Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-29

MES REP Bill
but will say then, Thank God; and
get out of 1t right now" for the next
time you may.
Great Social Evil.
The dance is the hotbed of immor-
ality, and l unflinchingly denounce 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.
fall of more girls is due to it than any
one thing allowed within the pale of
decent society
Stun Dance Best.
But you say, The dances which you
have attacked and the dances which
speak of are different. 1 mean the
club dance, and you are talking about
the Stun dance"
1t is all the same dance and the
Stun dance has the best of you, for
they wear more clothes than you peo-
pie do.
DO you remember that crusade we
had in Chicago to put out the dirty,
sinking dancing halls?
1t Makes Expenses.
We went before the city council, and
that whisky gang fought right and left,
and why? Just for the privilege of
selling whisky there. People were
brought with statistics, and Jean Cow
gill, head of the home for fallen girls
at Geneva, said that $50 per cent of all
the girls that came to that home come
because of the dance" SO that is
what the taxpayers of Illinois have to
pay for They have got to help sup
port the products of the dance.
Seven million girls go wrong in a
century in this country, and three
fourths of them are ruined by the
dance.
The chief of police of New York says
three ourths of the abandoned crea-
lures there fell thru the dance.
Where 1t Starts.
Where did the gambler get his first
drink? In the social glass.
Where did the gambler get his first
lesson? In somebody's parlor
Where did the prostitute feel for the
first time the premature Indictment of
passions? Down on the ball room
floor.
Think of it, young man! You who sit
there in Your manhood, think of it!
You that love womanhood for woman
hoods sake! You who have sister!
Three-fourths of all the abandoned
women fall as the result of the dance.
Statistics only change in the adjust
ment, but the percentage holds good
year after year.
There are 100000 public prostitutes
in the United States. Their average
life is from three to five years. Three
hundred and seventy five thousand fall
as the result of the dance Am my
sisters keeper?
Sisters Responsibility.
Sisters! If you countenance the
dance you are your sisters murderess.
You are responsible for her fall, be-
cause you could have thrown your in
fluence against it:
You become responsible for every
fallen person so long as you champion
the dance.
You are responsible for every rotten,
puking drunkard as long as you vote
for the grog shop.
1t is charged the 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
on the shores of time.
l thank God that there are women
that will rescue the fallen and help
them TO crawl out of the quagmire of
filth.
No Harm for You.
Somebody says: We'll, it don't harm
me-" You with your cold, reserved
chaste nature you would repel a
man at a glance. How about your
little fat, voluptuous sister?
She will stand and listen to the
honeyed lies of some dude whispered
into her ears while dancing, and
should she fall and become his mis-
tress after running her life he will cast
her off, society turns from her plead
ings and she hides herself in some
dark spot of a great city and waits
the death cry in her ears.
Life is out 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 if there are any variations in tenn
perature in hell, you will be detailed
to crack birthstone on the hottest
spot.
If only you knew how many letters
receive from mothers and doctors
and midwives, from the people called
to look upon scenes of sin and see the
evil of the modern dance. Letters
commenting me and thanking me for
my courage, and because 1 fearlessly
and uncompromisingly denounce all
these things of high society!
| If / speak plain, it is because of blood
red conviction, and 1 have the vail of
lost souls ringing in my heart
| God would damn me if 1 didn't cry
out against these sins
Charity Balls.
| We have charity balls, and I think
that they are the biggest insult to
God Almighty and decency that God
ever looked at.
| Are you so low down that you would
not give dollar to charity unless they
got up a dance which propagates har-
lotry and keeps the brothels full?
Full dress they call it-undress is
nearer right
Must Pander to Lust.
You have got to have something
that panders to lustful desires OF
men.
The decollette costume was the in
vention of the harlot
A CIR Twas getting ready for char.
ity ball and she fixed her hair. (Mr
Sunday acted this out in pantomine, }