ask, what stain
is 1t on the non-professing citizen? |
know they will not accept such stigma.
A MOTHER, WHO BELONGS TO NO CREED
or Church, but believes in virtue.
WHY ADD GREATER DEPTHS?
EDS. RECORD UNION: An unfortunate dis
cussion has crept into the papers the past
week which should never have seen day
light, but it naturally was forced upon
them and the public by the introduction of
the license ordinance. Perhaps ten per
cent. of the unfortunate class aimed at by
the ordinance are what they are for bread
and butter; fifteen per cent, perhaps, for
the love of finery and idlenesS, while sew
enty-tivc per cent, perhaps, were Seduced
under the promise of marriage and then
discarded. The moment the woman COM
mits this objectionable sin she is thrust
out by relatives and friends, while the
author of her trouble, the man, is still wei
coined and admitted everywhere Should
the girl, sick and tired of her present mode
of life, desire to reform, there is not a
manufacturer or storekeeper that dares EN-
ploy her Should she seek employment as
a servant girl, who will take her? If she
should attempt TO visit theater, concert,
dance, or any place of amusement, she
would not be admitted if she was known.
and even if she should wish to go to
church-the one she attended in brighter
days--the minister or priest might not re-
fuse her admission, but the congregation
would sT1rnlX- nhinpt Tho Trirctooc
want to license and still further degrade
her. Mother" in last Saturday. RECORD
UNION, says they had better be dead
Oh, not SO, Are they human beings, with
human feelings, who once had mothers
care and a mothers love; were once, per-
haps; pets of the household, and now be-
yond hope and lost forever? Will our CITY
Trustees add to the depths of this woe by
granting public license? GRANDMOTHER.
AN EARNEST APPEAL.
EDS. REc0KD-CNIoN: viii you permit
q wife and mother" to speak a word in
reply to the item in Saturdays issue of
your paper, signed, "a husband and father"
and correct some errors? The opposition
TO the base ordinance proposed by a mem
Der of the City Trustees, to license dens of
is not mainly from ministers and
physicians. While they are radically
opposed to such a lowering of the standard !
Of virtue, and making respectable of the |
lowest of human vices, there are hundreds |
of other citizens, men of honor virtue and |
integrity, heads of families, who are striv-
ing to rear their sons and daughters in the |
pure atmosphere of home, who would ex-
deplore such a measure. OF the |
forty-seven who gave their opinions in |
RECoRD-UNIoN concerning the |
ordinance, one-half were posi- !
lively against it, and of this number only
six were ministers, and three physicians, |
the great majority being lawyers, mer-
chants, etc. If the preachers are not a |
safe guide in regard to moral questions, !
who, indeed can be?-perhaps the gentle |
man who wrote the article alluded to.
Who knows of young man being led I
into intemperance by taking a glass of lem |
made or soda water at a church festival ? |
doubt if any single case could be pro- |
iuced. In regard to raffies roulette tables |
and the like, Protestant Churches do not |
illow these things, and if others do their |
sins must not be charged upon the Church |
at large. Could women voice their senti- |
ments through the ballot box, and this |
question of licensing houses of disrepute |
were to be voted upon, we might enter an |
effectual protest against such base propo- |
sition. Let not our beautiful city permit |
this dark blot upon her character, which is
already furnished by the licensing of other
evils.
For the sake of our sons and daughters,
for the sake of society, for the sake of
everything pure and ennobling, let not this
be made with the viest of
vices \ WIFE AND MOTHER.