The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-09-09

grounds, she is rose-lipped |
daughter of childish glee, am wont |
to say, oh how much | would prefer |
to have said life's last good night |
while her soul in life was free from |
this whitening, blighting touch of
this fiend incarnate.
This information Is in the hands |
of the prosecuting attorney and the |
officers of the law, whose hands are
tied by the parents of some Of these |
girls who will not consent to swear
out the warrants for those who are
guilty and responsible for the shame
and debuachery, that they could be
brought to the bar of justice and
there meet the punishment that
should be theirs.
There comes to all of us an event
which is filed with bitter sorrow
when we say the last good night to
mother, father, sister and brother, TO
comrade and friend and, last, to
wife, which seems that none could
forget, and know that in the human
heart there is a touch of sympathy
born of kindred spirit which goes
out involuntarily to humankind, in
words of coincidence, acts of mercy
and friendship that ascend perpetual
ly and point our thoughts toward
the home of the good which is sad to
say was absent in the above named
proceedings. / have seen so much
of this in my nightly vigils l some
times feel there is no honesty in the
human heart and but for one thing
these conditions would teach me to
look on all with suspicion. When
foot-sore and weary l turn my foot
steps toward little cottage that is
hid behind the shades of the cherry
trees and over the door twines a
vine, and as ! approach this, where
dwells children whose happy, child
ish, joyful laughter comes sounding
through the threshold of this home,
and ! see the woman who is the
mother of this young child life going
about her domestic work singing
some familiar song, l enter this
home. and when with their arms
about me / am thrilled with the holy
kiss of love ! say with renewed
fervor that love is eternal. l believe
IN the republicanism of the home, its
sanctity to me is living principle
and any wrong committed against
this sacred institution is the act of a
coward, and any men or set of men
VINO knowingly and wilfully commit
an act that tends to destroy this in
stitution Is a knave and a traitor,
and no worse criminal lives today.
have the utmost confidence in the
great common people who love home.
who have that high regard for the
woman whose face is stained with
dust and perspiration of honest toll
and those who stand sun crowned
above the fog of greed: from these
must come the heated breath of con-
domination that will say to these vul-
lures you can have no place among
us and with conviction born of
righteous indignation condemn this
traffic In the wives, daughters and
sisters of our community. People
in their mad rush after the dollar
have lost sight of the most essential
qualification that when properly
nurtured and developed make up
any country's greatness. The alb
breviation of the $ mark will prove
TO be the vulture that stands above
the human heart ever ready to pluck
the flower of pity from it. and money
is curse when it is made the cruel
BILE in which all the things that
touch us are tried in The sordid
love of money will he the remises
to any people, any community, who
blindly abridges every other consid-
Grafton for 1t, and this mad rush for
money is in a measure responsible
for some of this shame that will
cause the blood Mantle in many faces
to grow crimson when they read this.
Trying to find the cause for this
burning shame, I will say for the
benefit of fathers and mothers that
the Saturday night dance hall and
the cafe with their midnight lunch
all come in as important factors in
this woe and misery. I want to say
to the evil-doers of men and youth |
that there will come to each OF you
a time when justice balanced in
that eternal calm will shake from its
golden scales the very dust of caste,
and wealth: race color
nor previous condition can have
to do with weighing the |
acts of men" And 10 those OF Won
who wear an insignia of the differ
ent fraternal orders upon the lapel
Of your coat Won will realize that
oath you voluntarily subscribed to
and said under the most sacred sur
that you would keep invio-
late. that You stand dishonored. dis |
graced towards and traitors. and II I
were called on as to what my belief !
of your oath was worth would give |
the true transcript OF my mind. I
would not believe you on oath. I
would not trust you in any transac-
ton where It was left to your honor
and your honesty. and you was sat
isfed ! would have no recourse at |
you in law. ! would not trust you
with the honor of my child. or my |
mother, or my wife and from your
own acts you stand self-confessed OF
deeds that are so reprehensIble you
are stencil in the nostrils OF decent |
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