Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-15
THE GIRLS WHO TRUSTED

THE GlfsLS WhO ThUST6D
 Some women in the middle west are seeking to save from electrocution young mother who killed the brute that betrayed her.
 An Indiana widow is suing 56-year- old millionaire who ruined her 13-year old daughter.
 Every day in every state in the union, this hideous crime of seduction of young, ignorant and helpless girls fore es itself prominently into the news.
 It is not pleasant subject to think about.
 It is considered a delicate one to dis. cuss above a whisper
 ic Flourishing in the shadow of false modesty and protected by silence, it has become one of the commonest crimes of the times, and one of the farthest-reachihg in heart breaking re- suits. xy
 Murder of the poor victim, resorted to in so many notorious cases, is not the worst outcome.
 Too many loving trusting girl, awakening to the horror haunting real ization of her deception, it is death that is kind and life that is intolerably cruel.
 More common even than her murder by her deceiver, to cover up his more cowardly crime, is her own suicide to hide her shame.
 More to be pitied, more deserving of charitable consideration, and more in need of sympathetic help, than any oth- CT sinner in this world, is the unguided, inexperienced, credulous girl who learns only through the hardest of lessons that lust is not love, and that the seeming lover with sweet words of affection and faithfulness on his tongue can be a beast at heart.
 It is hard for the ignorant, innocent girl to believe that the older man who fascinatss her through his fattering at tentions and seductive words of love can be liar and selfish schooner.
 And when, through the strange sweet intoxication of her first love, she ideal izes him into perfection of truth and loyalty, and feels that any sacrifice she may make to him is but poor return for his devotion, she is as helpless in his hands as a newborn babe.
 All the more pitiful if the girl be motherless7
 Many poor girl whose mother lives is motLerless in this matter because the parent deems it indelicate to talk with daughter of such things.
 And when the horror of her situation breaks upon her the unmothered girl has none to turn to but the man who has wronged her, and in him she can meet only unfortunate marriage, deser- tion, death or disgrace.
 The murders from this cause we may count. The desertions we estimate. But the unhappy marriages, ending in di- vorce or continuing in lifelong misery, no one can knOW.
 There is no escape for the poor vic tim. but in marriage, and marriage is no escape.
 For the girl who becomes the wife of a man who commits this worst of wrong things against her has dynamite under home and the fuse lit.
 Lust and love are as wide apart as lie and truth, and as unlike as wrong and right.
 True love protects. It does not de mand, but gives. It does not lower, it uplifts. It does not tempt; it shields. It does not wrong; it holds to virtue.
 The man who will wrong the girl he professes to love will, as her hus- band, continue to ruin others through the same lies.
 If he will be thus faithless to her whom he says he loves, he will be faith less to all the world.