Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-05-17

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 eva 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 10000,
while other cities will be found to main
tain similar proportions. some greater,
come less. 1t is said and ON the best au-
thority that the city of Washington. the
capital of the nation, shows 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 1t certainly rests at their
door.
Third-It 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-
tice was given to the results of prostitu-
ton, and he said that every physician of
large practice could bear practically the
same testimony. Dr. Currier declares,
and bases his declaration upon the sta
tistics gathered from the outdoor poor
department for the city of New York,
that there are from 5000 to 1000 cases
of contagious disease from this cause
which are annually treated in the dis
pensary. He says that there are as many
more cases in private practice.
He declares that it is safe to say that
there are 10000 women in New York
city who are each day in a condition to
propagate contagious diseases. Add to
these 10000 women 10000 men, and be-
hold the army of death sowing the seeds
of a corrupt body, damning unborn gem
erations to curse the earth. Each city in
America will show a like proportion of
disease and of consequent debauchery of
the physical life of the people. 1t is no
wonder that manhood declines, and that
the people of the cities are not able to
maintain themselves in the contest with
the Drawn and fire of the rural laborers
1t utterly drags down and destroys not
simply the body but the soul of the VIC
tim. This sin is violation of the di-
vinest thought given to the human race
love. 1t is Dissertation, with unclean
hand, with impure purposes, of the holy
of holes of the race. The climax Of
human experience is the hour of two
pure hearts discovering each other. The
supreme mystery of nature is the mys-
terry of love. The one high and holy
miracle that illumines life, that makes
poverty of riches, and sorrow a joy, and
suffering a privilege, is this mystery OF
love. Prostitution is the negation of
this dream of humanity. 1t is to stab
to the heart the faith of the race. 1t
means more. In doing this, of necessity
those who thus sin must drag down in
the mire the name of home and of moth
er 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 its last
analysis, upon this foundation. All ma
tional and international law must be
traced back in its origin to this primal
ordinance of God.
The home is the fountain of universal
blessing from whose center radiates the
divine influences that make a national
life possibility. 1t is a refuge, haven,
in which man accumulates strength to
battle with the elements, to fulfill in
deed the dreams of his heart, to be a pa
triot, to be true, TO be noble. 1t 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. 1t is the denial of the right of
motherhood and fatherhood.
The house Of prostitution is the home
of the gambler. Thousands of profess
sional gamblers have fallen to the dis
graceful depths of being willing to be
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
tons of every excise law ever put on the
statute book. Infanticide, murder, theft.
forgery and every crime on the cata
Iogue of criminality is laid daily at her
door When such are the direct and APP
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.
Participation, so called. Is this
Is it a practical principle |