The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

decision of the highest tribunal
known, it can not do so without
violating the Constitution and its
municipal oath.
Judge Artman says: A wrong
is not legal right and can not be
made such by legislative enact
ment."
S. c. West. V. so. l.. r. A. 279
The moral law is the indestructi-
bic and eternal sense of justice and
right, written by God on the living
tables of the human heart. The
moral law holds it's dominion by di-
vine ordination over all, and from
which escape or evasion are impos-
sible."
That the above statements are
in harmony with recognized truth,
no thoughtful man will deny.
Knowing these principles to be
true, reasonable and right, what
can we hope for in final results
when we violate, openly and know
ngly, the same' Let the voice of
experience again be heard.
Experience says; - Consider
France when she denied God and
substituted for him a painted har-
lot, and let the Reign of Terror
be warning. Experience invites
us to consider Mormonism substi-
tuting polygamy for the monogamy
given and commanded of God. The
unspeakable history of Mormonism
sounds no uncertain alarm. Exper-
fence leads us into the great cities
where recognized wrongs have re-
ceived municipal protection. Prob
ably not in one of these, but VIII at
the Mayor would say as the Mayor
of Ellensburg said recently to me:
Yes, know l can abolish the
same and make prostitution to be
an unlawful practice any day may
elect, but think it would bring a
bout a greater evil"
DR.. Flora A. Pollack of Balti-
more, in John Hopkins Hospital
Bulletin for May 1909, said: From
actual reports, from 500 to 1000
children from one to fifteen year
of age are annually inundated on
the alter of perverted male lust in
Baltimore alone" And yet with
these awful results known, NUM-
cipalities like our own insist that
the polygamous desire on the part
of men should be grati6ed, and es-
tablish red light districts for his
convenience and for the revenue.
DR.. Prince A. Morrow, President
of the American Society of SAM
tary and Moral Prophylaxis, esti-
mates that 7Oper cent of the 77O,-
600 who yearly approach the years
of early maturity. will contract
venereal disease, and 60 per cent
of them will do so before they are
rs years of age"
DR.. H. A. Kelley of New York,
last July estimated that in the city
alone are 200. 900 syphilitic patients
and 800. OO0with gonorrhoea, 1000
900 cases of venereal disease in one
city. One out Of every five of all
the men, women and children.
The President of a Gynecologi-
cal Society, at a Congress of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, Washington
City, 1907, estimated that 20 per
cent of all female patients requir-
ing abdominal or pelvic surgery,
are brought to this condition by
venereal disease, and in many cas-
es, innocently acquired.
In South Carolina, one teacher
estimates that not more than 20
per cent of her pupils are free from
social impurity.
One teacher in western town
estimates that not more than 3 to 5
per cent of the pupils are free from
this evil.
DR.. G. Standley Hall in his 'Ad-
olescence" says: Il received 232
replies from College and theologi
cal students, to the question
What was the severest temptation
of your school days?' All but 8
answered, some form of the social
evil"
So great has become the demand
for inmates of the licensed houses
of prostitution, that the White
Slave Traffic is now known to exist
in every part of the country. In
New York, alone. more than 2OO,-
600 men are engaged in the traffic
of girls.
Instead of making society secure
by the enforcement of right law,
every home III this land is placed
in jeopardy. No girl in country or
city is safe from snares set for her