Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-02
ANOTHER SOCIAL PROBLEM.

ANOTHER SOCIAL PROBLEM.
| have been very interested reader
of the social studies appearing from
time to time in your valuable paper.
The discussion adds credit to both
writers. "Working Girl" shows. ii
not as she says, "her position entities
her tn prominence" her beauty and
depth of thought place her foremost,
any where, as gifted with rare intellect.
l have been close observer of life's
changes and 1 cannot say my views
have placed the young ladies of our
country on as high u pedestal as
working Girl" and "Flaneur." III
they were what they should he there
would not be so many stoop down
from their high places and go with the
bad men. | see it all around me-
beautiful girls with cultivated minds,
infatuated with young men,
whose only attainments are u smatter-
ing in the ways of the world, Whose
teachings are from the saloon and
gambling table. Parents and friends
may warn them, but loves fatal
mesh weaves its cords 80 strongly
nothing but death will sever them.
Yet that is why the world today is
tilled with broken hearts, broken
hearted wives of drunkartis. Why 1t
is girls will accept the company Of
young men, ut the ball or other social
gatherings, when they know Of their
intemperance, is more than mere
problem. You will be enabled to work
it out 40 as to secure the answer. Alas,
the young men only know it too well,
he kno rs lie is guilty of Commission
or Commission. 1t does not matter.
He receives smiles and Is welcomed to
the homes of the fair and beautiful
girls, eau escort them AS partners and
yet al lovers and later on get their
promises of marriage MS though he
were an exemplary young mai. 1.-THE
two classes were counting the same airl
Probably some of the society young
ladies will be shocked ut this article
and exclaim, 1.-The idea Of Us going
with such class" Well what kind
of class do you 60 with my pretty
ones: Let me guess. Perhaps your
social position places you above the
laboring class. Those who go To- the
open saloon and spend their nights
around the gambling table. Because
your lover has an M. d. attached to
his name or reads Blackstone, or has a
fine, large mercantile house he can
call his own. sports with the upper
ten. makes grand show wherever he
goes. Yet nightly you will lind him
at bis club. drinking fine wines and
liquors, gambling away into the night
often morning dawn finds him hardly
able to reach home. Are you my dear,
cultivated, college bred young ladies,
anv su.er OF a happy life, with such
men than the poor girl who marries
the saloon sot? I think not. | be-
lieve would risk the labOring, bad
man quicker than the rich, educated
bad man, for often in the case OF the
former a rugged honesty asserts itsel
and a. the years go by and expenses
increase, he may have to reforms
through due necessity. The educated
bad man relies SO much on his talents
to take him along, keep him as it were
in the arms of society, his money give
hin, unlimited scope for ever! indu''
pcnce. But even If he can furnish
xilded cage for his family. hearts car
b. broken, bitter tears shed, mounds
eau be heaped over new made graves
made there by the cruelties of these
great men rs well as those who are not
great. The great social problem De-
fore US il this, women and girls, men
aud boys to sum II all uD. Let every
one who loves right IN on the side o.
right aud not once cOuntenance any
| thing that Is wrong If the girls only
we're aware uf The fact, they cOulo
make y greater reform In pursuing TINS
course than the world has ever known
for love is u potent power and works
greater results With those who an
seeking for the hand in marrige. tina,
after they have obtained it. HUN
dreds Of men would scOrn to seiec
their wives from the lower class, ever
If they are not what they should b'
themselves, so to obtain their equals
the reform would come. What hap
nv contamination. do not preten'
to say bu: what moral worth Is rec"g
nized all over the world by the thou
sands, but there are millions OF mer
without any moral right VIII" are rec
Ognized also.
Some months ago there was grand
article written and published in you
naDer by some master mind. givin'
his views on the problem Of life, bu
mot under that title. What he eX
messed I fully concur in. He said rec
ignition Of true moral worth was tn
kew to unlC OK the mystery, and man.
other golden truths; and so it Is, no
until that happy event takes place WI
YOU see any difference in the presen
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