The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-05-11

ever been carried out, ana. In every case
they have failed TO do what was pre-
tended could DO done by their promoters
In Spain CASTILLO 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were repealed in 1888.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 1000 and
5000 women OF III repute, and yet we
are told that in the city there are 100000
such women.
THE ONE POSSIBLE SOLUTION.
What docs regulation amount to2
Paris is the most corrupt city socially in
the world. Contagious diseases are more
prevalent in Paris than any city in the
world. What has regulation done for
Paris2 1t has simply debauched the pub
lie conscience and taught the young
manhood cf France that prostitution is
necessary evil; that the state recog-
nizes it, and that therefore indulgence is
question of TASTE But men say that 1t
is impossible TO suppress the evil; that it
has always failed where tried. Is this
true? Where has it failed2 Where has
it ever been tried? We have not yet
emerged from the primitive barbarism
that would seek to degrade woman by
the process of regulation. We have never
failed because we have never tried. Man
has never really risen to the position of
meeting woman upon an equal ground.
Charles Darwin, the great scientist, tells
us that man is the only animal in which
the male is ever unilind to the female
1t was O subtle Frenchman who said. il
view Of the long subjugation of women,
"The virtue of woman is the wittiest in
vention of man."
This is the opinion, know, of certain
leaders of thought in the old world, but
are not better things to be expected Of
American manhood We have been the
founders of tho world in leading the race
to the heights Of liberty and of truth
Shall we crawl back to the sewers of the
dark cities of the old world to find the
ways of life? Let American manhood
look to higher and diviner ideal. Well
has Miss Willard said on this point again:
"The manhood Of America is the noblest
and most masterful on earth because it
has mastery of itself. Our everyday re
ligion has 80 developed women and re.
fined men that men think of us with re.
spect and reverence" Let American
manhood not crawl to the depth of in
fanny Of the European ideal, which de-
grades woman TO the level of brute
who may be deprived of her person, of
her rights, of her life to feed the lust of
man.
There is only one possible solution for
this question, and that is suppression,
and it should be wrought in two ways
legally and persuasively. Our laws should
enforce q single standard OF truth and
purity. The house of the strange woman
should be suppressed as an institution
1t should be made impossible for any
woman to earn her bread by the sale of
her person. Certainly it should be made
impossible for her to establish a CONNER
ctil enterprise in which virtue is the
commodity of barter and sale. Prosti-
tuition should be suppressed by law, and
it should be crime punishable both for
the woman and the man. The woman
who is found the inmate of such house
should not only be punished and driven
out, but the man who builds it should
suffer precisely the same penalty. When
it is made impossible for woman to earn
her living by this process of shame, the
temptation to hundreds of the lazy, and
the worthless, and the vain, and the ig-
norant to enter such q life will be re-
moved.
This force should not be resorted to in
any harsh way, but it should be done
firmly and determinedly. In addition to
this there should be the arousing of the
Christian world to the awful obligation
of carrying the gospel of Jesus Christ to
these women. Mr.. Moody has shown in
his great meetings that these abandoned
women still have hearts that can be
touched and reached; that they can be
saved. Again and again those who have
gone down into the depths with the mes
sage Of love and forgiveness in Christ
have rejoiced In the restored life.
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