Connecticut western news., 1893-05-11

| miracle that illumines life, that makes poverty of riches, and sorrow joy, and suffering privilege, is this mystery of love. Prostitution is the negation of this dream of humanity. It is to stab to the heart the faith of the race. It means more. In doing this, of necessity those who thus sin must drag down in the mire the name of home and of moth CT and all that clusters round this holy altar. Here rests the very foundation of human civilization. The state is built upon the monogamic group of society," man and woman. The nation is built not upon the individual, but on this so- cial unity. All law rests, in it's last analysis, upon this foundation. All na- tional and international law must be traced back in it's origin to this primal ordinance of God.
 The home is the fountain of universal blessing from whose center radiates the divine influences that make national life possibility. It is refuge, a haven, in which man accumulates strength to battle with the clements, to fulfill in- deed the dreams of his heart, to be pa- triot, to be true, to be noble. It is the little kingdom of God on earth that is the prophecy of the kingdom that is to come and rule the earth supreme. The house of prostitution is threat against the very foundation of home and home life. It is the denial of the right of motherhood and fatherhood.
 The house of prostitution is the home of the gambler. Thousands of profes- sional gamblers have fallen to the dis graceful depths of being willing to be supported by these women. So intimate is the connection between the brothel
 and the gambling hell that it may be
 said that they are inseparable. Every house of prostitution is a saloon of the lowest order, where the meanest drinks are served at the highest possible price The fool who drinks is willing to pay There are constant and chronic viola tions of every excise law ever put on the
 statute book. Infanticide, murder, theft. forgery and every crime on the cata logue of criminality is laid daily at her door. When such are the direct and ap- proximate results of such an evil, how is it possible for the Christian world, how is it possible for the humanitarian, to re- main silent? What are the remedies pro- posed for this terrible evil? There are two.
 REMEDIES PROPOSED.
 First-Regulation so called. Is this possibility? Is it a practical principle worthy of moments serious thought? Our superintendent of police has recent ly informed us that it is the only solu-
 ton of the evil, and police authorities from time to time have given us the same instruction. Regulation, so called, whether in the form of the European h- cense system or legalization, is an infamy that will never be tolerated on Anglo Saxon soil and for the very patent req sons
 (a) Such a system means the slavery and degradation of womanhood. It
 means the denial of her individuality, of her right to life. It means a return to barbarism. It means the negation of her personality before the common law.
 It means the stamping out of the last hope by which her womanhood may be reached and saved. And let it be ob-
 served that this proposition has never
 emanated from 8 human being who bore the image of woman. It has ever come from two sources and only two-namely,
 the icentious scoundrels of the male sex and officers Of the law who desired to profit by the experiment. The woman hood that could submit to this infamy of license and suspicion and regulation falls simply to the level of the poor wife
 of the Cossack of Russia who kneeIs to
 be beaten by her brutal husband for sus-
 picion of the act of which he is daily guilty.
 (b) Such solution would only aggra-
 vate the evil by emphasizing its cause
 namely, dual standard of right. The
 secret of the curse today is that there
 are two codes of morals-one for women,
 another for men. Any proposition to
 regulate this vice is a proposition to
 erect dual standard of right, of truth.
 It proclaims the monstrous lie that ip-
 dulgence in vice is necessity for man.
 Prostitution is not weakness-it is
 crime.
 Co Therefore the state cannot legalize
 crime without committing suicide. The
 state has no more right to recognize
 prostitution as necessary evil than 1t
 has the right to recognize stealing as
 necessary evil. Stealing will doubtless
 never be totally suppressed. Is it sane,
 therefore, to say that because we cannot totally suppress it we must regulate it? (d) No system of regulation has ever
 checked the evils of prostitution, but has
 only served to increase them and aggra-
 vate them. This is the testimony incon- trovertible from every experiment where it has been tried. The result has been
 not the decrease of disease, but the in-
 crease of disease. It has not diminished the evil, but increased it in the number
 of those who fall victims. The number of evil women has increased; the num- Der of young men debauched has in-
 creased. A wider harvest of death has always been reaped. The city of Colmar, Ga., has recently abolished the system of regulation, having pronounced it dismal failure. The mayor of Colmar de- clares that the morals of the town have steadily improved from that day. All
 the laws on the subject of regulation have been swept from the statute book of England as a disgrace to the nation. In Russia the system has
 been pronounced 8 failure. In Aus tria it has been pronounced 8 failure. None of its professions has ever been carried out, and in every case they have failsd to do what was pre-
 tended could be done by their promoters.
 In Spain Castello states that the means
 for regulation are utterly imperfect; that
 the visitation provided in law is inef-
 ficient and the treatment in hospitals
 equally so. In Germany we have the
 same story of failure in her great cities.
 In Italy the laws regulating prostitution
 were repealed in 1888. In 1880 the laws
 of regulation were abolished in Bern,
 Switzerland, and in Christiania, Norway.
 Denmark swept the laws from her stat
 ute books in 1880. In France the failure has been most dismal of all The city of Paris has registered between 1, 900 and