Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-17
DR.. ;Psrkhurst Tells Onlya Small Part Of
whats the Matter With New York"


Sg$S&! for the bettermert
of mankind, ,hundreds-aye, thousands
-of dollars are spent to perpetuate its
crimes, and to hide them when COM
nnitted. New York is not only power
in finances, bat 1t is the one city in the
I land where the devil has sure sinch,
and where he roilicks at will and laughs
at the hundreds of thousands of human
beings yearly brought into his fold
through the passions and fancies of
those people who have assumed to say
that they alone should be permitted to
controll the destinies of this broad land.
And the New York press, blind to
all sense of honesty, fairness or justice.
would slander Kansasi New York,
where many thousands of children grow
mp in ignorance, crime and vice for the
want of sufficient school facilities; for
the lack of even the most common aids
to intelligent manhood. New York
would call Kansans regulators, an
archists. revolutionists and lunatics!
In a sermon not long ago, in one of
the swell churches of that city, DR..
Parkhurst stated that there are at
least $50, 900 unfaithful husbands and
wives in that city-two hundred and
fifty thousand men and women who
are unfaithful to their marriage vows;
who, although generally rolling in
wealth, are unclean, foul and beastly
In their secret lives. In afterwards
commenting on the statement, DR..
Parkhurst said:
Il did not make the statement yes
terday without making careful obser-
vatiOn." For months the subject has
had my careful scrutiny, and L have
found the condition to be positively
damning. 1 have had hundreds and
hundreds of people come to me- in this
study and pour out their stories of con-
jugal infidelity. both men and women.
When I say 25O. 900 it is a round sum
that comes very close to the real fig
nres. have figured it from my own
experience, Being one of the National
Christian League for the Promotion of
Social Purity, have had ample oppor-
tunity to make careful study
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis, president
of the Social Purity League, said that
she thought DIR. Parkhurst erred in
placing the number at 250, 200.
''There is more than that" she said,
'sand the most of them are in the upper
circles of society. Here is a society
running around to save the miserable
10000 depraved women in the city.
What are they compared with the more
than 250, 900 married persons who are
no better than theyp"
And from New York City. the bes-
tial, immoral. conscienceless center of
all that is umanly and unwomaly. emil
mates most of the slanders upon the
fair fame of Kansas and her people;
and there are. even in Kansas, debas-
ed, corrupted and servile politicians
who take as their standard of political
sagacity and moral worth these same
New Yorkers, and repeat here under
our very noses, the ISLANDERS started in
that modern Sodom. They would have
the whole world do as does New York.
Why do DECENT Kansas people enconr-
age these imitators of plstocratic beast
iinessY Has the foul virus of their
practices contaminated US?
When ISLANDERS upon the fair name
and fame of the loyal. patriotic, CLEAN
people of Kansas are slung into our
faces let US denounce the papers and
men who encourage and repeat those
slanders just as strongly as we de-
nounce the originators thereof.
A Fine Program.
It is not often that Meriden has the