The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-11

80. PROSTITUTION. In the cities they
are r1,asssssi. and the aggregate resnl,s
from these causes ma Se up It's i'0' ''"'e
total
There are s--ures Of women VINO eilsN'
this life because they are vicious ~ u's'
u.,s;tion. because they are lazy ana i1iio-
rant and l,scauss they prefer. from N''i4''s
AMI ssIGshness. 4 life of coarse luxury 10
| a life Of honest toll \ large per cent
Iar,.e- than one would wish who believes
in th. best there IS in man. VIII Dc iunA"
in this class And yet 10 many an non
est working girl n our great cities there
comes a.,sir2 and again the unspeaSaCie.
horrible alternative. which rises and wiii
not down 1T the bidding. either 10 Deg 10
steal. 10 starye. to commit suicide or 10
sell her body. This is the sad story when
fine CITY writes in these modern days Tor
the lover Of the race 70 read.
ITS EgAzES BoLpNESs-
second-The house of the strange wo-
man has become in the modern city IN
established institution. 1t has become
a commercial enterprise. 1t has Its law
of supply and demand. and the couse-
queut corruption of the life OF the PEG
ple is something incomprehensib!e 10
those who have not seriously studle4 II,
A group Of earnest Christian women,
IMPRESSED with this horrible fact and si
| its growing reality. went a few years
ago to the editor of great newspaper in
London and laid before him the facts OF
this social evil in his great city. AT first
he booted the idea. 1t seemed to him
monsirosity impossible in the English
world They insisted upon its truth. He
decided to investigate it for himself; he
did investigate it The result was that
he hurled that immortal thunderbolt
into modern society printed III the Pail
Mall Gazette, entitled The Maiden Trib
ute to Modern Babylon"
An explosion followed the hurting Of
that bomb which shook the world. Phar-
isees and hypocrites succeeded in putting
Mr.. Stead into prison for his bold as
sault, but the great and the noble in the
English world rallied in the hour of trial
to his support, and the reaction swept
from the statute books of England every
disgraceful law that bound woman with
the chains of a slave through the past
generation. The report of Mr.. Stead
was investigated by men of the highest
character, and every statement and every
allegation was found to be substantially
true.
If the truth were known today in the
great cities Of America, the story written
by Mr. Stead could be rewritten here
with equal force and unanswerable log
ic. So great is this power as an institu-
ton that it lays hold of society in our
city on every side The cabmen, for in
stance, who rule certain class Of pas
senger traffic, are almost every one in
the employ of these houses of i'll fame,
and beneath the seats of their cab cush-
ions are kept the cards of direction to
the various establishments. A sailor
cannot enter the port Of New York with
out receiving letters inviting him to
these brothels high and low. Even some
of our own great newspapers print in
their personal columns with marvellous
effrontery, from Sunday to Sunday, the
advertisements of these infamous estab-
lishments. Nearly every saloon in the
city of New York and in all our great
cities has private parlors in which
women Of loose character are found,
and it is scarcely possible for a man to
enter a saloon without coming in con-
tact with this underworld of social vice.
Every gambling establishment in the
city is the vestibule to the house of i'll
fame.
Not only is this true. but there are
vast districts of our cities through which
it is impossible for a man, young or old,
to pass at night without being addressed
and solicited by woman A young
woman newspaper reporter recently I'M
dertook the experiment Of walking the
streets of New York through the entire
night to see what adventure might be-
fall woman unaccompanied. She wrote
her experience for one of the daily news
papers. In it she declared that she was
not addressed or solicited by any man
at any hour Of the night or on any street,
and she passed through some Of the most
unfreQuented and dangerous She gave
it as her opinion that woman who went
about her business could go and come
through the streets Of the city at any
time unmOlested. But dare to say to
this young woman that she will meet an
unpleasant revelation if she will array
herself liz masculine attire and walk the
streets of the city. 1t will be scarcely
possible for her to report accurately ev-
cry incident that will occur.
The boidest of these spirits that con-
duct the commercial transactions In
this underworld often accumulate great
power and wealth. The great masses
who feed their Golfers go down in disease
and despair and death The horrible
number Of those who are TINS given to
the corruption of the youth ard the
manhood and the homes of the nation
! something appalling. As the modern
city grows in numbers this evil grows
apace, and even in higher ratio than the
arithmetical proportion.
1t is said by those who have studied
the situation most carefully that in the
city of Paris there are 100000 women
given to this evil life. There certainly
are not less than $4,000 in the city Of
New York, and the lowest estimate for
Chicago places the number at &c, 1000.
while other cities will be found to main
tam similar proportions, some greater,
some less. 1t is said and on the best au-
thority that the city of Washington, the
capital of the nation, shows a higher
Percentage of disreputable women than
any city in America. And this is prob
lem which the politicians who inhabit
the city should not be slow in confessing
and solving. It certainly rests at their
door,
THRIFT can but threaten the life of
society because of the terrible nature of
this evil The debauchery of the BODY
Is something whose horrors surpass be-
lief save to those who come in daily con-
tact with the facts in the great medical
world. A practicing physician told me
that large proportion of his daily prac-
tee was given to the results of prostitu-
ton, and he said that every physician of
large practice could bear practically the