The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-14

the most debasing and damnable that
could be conceived of. You who are so
confident that this is a necessary eVll
and so sure that il will always exist. why
not use the same tactics with this as
you would with the saloon?
When man degrades himself every BODY
is ready 10 help reform him. but when
d woman degrades herself everybody Is
ready TO send ner to hell as quickly as
possible. Every avenue OF escape from a
life of shame is cut off. and every hope
of heaven is lost unless the minister OF
the gospel Of some salvation Army angel aTa
on her death bed. Shame on such a meth
cd and shame on a people that advocates
these methods or even winks at them
There are a few exceptions TO this rule
even in Salt Lake City, ana for this rea-
son l would oppose the deliberate stock
ade. money making scheme of lustful
and Constituencies men and women. Far
better would il be for this city TO build
refOrmaJOFy. a rescue home, where II
but one in twenty years were led TO bet
ter life II would be ample reward for All
that the city had expended. There are
women in Salt Lake City who have been
lifted from a life of shame and have
made good wives and mothers, and are
true and faithful to their vows.
THE trouble is If a fallen woman wants
to reform she is met with repulse at every
spectacle living is closed to her. Had
Christ and the early disciples acted as
many of his professed followers act today
the Magdalene would have filled har-
lots grave instead of weeping at her mas
ter's tomb
NO city can afford 10 be a party to
woman's disgrace and shame. To enter
into an agreement. tacit or otherwise 10
protect crime increases The possibilities
of greater crimes and an extension or
Injunction of the stockade on the west
side will be made permanent. The loss
of those cribs would be but partial
retribution for the contemplated degra-'
datiOn of women.
Il mean by a refOrmatory or rescue
home place where girls and women who
wish to escape from life of shame can
go and be received kindly and taken care
OF comfortably until places can be pro-
cured for them where they can make a
respectable living and have surroundings
of responsibility. A place where good
men can go and find a woman that will
make him good wife. place where
those who want help can go and get the
help with a good recommendation with
il; a place that the citizens may be proud
of and can support by furnishing homes
and places of employment for the inmates
as fast as the women prove that they are
in earnest about reform. This can never
be done by stockade system of regu-
lating the social evil.
las it is contemplated in the new red
light plan woman has the alternative
of standing behind the bars of a prison
cell or looking out of the window of a
crib; between spending her time in the
environment of the basest kinds of Grim
inals in a prison cell or spending her
time with brutes in human form. No Wo-
man who enters that stockade may ever
hope for rescue. And no man who Is
not so dehased as to have lost all sense
OF shame will ever want to be seen to
enter there, and yet there will be those
who will go.
You. fathers and mothers, owe II to
yourselves and your families and to this
city, to oppose in every legitimate way
such public eonnivance with and pTepar-
alton for the protection of crime as is
contemplated in this new red light move.