The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-08

! in the biased vigilance Of the police
and council? The people have right
to an answer to this question.
Again, an effort must be made 10
elevate the tone of public sentiment
respecting the polluting influences OF
/ social life. The perils which threaten
! call for immediate effort The stand
/ ard of social ethics. i'm conversation, In
4 qualification for friendship. in recrea-
/ ton, needs to be raised. The vile So
/ cial code, where one standard of morals
/ is required of a woman and another
! permitted to man, must be abolished
/ Gods law demanding purity knows no
! distinction of sex. IL social laws or
sentiments bear harder upon woman
| than upon man, or with more exact
| ing demands, those laws or sentiments
are social lies. There must be no con-
doning of an offense on the part of a
| man which would make a social out
| cast of woman. If the woman be
ostracized, let the defiled man know
that he too is a social leper If the
scarlet brand be on one, let it burn
down as deep and hot into the quick
for the other If one be returned to
former station upon repentance and
confession. let the other also Bring
charity up from a prudish and partial
plane to that of Jesus Christ. Let him
who associates with the unclean be
counted as unclean as they are. There
are men who for a moments passion
would bring into pure homes physical
poison, incurable evil, hereditary faint,
age-long degeneration. moral shame.
social ruin and marital infidelity. Let
lepefs be treated as lepers We're in for
mer days Let the race have a chance
TO get clean. Reform the men. A So
cial regeneration here must begin with
the men. Almost wholly this evil is of
their making. 1t is they who have
sacrificed the weaker To the stronger,
the ignorant to the designing. In this
day of rapidly advancing civilization
the public needs To be educated up TO
the great thought of "a pure life for
two" This city should have imme
dfately an ordinance providing, in con-
nection with the prosecution of the
keepers and inmates of houses of ILL
repute, for the punishment of men
found there Men originate the vice
which results in disease, therefore all
measures for repression or care must
include men, who are the originators
of the vice and also disseminators of
the disease. This is a vice i'm which
two participate and the originator and
maintainer Of its fearful work is the
man, not the woman. In attempts to
deal with this evil we have contem-
plated only one-half of it and ignored
the other. As has been said: Can
farmer succeed in protecting his sheep
by merely fencing them in2 Is it not
still more necessary that he chain the
dog?
1t is well known that the women hold
to this situation the key. Society is in
explicably cruel to the fallen woman,
and at the same time unreasonably
charitable towards the man who has
caused her ruin. That the author of
such a moral crime should be received
into society, and thus his crime con-
doned, should enjoy the respect of his
friends Fl.inuln ha
wives and daughters of others is folly,
an outrage and a crime. The very sin
that excludes her from the ordinary
pursuits of life and shuts the door to
every avenue of usefulness in her face,
is very often the introduction to the
portals of society to offending man.
The woman is a sinner the man a hero.
Where is our boosted chivalry? This
unjust distinction has its foundation in
the uncharitable attitude of the female
sex and the contemplate meanness of
the male sex, which thinks more of
its own lusts than it does of feminine
character, and, unfortunately. succeeds
in constraining women to discriminate
between a fallen brother and a fallen
sister much according To base mans
arbitrary criterion.
But this paper is getting entirely too
long. The conclusion has been we'll put
for us: Every minister must think on
unwary. and must protect them by up-
lifting the human standard of en-
nobling domestic life in order TO shame
and silence the demon whisper of mere
animal instinct
Every woman must estimate charae-
ter above fortune in her choice of
friends, and the basis of character is
truthfuness.
All men and all women who forgive
and honor the returning prodigal son
should do no less for the returning
prodigal daughter
Every man of good will. young or
old, must treat all women With respect.
not with mere lift-the-hat display, but
with sincere. considerable courtesy for
the sake of their womanhood. BY such
an example each man can best teach
every other man this first chara cteris-
tic of true manhood. Such principles
daily practiced will hasten the day
when we shall not be obliged to listen
to such language as the following from
the Yellowstone Journal. which is, alas,
too true: The best thing for Butte
to do is to admit its rottenness, its
culpability and its utter failure, wipe
off the slate clean and try to be an
American city, maintaining the law
supreme and the rights of the people
under the law. Then Montana will
be proud of il instead of as now. pa
rading il as a miracle of wickedness
and a paradise of the law breaker"