Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-08

Professor Faulkner, chairman of
the Dancing Master associations on the
coast. who had six private dancing
schools of his own. and an income OF Il
thousand dollars month was con-
verified. and gave them ui,. and If there
was no Farm in it, why not keep on?
have moro respect Tor q saoon-
keeper than for a dancing teacher,
don't believe The saloons will 10
all much 70 damn the morals Of young
people as the dancing school.
Ihat is my nositi.a. don't care
ANYTHING about yours.
Professor Faulkner ,,,i,l tnat he knew
of one private dancing school that sent
six girls into tonses Of IL fame IN
three months. IL talked with two
hundred girls ANA found that 1866 fell
as tie result If tie dance. twenty BY
drink. ten By choice and seventy from
poverty.
Where do YOU find the accomplish
ed dancers? In the siothels and the.
We're taught in Gancing schools.
Listen TO me. girls, ] have never
yet and | never Will daily contradict
the man or woman hat tells me that
he or size dances and never knew of
premature imcitement OF passion. |
say that ] viii never contradict them.
but ! viii say then. THANK God: and
get out of it right now" fer the next
time You may
Great Social EVIL
The dance is the hot bed OF inmor-
atty and | unfinchugiy denuunce the
dance. 1T is one OF the greatest social
evils in the world.
] don't believe that it is even an in
nocent amusement because the down.
1al! OF more girls is duo TO it than any
one ching allowed within the pale Of
decent socty.
Stun Darce Best.
But YOU say The dances which I
have attacked aud he dances which
You speak of are different. l mean
the ciub dance, and you are talking
about the slcln dance. ~
Z 1t is all the same dance and the sl1,n
'dance has the best Of you. for they
Wear more clothes than YOU people Go.
DO you remember that crusade Wa
mad III Chicago to put out the dirty
sinking dancing halls.
It Makes Expenses.
We went before the city council.
and that wilisAey gang fought right
and left, and why? Just for the privi-
lese of selling whiskey there. Peopio
Were brought with statistics and
Jean Cowgirl, head of the home fox
1alien girls at Geneva, said thai
Eighty per cent of all the girls that
came to that home came because OF
the dance So that as what the tax.
payers of Illinois have to nav for
They have got to help support the
products of the dance.
Seven million girls go wrong in 3
century in this country and three.
fourths of them ere ruined by tho.
dance.
The chief of police of New Yorl:
says three-fourths of the abandon ed
creatures there fell through the
dance
Where it Starts.
Where lid the drunkard eet his
first drink" In the social glass,
Where ,1;c the gambler get his first
lesson! In somebody's rarlor.
Where did the prostitute feel for the
first time the premature incitemcn.
OF passions. Down on the bali room
floor.
Think Of it, young man, You sill
there in your manhood, think of il,
You that love womanhood for woman
hoods sake You who have a sist y,
Of all the Abandoned
women fall as the result OF the danes
statistic; only change in the aggre
gate, but the percentage holds pood
wear after -ear.
mere ar, 100000 public prostitutes
in the United States. Their average
life is from three to five years, Three
and seventy-fve Thousand
fall as the result OF the dance. AMI
my sister, keeper?
Sisters possibility.
Sisters! If you counteuance tho
dance you are your sisters murder
ess. You ale responsible for her fall
because you could have thrown your
influence against it.
You become responsible for every
fallen person as long as you champion
The dance.
You are responsible for every rot.
ten, pulling drunkard as long as you
vote for the grog shop
1t IS charged that women are like a
pack of wolves. You will stop long
enough beside the fallen one to rip
and tear what little character she has
left and leave her to rot and bleach
OH the shores of time.
! thank God that there are women
'hat VIII rescue the fallen and help
ihem to crawl out of the quagmire OF
filth.
No Harm for You.
Somebody says. We'll. il don't
harm me-" You with your cold re.
served chs;te natGre.- you would re,
pei man al glance. How about
you little sister?
She will stand and listen to the
honeyed lies of some dude, whispered
into her cars while dancing, and
should she fall and become his mis-,
tress. after running her life he will
east her Off, society turns from her
pleadings and she hides herself in
some dark spot of a great city and
waits the death cry in her ears.
Life is ont for her and society
stands with outstretched arms to
welcome the man who is the triple
extract of The devils essence.
Gods Vengeance.
An avenging God is on your track
and il there are any variations in
in he'll, you would be de
tailed to crack birthstone on the hot.
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