The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-24
What Shall We Do With ThemP

Tnis question arose in my mind after
reading Governor Hogg's ve,e on
licensing 'dlsordesly houses" | ad,
miFe and appreciate the governors
effort to stamp out this social evil Blu,
before an evil can be eradlca,ed, the e
must DO compensating good, to effect
It. What shah this good be? Tbat
Is the question to be consd red. Sup
pose the unfortunate inmates OF those
houses across the San Pedro are turned
adriit, what will become Of theme Will
they be helped on the road to virtue,
or will we be beneftteay Not much
1t some whole souled, good womau
should take one of those women into
her family, in any capacity, her dear
five hundred friends would "cut her
dead y without any ceremony. II
those poor fallen women caorot earn
living by their soul. debasing methods,
how will they livee The question
stsres US in the face aud We have
to meet it,or face Il condition of airs
far worse. So many good Omissions
rush to hear Sam jones and all the
travelling evangelists; why don't they
put their love tor God and man into
practical hape and build reforma
tory and home for Just such
women as these2 1t could
very easily be made self supporting.
What is woman that she should con
denim her sister woman to infamy and
shame, to want and beggary? When
by exercising just little of the re-
igion they preach they might he'll
those poor abandoned girls to better
life. We don't need any of the DR..
Palkhurst sly lie of reformers, who
after all enter those abodes, and under
guise of doing good act, can play
leap frog with the girls, drink beer
and have r coed time generally, like
any other sinner. There are very few
Of those gitls, who, if they consul
their own hearts and womauhood, bu
what would gladly turn backward from
their life of shame, but they know
societys ban is upon them; they can
not rise, and SO they sink deeper ant
deeper into shame, till pauper'
grave hides life, that under dtferen
training might have been a
honor to womsukind. We hav
many noble, wealthy women i
our city why cannot they band them
selves together, and 20 out anon
our citizens, and solicit money to rer
or build reformatory for fallen VIC
men? Men ought certainly TO b
willing to undo the wrongs they hav
&C mmitted, and when the botrayer an
the liber,ine walks, with erect hea'
among his fellow men, he ought to |
willing towards building home fl
his victims. This social evil cries
heaven for vengeance, and some ds
it will be righted; men and wome
will be put Oh the same social stanc
ing. A man will be required to /
pure, good and virtuous. or lose cas-,
II as the woman does, and not as it no
stands, when the betrayer is hunk
boy, ard brsgs around in saloons {
the girls he had betrayed, while h
poor victim hides her shame
some home among the on
casts, where she dcscends ste
bv steep, into deeper and more so,
debasing shame. do hope this ma
ter will be stirred up, until somethin
is done to oblitera,e, and alleviate tb
evil that dwells among US. reall
hope Governor Hogg's orders WI
be enforced, we will then see, no
mech love of God and how much IT
lig on Sam Jones deposited in tn
hearts of his many hearers, viii
preaching out his "thuuders' in tn
city. | hope my readers will civ
this matter serious thought, and wax
up to the necessities Of the hour, tn,
purifying and cleansing our fair CT,
, from this foul blot on its honore
name. MAGNOLIA,
In the San Antonio Light.
Notice. COiOPed Voters.