The Monitor-register., 1896-04-24

that as the result of the medical inspection
certificate, he would be equally
assured of freedom from any danger of
disease, as the result of his indulgence.
These men grew eloquent in their
eulogles of the system as it exists In the
DID World and as eloquent in their de-
nunciations of SO called p~uritanical
restraint and prohibitory efforts. Then
turning to the only one of their party who
bad not taken any part in the discussion.
they asked for his opinion. "Havine
assumed" he replied, "the necessity for
the existence of the social evil, Won have
most assuredly presented a way in which
sin on the part of men may have free
course in apparent safety. But In this
discussion you nave also assumed as a
matter Of necessity and as something that
you have a perfect right to do, the sacrifice
to a living death and an eternal hell of
my daughter, or what is the same, of
somebody's daughter, for the qualification
OF the sinful lust and passion of your son.
You argue that, il there were no houses
of prostitution, then no ones dau lighter
would be safe on the street and 30 You
would sacrifice with legal ceremonies
some of the daughters that the others
may be safe. If you mean that u
oooS hbOAo WOSAA OO III u6B&oTO U GuUTIQIcU
assault from all men,-from your sons
then you present such a degraded view
OF the human race as to make It's annihi.
lation the heart prayer of all good men
and women.
If you do not consider the sinful indul.
gence of his passions a great crime on the
part of man, but a physical necessity, and
therefore maintain the views you have
expressed, as to the best methods of
meeting that necessity with the greatest
safety-then | meet your argument with
these two words, Whose daughter p If
You deliberately assert that your son in
his coming to manhood can not restrain
himself, but that somebody's daughter
must be sacrificed to his lust, l ask,
Whose daughter p In this removal OF
restraint from his path, it may be my
daughter who will be swept away to per-
dition, as thousands upon thousands o!s
daughters have been swept. But
gentlemen" he said, rising to his feet
and looking each enc Of them in the eye,
81 have a dear, loving, beautiful daugh-
ter, and if l knew that one of you were
purposing in his heart to sacrifice her for
the qualification of the passions of your
son, l would bury you and your son in
the dishonOred grave you would deserve,
calling upon God to help me do my right
eous duty in preserving my loved daughter
from hellish lust and damnstion.
"But if you say that of course you had
no thought of sacrificing my daughter,
then l ask, Whose daughter? For if 1
wonld put forth my life without question
or hesitation to defend the honor of my
daughter. would it be possible for me to
agree in cold blood to a system that is
based upon the sacrifice of some other
mans daughter? My one answer to all
your arguments is, Whose daughter? p
| do not admit your assumption that the
existence of the social evil is a necessity,
for the word of God reveals the high
ideal of a pure manhood that shall make
the white life for two the shining of the
Divine Presence In the earth home, and
make its pure love and unalloyed happi-
ness a crown of glory upon the chaste
life. No sin is a necessity. for into the
life may be received the Divine Presence
and help by which we overcome all sin.
As the father looks into the sweet,
trusting face of his little girl, the mere
statement of such propositions as you
have advanced makes the hot blood rush
into his veins, and a true fatberhood
stand ever ready to smite to the earth
and to death the one that would offer the
sweet girl on the altar of lust on the
false plea for necessity. To all comes the
question, that should place every one on
the side of purity forever-Whose
daughter shall be sacrificed Whose
daughter shall be destroyed forever ?"
n X X
Indeed "whose daughter ?''- and
ohose son? For 'they rise and fall
together, dwarfed or Godlike, bond or
free."
Waging our peaceful war,
Sincerely,
RUTH.
Creamridge. 9TH Mo. 2tst. 1905