The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-01-13
WINSTON IS
CHALLENGED

and using prOfane and obscene Ian
guage In the postoffice and on the
streets late at night; that the first
night man Is in town he can go tc
the postoffice and hear young girls
swearing and cursing and using vile
language In public; that drummers
are solicited by young women OF
this town as soon as they get off
the train. Now, If he said this. !
believe it was a false and malicious
SANDER of the young womanhood OF
this town.
He may be Sherlock Holmes and
may have been able to discover in
the few days he had been in our
midst, condition of moral rotten
ness" that we did not know existed
here. If so he ought to tell our Of
ficers and city authorities and good
people, privately, where to find it
and we would help him to eradi-
cate 1t. He may have heard some
woman or some young girl swear in
public. do not know. / cannot
say. But do not believe it. | do
not believe he has heard eighteen,
or any other considerable number,
swear or use profane language In
the postoffice or on the streets
of this city.
say | do not believe it, because
have, during the more than ten
years | have lived here, been in
the pOstoffice and on the streets at
night, hundreds of times, and have
never yet heard one woman, young
or old, swear in any public place
And | would sooner believe this
preacher was mistaken or had ut
tered faleshood than believe such
thing of the young girlhood of
our town.
feel 1t is the duty of someone
to come to the rescue and challenge
such statements and defend the good
name of the young girlhood of our
town against what / believe Is a
malicious SANDER, uttered by an al
legged minister of the gospel and from
a public pulpit.
The pulpit should not fall be-
low the standard of decency of the
stage, the rostrum or the hastings.
Suppose some lecturer or other pub
lie speaker should use such Ian
guage or make such statements. or
even the clown in some minstrel
show. What would the Christian
people say? What would the peo-
pie do? How long would 1t be toll
Grated? What effect would 1t be
likely to have upon his health or
personal appearance? Would he be
likely to go out of town on the rail-
road or ON a rail? Would he wear
the cloak of sanctity or a coat of
tar and feathers?
For the ministry have the ut
most respect Ministers, as class,
are moral, upright. honest and
thoughtful men. Men who try to
upbuild and uplift the moral tone
and sentiment of the community In
which they live and labor And es.
pecially have l thought this true OF
the ministers of the Christian
church: the church In which may
say | was reared and for which
have the wamest sympathies and
tenderest attachments; the church to
which my sainted mother belongs
and in which my father died. and OF
which my wife Is member. So
sometimes say am brother-in
law to this church.
But do not believe In borrowing
the livery of Heaven to serve the
devil In.
It seems to me every young WON
an and the mother and the father
of every young girl in this town
ought to Indignantly resent this
charge unless its author can substan
tiate its truth.
There Is nothing that ought t.
more thoroughly arouse the chivalry
of manhood than an unjust assault
upon the virtue and good name Of
young girlhood.
There Is nothing that should bt
more sacredly guarded and defended
than the virtue and reputation Of
young womanhood.
A young girls good name for pur
ity, virtue and chastity is the mos
precious jewel given her by God OF
man. And worth more to her thar