White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-23

Nh
walk blindfoldsd into the pit and
drag the race after thems
How serious are these infections
which are thus reaching the greater
part OF the race Let these facts an
sWer:
Syphilis Is said to be responsible
for 50 per cent Of loeomOtor ataxia.
for a large Der cent Of stilI-boTn
children and Of premature deaths in
children. for ~apopIexy. paralysis and
sudden death. long after the disease
is supposed 70 have been eliminated.
IL is said 10 shorten life on the aver
age OF one-third. Il is highly infec-
tious and may be communicated b.
contact. b. Use Of a common towel.
Of a public drinking cup. or OF any
article which has been touched By
an infected person. Even now. and
Notwithstanding what is claimed for
the specific sos" physicians are not
agreed that the effect Of the poison.
once in the blood, can be entirely
eradicated.
Gonorrhea. b many young men
regarded as a joke, is recognized By
the modern physician as even more
dangerous than the sister curse. i
is the principal cause of race sui
eide b. inducing sterility-a condi-
ton which does not necessarily
mean impotence. Ii is responsible
for 20 10 30 per cent of infantile
blindness. and for 20 TO SIS per cent,
according TO different authorities. OF
abdominal and pelvic operations on
women. Its germ may be carried
dormant By the man for many years
after apparent eure, ana then be
transferred 10 an innocent wife, TO be-
come malignant in her and neces-
state ovarian operations and perhaps
a life OF unhappiness. The father.
using a common bathtub with his
son, has been infected and becomes
permanently blind.
These are q few only OF the counts
against the yenereal twin sisters
Just enough 10 convince every man
and woman o. the duty TO look
thoroughly into the matter. And he
or she. who after consideration Of
the subject Is too delicate for the
fullest discussion. deserves and
should receive the hell on earth
which the Yenereal scourges can
create; but neither he nor she should
be permitted TO encourage Others 10
walk unwarned into that hell,
Remedial measures cannot be in
diligently discussed unless some
thing is understood Of the causes
which are responsible for the
present widespread character of the
cause and for its steadily increasing
ravages.
Prostitution. Of course, is the prin-
cipal means BY which the poison is
spread.
There is. first. general ignorance
OF the danger. What man who has
fully advised himself of the facts will
lightly run the risk of infection with
the possible penalties enumerated
above, or Expose a wife, or son or
daughter? The ignorance IN the
subject Is colossal, and that condi-
ton is due to the sentiment of pru-
derry which makes this subject ia
booed. even in the family circle.
There is a belief. more or less gen.
eral, that physiological conditions in
man differ from those in woman, and
that the difference justifies in
diligence on his part. That is not
true in the case of a normal IA
who has not infamed his system by
alcohol, or aphrodisiacs. Biology
says that man was originally poly
gamous and that he still shows
Traces, in the individual, of his pre-
historic tendency. But that tendency