The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-02-17

has been found at last. Thousands
of men have asked me why they
were not taught the danger of vice
in their youth, and have had no re.
ply to make. l intend now, with
Gods help, to remove this reproach
from Gods land" The Bishop OF
| London.
We're the mothers OF our land to
know the stories which are told to
the Judges of the children's criminal
courts by unfortunate children and
young girls, they would awaken to
realization of their duty to pro-
tect their offspring from the awful
consequences of ignorance on the
vital subjects of existence.
For many years this writer in this
paper has maintained exactly what
the Bishop of London has stated, and
it is gratifying to know that a gen.
eral awakening upon the all-impor-
tant subject has come to the think
ing world.
But there are still thousands of
parents that are asleep and who
dream that their children are pro-
tected by ignorance from all possible
evil, and that through their inno-
cence they will be safe from danger.
These parents allow their girls to
go to and fro attending public
schools and high schools, unguard-
ed by knowledge of the world and
it's ways; or to and fro from factor
les and shops, without ever men
tioning the danger which lie in wait
for beautiful, budding girlhood and
womanhood in the everyday walks
of life. They either allow their girls
to associate freely with boys and
young men, asking no questions and
believing that their innocence is
their protection, or else they forbid
the companionship of the opposite
sex, and SO arouse curiosity and in
cite deception as the natural i'm
pulses awaken in the nature of the
young for association with opposite
sex.
We are hearing shocking and ter
rible tales daily of the white slave
traffic" in every city in America.
Young girls scarcely out Of child
hood being coaxed and lured or en-
trapped in various ways into the
tolls of depraved men, who make a
living by selling virtue to the high
est bidder. Miserable degenerate
specimens of young manhood are
trained to attract young girls by
polite and seemingly innocent atten-
lions first, and then to lead them to
their ruin.
Wretched and debased women lend
their aid to the same awful end. Not
only are the young immigrants and
the young schoolgirls and shopgirls
in large cities made victims of these
slave traders, but the villages and
country places are searched for new
material by the spies and emissaries
of the devil in human form. These
are not tales told by alarmists, they
are absolute facts, and can be sub
stantiated by anyone who cares
enough for the salvation of the
world to look into the subject.
So long as those things are true,
50 long as such terrible conditions
exist. it behooves these parents of
the land to arouse from their sweet
dream of the innocence and safety of
their girls and to protect them by
educating them properly at an early
age. The moment the child shows
any curiosity about the origin of
life, that moment the child is old
enough to become the confident of
it's parent to certain degree.
The mother should say in reply to
any such questions, If the child is of
kindergarten age, something in this
line:
Children, like plants, come into
the world according to the wonder
full law of the creator. 1t is beau
tiful and holy thing; and when you
are older and your mind has grown
with your body, then we will tell
you all about it. Meantime it is a
sacred subject, like religion, and one
that must never be gossiped about
lightly. Never ask other children or
anyone but your mother to tell you