Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16
This part is omitted, aud the re-
maiDder of Mrs. Towards COM
municatiOn is as follows.

This part is omitted ,aud the re-
of Mrs. Towards COM
municatiOn is as follows.
Now, in view of the fact that
the protests of which this ordi-
nance was the outgrowth, were
made principally in the interest
of Atlanta's wives and daughters,
who are "dearer and more pre-
ciOus" to the men of that city
"than all the fallen women in the
universe" would it not be well
for the City Council Tin order to
leave in the public mind no doubt
that Atlanta is of purer eyes than
to behold eviD to pass some such
ordinance as the following, anex-
ing suitable penalties for violation
thereof? From and after the pas,
sage of this ordinance it shall be
unlawful for any person or per-
sons in this city to maintain any
house or place where persons are
received for the purposes of pros
titution without having first OBJ
tanned the consent of the mothers,
wives and daughters OF this city.
And all applications to the said
mothers wives and daughters for
permission to maintain such
house or place for such purpose
must plainly and distinctly show
the particular locality where the
same. is desired and what class of
men are to be admitted to the
same.
That south Atlantians are too
stainless to dwell on the same
street with women who may be
trying to turn from their sins,
will surely recommend that small
corner of the cosmos, to the virtue
loving everywhere; and if angelic
hosts themselves do not shortly
quit their present habitations and
sue for access to their most IA
vored locality we shall be surprised
indeed.
Atlanta's citi zens, it seems, are
willing that S o doubtful expe-
riment' should be tried provided
the refuge is far removed from
such surroundings as would en-
courage the inmates to "a better
life. If erected, the reformatory
must be safely cornered in some
'loafng place where the Curl
GUS shall find opportunity for
alluring these unfortunates to their
former ways. If every inmate Of
reformatory had come to de-
struction through innate deprav-
ity such a fact would not justify
the pharisaical nicely of Lloyd and
Pryor streets; but Atlanta's sta
ton house reports show almost
daily that the inmates of disrepu-
table houses represent varying
degrees of guilt, while in many
cases it is proved that absolute in
nocence has been entrapped. The
almost uniform rearing of girls
on the principle that ignorance
insures innocence, should of itsell
be sufficient to explain the pres
ence of many a woman in such
an abode. A boy is SO reared
that long before he has attained
manhood he knows himself, and
hence is equipped for mingling
with his fellows. "FOrewarned i;
forearmed." There is therefore lit.
tie excuse for his fall from virtue
But how is it with the women,
From veriest babyhood her pa
rents studiously guard from al
that would unfold to her mind, by
a natural and wholesome process
the laws of her own being, and
probably she first learns then
through temptation. A stranger
to herself, she is easy prey to the
designer. 1t would seem that So
ciety should be tender to the
straying of those who, being
trained to run with lambs only
have been turned out among
wolves; but the verdict of a pew
renting population is ''Stone the
woman; let the man go free
The reputabl dare her to dwell
among them. refuse to give hel
honorable employment, and ther
bid her be virtuous. The path o
her betrayer is unimpeded from the
bagnio to the White House. l.
this morals? Has the text 'Ht
that is without sin among you
let him first cast stone at her.
been omitted from the Gospels O
south Atlanta's church-goers.
Alas for the human hearts OIL
which these men and womer
climb to mount their self con.
structed predestal and pose al
purist. Do they know that a lit
tie Chinese girl of twelve year.
recently took her life in San Fran
cisco to escape being forcibly re
turned to a cuddy with iron
barred windows where the fees o
the men who nightly frequenteC
the place formed the income o
her captor? She was but one o
the twelve hundred women thus
enslaved in San Francisco VIII,
are not so fortunate as to effect al
escape and come into the possession
of a penknife with which to eno
their wretched existence. Nor i,
it only to Cinnamon that Ameri-
can municipalities vouchsafe pro
lection in the practice of sucf
atrocity. An equally horribl,
slavery of American women wa:
exposed in Wisconsin while Mr.
Rush was governor.
Many of the inmates were
found to be perfectly virtuou.
women who had. been entragped
through fair seeming advertise
ments and other means.
A woman who was seen to es-