The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-24
HYPOCR!TES ALL

Surely man is the prince Of hypocrites.
First, he seduces and makes the prosti-
tute.
Second. he erects the standard by which
to judge her
Third. he scorns her, stones her, pun
ishcs her,
And on the sly patronizcs her
O, Hell,
The. above concise statement cx-
presses the stockade question in nut
shell-here You see its natural evolution
from start to finish, but where shall we
look for its solution-evidcntly not in
It's cause, Man.
The last two words of the above quo
tatiop. although neither unique no origi-
nal, express the feeling of disgust at
the surface efforts being made TO
''.rcgulatc y this matter here, which
thought about the proceeding.
1t Is absurd TO blame the American
administration or any other administra-
tion-whether the stockade flouts ITS
colors openly or smoldors under blan-
kets, depends merely upon how cleverly
and successfully the "sbam' is manipu-
lated. No effort is being made on the
part of any administration in any
city to remove the conditions which
make the stockade possible and newt
able. The evil has its roots in men S
hearts, in the false Ideals and standards
which regulate 90 society, and in the
pitiable lack Of education (fore-warn-
ing. fore~arming) of youth.
Efforts to control or subjugate the
stockade here or elsewhere will be dis
gustiug farces so long RS men of the
mental and moral calibre of Moses Har-
man arc imprisoned instead of being
considered the savlors of manhood and
womanbood for their efforts TO place
motherhood and sex on a higher. freer.
more rational plane. Until the highest
function of human beings can be dis
cussed and studied and understood in
the open--until it is 81 pure subject to
those striving TO use, not abuse it-there
can be no solution of the stockade or
kindred problems. Until motherhood is
sacred thing under all, absolutely all
conditions; until the young girl who
trusts man the only way she can trust
hinl-compI tely-is given the tenderest
love, care and respect. there can be
no lessening of the numbers that yearly
sacrifice themselves TO fill the Fcribs. -
Until womanhood is freed from the
lhackles bigotrv and superstition have
placed upon her, especially i'll relation
30 sex matters; until she asserts her
right TO the absolute control Of her own
body; until she Is economically inde'
pendent; until the social stigma is re-
moved from women who give themselves
III love, and is placed on those who sell
themselves for gold, for protection, for
home, so long viii the social evil of
necessity flourish.
The number Of women who have en-
tered the ranks wilfully to lead Il life
Of shame are very few. This is proven
by the number who are unable TO fin
ish their course and fill a suicide 3
grave. The force Of circumstances
shaped for them by their fellow human
being; inherited tendencies forced upon
them by their fathers wild oats; stones
pclted by their sister women, women
with hearts perhaps onc-quarter the size
of thcirs--alI these things, added 10 the
paramount necessity 10 live, are what IN
sure the needed recruits to fill the
ranks.
There would be no prostitutes if the
brief truths expressed in the stanza
quoted abovc were not absolute facts.
Let generation Of real men be born
and solution of this course will he
born with them: but before this miracle
can come TO pass. woman must free her
self from the sbackles she has so long
allowed TO bind-theu will 1t he possible
for her to bring forth sons who respect
WNmanhOnd. SIN E(A.