Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-10-23
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SELECTED BY NORRIS UNION.
Social Purity.

EdhOlm, superintendent OF the pres
of the Worlds w. G. Z. U.,a lad,
who is somewhat known in Minneap
oils, read an address on "The Traffic
in Girls" in which she made som'
rather startling statements. She sale
that the liquor traffic and the traffic
in girls were destroying girls at thu
rate of 100 every month-we presume
she means in Chicago, which is he
home. The average life of 23O,OO(
erring girls is five years; $4,000 o
of them are carried to the potter
field every year, and fresh girls must
be secured. More than half of these
girls are ensnared by lying advertise
ments, and over 100 American homes
are desolated every day by the re-
morseless traffic.
In the line of remedies Mrs. julia
Ward Howe sent paper in which she
advocated the same standard of NOR
atty for both sexes, and declared that
the legal profession must join the
medical and clerical professions which
have come to believe in one standard.
"The relations of SEX" she added,
'sare either the crown of society or its
ruin. Let the romance of our youths
look forward to married life on a plan
of mutual dignity and equality"
Mrs. Dora Webb, superintendent
of the social purity department of the
Ohio w. G. T. u, said that the houses
of ill-fame in large cities are banded
together Tor mutual protection and
are protected through political infu-
ence. Her remedy is woman suffrage.
She declared that if women had the
right to vote the vexed question
would soon be settled.
Miss Frances E. Willard, who has
recently become bicycle enthusiast,
advocated the bicycle as strong ally
of personal purity. She said that in
Chicago saloon keepers, tobaccoists
and managers of houses of amuse-
ment were curslng the bicycle be-
cause young men go riding on it in
the country. She saw good sign in
the wider companionship of men and
women; the fact that Al colleges and
universities admit, and that only Al
exclude women. is also a good sign
In England the boys and girls join in
the athlete sports, and she remarked
incidently that English women arel
ahead of American women in athletic
development.
Such discussions as this cannot fail
to do great good. The subject is a
delicate one, but it is one that mustl
be met and grappled with if society ISL
to be saved. Agitation along politi-
cal lines will accomplish something,
but after all the most effective rem
edy is that suggested by Mrs. Howe,
viz: the incubation and enforcement
of the same standards for men and
women. The laws should be shaped
to this end, but above all social infu-
ences should be brought to bear.
Ostracism should be visited as com
pletelY and uniformly upon the elring
boy or man as upon the erring girl.
If this were done self-restraint would
be developed and the passions more
curbed. We do not sup
pose that an ideal condition of social
purity will ever be attained this side
of the millennium, but progress may
be constantly made towards higher
standard. Minneapolis Tribune.
In speaking of licensing saloons,
Jhurlow Weed Brown says: "In all
hell there is nothing SO damnably
as this system of fnan-
,iering on earth, and in a christian
land"
The American steamship line has it ,
IS an invariable rule that no captain ,
,r other officer, sailor or other en- n
ployee shall use Intoxicating liquors
IS drink. A famous captain on one
If its great lines recently said to one
If our readers: Many time has
glass of whiskey wrecked a ship
Young People at work.
After fierce conflict the anti-ciga- !
ct bill passed the California legisla-
ure. '"There are a million dollars at |
take in the passage of the bilp' said /
me defender of the cigarette. "There a
re million boys at stake ALSO" said !
Mrs. Purvis, the w. G. T. U. represen-
alive, though threatened with re-
noyal from the floor of the house.