The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-22

Another objection IL, that men and
women will not be restrained and that
/ such prohibition would produce indiscrim-
mate sexual commerce, with increased in
stead OF diminished evils. IL does not fol-
low at ALL The law making power IL am-
PIE Go afford protection on every side. IL
can regulate the social evil No we'll as IL
can any other evil. 10 cannot make peo-
/ pie auy more perfect than the Almighty
has done, but IL can limit and restrain 20
a ceftainextent In the preservation OF Or
I der and morals and as TO the social evils
With others, IL can provide for license and
regulate women and houses IA well aa IL
can for liquor and houses. IL can estab-
/ lish board OF inspection and health and
require cleanliness and egDmission 10
authority MS we'll "a IL can for diseased
provisions, contagious diseases, and dam
eerous illuminants, oils and explosives,
/ the use OF firearms. and against the im-
proper ueo and spread OF fire. 10 can re-
quirc them TO be- kept orderly and pro.
hibit indulgence elsewhere, ~ we'll as II
can with saloons and the sale of drugs,
narcotics and poisona and other dangerous
compounds, aud can limit the hours dur
ing which they may be kept open, as IL
does Ia other cases where that IN deemed
important. For people who will have
! liquor and poisonous drugs, aud other
dangerous compounds II already provides,
md IL can make like provisions IN any
other respect where evils affect or may AZ
feet tho public II can as rightly, and
much more properly and wisely do IL,
than II can provide for a public market
with its stalls, rules, inspection and police
supervision and market master, compel
dealers 10 occupy 10, pay for license, and
prohibit the transaction OF market bus
mess anywhere else, under penalties and
punishment II can imprison and per
petually Isolate all who continue 10 violate
is prohibitions, and put IL beyond their
power 20 repeat Olienses. IL can limit ~
90 numbers and ~ TO times and occasions
for irequenting, rs we'll as IL can for saloon
and market days and hours. IL already
declares adultery, fornication and scduc-
ton, and keeping n house OF Ill fame and
frequenting one, and associating with
lewd persons crimes, 10 can provide for
and regulate places where and conditions
under which board OF health and police
surveillance can keep these evils i'm con-
slant check and reduce them 20 the mini
mum that IL Is possible under human reg
ulations and prevent indiscriminate com
merce. The lack of this board OF health
and police surveillance. as part OF IA IL
eenge system, Is the reason former at
tempts 10 license the social evil have
failed. IL has never been tried anywhere
with such boards an fixed part OF "A
license system.
1T seems 10 me that there is moral
obliquity that affects the entire mass OF
political, social aud religious leaders and
teachers on the subject here being consid-
cred. When we Analyze the views and
action throughout, the glaring inconsist-
ency and unreasonableness that seems To
fiji them has no parallel in any other
matter seriously affecting individual and
the public welfare. Among the first ia
a false modesty that is shocked by any al
lusions to the most evident and dcbasing
facts that stare everybody in the face on
al sides; that rub against everybody at
every turn; that legislators, reformers and
clcrgymen are contendng with incessant-
ly While the powers OF human inven-
ton are making exhaustive Ell
forts to provide for the safety
and betterment of humanity in
oil directions, all eyes seem closed
or blinded TO the avenues that admit the
most serious dangers to it. They can see
that the would-be pharmacist, physician
and accoucheur finds his way barred until
he can show that he is qualified to deal
with dangerous compounds, and with
human health and life. They can see
that the man who would become a soldier
and learn the art of war, learn how TO
kill and main people and attack and de-
stroy property in war, whether he be
a soldier or footpad, finds entrance to the
rank barred until q government official
strips him, examines him as TO bodily per-
lection and health, and next as to mental
ability and moral perception to learn the
manual of arms. the routine OF discipline
and service, obedience to regulations and
orders, and subordlnation TO superiors. III
he is found competent he can gain admis-
sion for only five years, and during that
time the government must contract to
keep him. II the same kind of a
man, or any man, wants to enter the
matrimonial ranks, the doors are wide
open. To protect itself against a bad
soldier, or one it may have to keep in
prison or hospital, for only fiye years at
the most, the government requires and
exercises every precaution. But the re-
cruit in the matrimonial ranks may serve
for life. and his influence extend to future
generations, and he may fill hospital or
prison with his offspring. Surely 10 know
that one is qualified TO beget and care for
human beings fit to live, is as important
az to know how TO kill them. But ii is
immOdest to present this last view.
"The church devotes its time and ener-
gies TO prove that every human body pos
sesses an immortal spiritual body, that is
liable TO future torture unless it be made
perfect in morals and truth, and that
must be done while it remains within its
mortal shell. 1t pleads and raves for
prohibition of liquors and tobacco, for
forced observance of Sunday, for forced
attendance on schools, for recognition of
God, Christ and the protestant religion in
the civil constitutions, and for sundry
other restraints and commands with
penalties, in order to save these imperiled
souls. Reformers 60 about the land de-
vising ways and means to educate, civilize,
provide for and elevate the ignorant, the
degraded, the poverty stricken that per-
wade every plane of human action, and
wander in and out among the people
everywhere. And yet these, with general
society added, hold up their hands before
their faces in horror. if some honest soul
who has truth for guide. calls to them
TO look, and points them 10 the source
of the evils they are battling with and
tells them they are responsible for it all,
for the law is only their united will in
statutory phraseology. That it is the re-
suit of their voluntary blindness and false
conception OF civil. moral and religious
duties. That they are seeking to deal
with evil conditions alone, instead of the
causes of them, and while trying to miti-
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