Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-15
more attention to their daughters ana
less to outside affairs, there would

more attention to their daughters and
less to outside affairs, there would
be fewer women of the underwood"
Stoutly declaring that II the moth.
ers would devote more time and
thought to the actions of their chill
dren, and less to many other inter-
ests, there would be less vice, he scor-
ed roundly the mothers who refused
to listen to wholesome advice along
this line, and In straightforward fash
ion, attacked society for it's code
which makes Of the poor u~nfortunates,
the fallen women, outcasts forever;
and he pleaded for better home sur
roundings and the treatment Of the
social evil as largely a sociology
rather than a criminal problem.
TO improper environment he attrib.
uted a considerable portion of the
waywardness of girls and boys; and
in support of his statements, he cited
cases of hundreds Of young girls
dragged into police headquarters after
midnight, and questioned about their
life histories. These, he asserted,
developed quite frequently the fact
that the girls were following the eas-
Ter way, merely, because they had
never been instructed differently by
their mothers and fathers. Then In
lots of pitiful cases, when the moth
'ers would be justly upbraided, the po-
lice would be attacked for interior
ence. '>."
MANY people sit back in easy chairs
and talk about the social evil" said
Eehrendt, when they know no more
about it than a humming bird knows
about building a b%attleship. But l
am not here to deal with that class.
81 am here to talk to ne who
know what the terrible evil Is, n
to plead with you to work to remove
the causes and to deal with the prob
lem from a humane standpoint"
"Classifying the causes of the social
evil, he said that natural perversity,
associations, and poor home surround
ings are the main causes. Chlet
among these, however, he placed m
home environment with lack
of proper advice and tender training.
Many girls, he admitted, took the
downward path solely on account OF
the excitement; but for the most part,
the fault lay with the mothers as we'll
as the fathers-the, mothers especial
ly. He ridiculed the idea that most
girls of the underworld are natural
~ from the poverty-stricken classes
for his long and practical experience
had shown him that girls from the
best families in the land were includ-
ed in the army of fallen u~nfortunates
and outcasts.
81 hope that society will come to a
realization of its crime he pleaded,
"in casting off the fallen women for
and in eloquent tones he fur
Their pleaded with the reformers to
come down from their philosophy and
show that they really mean what they
say by taking fallen girls into their
own homes as AL example to society.
a9'oApwing his arrangement OF the
pSlrerN8 with an equally severe scourg-
ing III the drug laws, which he de-
clared' were not half stringent enough
to prevent boys and girls of even ten
der years from indulging in drug hab-
its. he said that this foul and detest-
able habit threatens to annihilate the
vitality of the young manhood Of the
American nation. And in his stirring
denunciation Of 1t, he instanced num-
erous cases picturing the terrible
drug conditions unearthed by individ.
ual members of his OWE police force
sleigh ride parties" of youthful co.
caine and heroine victims.