The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-22

OF Denver? The decent, kindly. big
hearted women of any city In the
whole country
Fudge and fiddlcs,icks. That sort
OF talk g. ali very well for the third
act of a problem play. But this isnt
u play. Il g. real life in an American
city Do you know any such hard
hearted demons yourself2 ! do not
] don't believe there iB one woman
IN thousand who wouldn't go out Cf
her way TO help an unhappy girl who
was really trying 10 help herself IN
spite % the fact that nine hundred
out OF the thousand women have lived
through just the very "tenlpts lions"
that drove that girl 10 her terrible
lie
~ cold room with Bible I'm it"'
What hidcous fate. II the Bible 80
terrible that even the sight OF - is
unbearable TO one so proud and SEN
sitive as a woman must be who lives
as this woman you quote so glioiy
lives?.
"Unfortunates." you call these
women. and so in the name 81 all that
is pitiful thoy are, but why do they
20 on being unfortunstes? II they
do not like the life. why 30 they not
leave II?
Do you pretend that anything on
earth could keep woman OF the right
SORT in such a life for n minute after
she had found pistol or n box OF
morphine powder?
Sorry for these women? Yes. Of
course I am 1 am sorry for a lepcr.
too-crucliy sorry for him; sorry for
the murderer who must suffer the
penalty OF his crime. but not so
sorry that ] feel II my duty TO ask
the leper to spend the week end with
my little children; not so sorry for
the murderer that ! think / should
give him a now suit Of clothes.
good gun. the key TO my front door.
and tell him 10 so on out and kin
some more people so ! can keep on
being sorry FOR him.
I'll tell you who / am sorry tor,
TOO. Miss Alice Bohc I am sorry
Tor the poor mother whose boy that
woman OF yours drags down 10 dis
grace and misery. | am sorry for the
poor young wife whose heart breaks
because OF that woman's very cN-
istcnce.
I am sorry for the little foolish
lifc by this Very woman and her
kind.
] am sorry for the little mother
who holds her little brood close 10
her heart and goes to bed hungry
and rises hungry 20 work hard. She's
young and pretty, too; light hearted.
too; lonely, too: fond of pretty
clothes, too. she Is not 'drlyel TO
that lie because she is afraid she
might be insulted by the offer OF
mcnial work.
I'm getting so tired OF il. all this
talk OF the poor driven sisters OF
sin" I'm tired OF this talk Of the
inhuma nifty Of woman 10 woman.
Who is it that is inhuman. I
should like TO know--the woman who
does the right thing. the unseliish
thing. the noble thing. the decent
thing. no matter how hard II is. or
the one who turks In the shadow FOR
n chance 10 take the honest woman's
heart out Of her breast and hold IL
up to be laughed at In the red light
district?
Shall the red light district 20?
DO not know | do not pretend to he
wise enough to know. But one thing
! do know. and that Is that 1 be-
lievc II is time TO begin TO be Just
little sorry for the woman who
lives in the home this girl from the
red lights does her best 10 desc
late.
wonder how the plain. every
dag mothers OF this country feel
about this deluge OF sentimentality
about the fallen sister who wants
to stay fallen rather than go TO
work?