Connecticut western news., 1915-07-15
Letters From the People
Chambers of Wantonness, Cabarets,
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etc.
 To the Editor of The News:
 "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof '' So said Paul, the man whom men have been the most ready to quote as an authority on what woman should and should not do. He l also has something to say to men.
 We are not going to deliver a sermon, though we have begun this article with a quotation from the bible. We want ] to say few words on the cabaret fea- ture of our Chambers of Commerce. From what we hear, and se9 and know it would seem as ii the cabaret ought to be, condemned as a moral evil. l Is it necessity? Is it conducive to higher ideals of morality in the young men of our time? Do they add to the dignity and moral responsibility of the old and middle. aged men? These are searching questions. We hear a great deal about the need and necessity of pleasure and relaxation for the tired business man. Very good, but we also | have tired business women, matrons and mothers tired out and somewhat discouraged with #the business of mak- ing good clean moral homes and trying very hard to do, with no definite q. - cisive tools to work with, like the vote, l for instance. to stem the overwhelming I tide of moral looseness so prevalent in the civic and soclal world, and indiffer- ence of too many men to the things o. 1 good report that make for decency and 1 righteousness, and 1t seems at times as 1 ii 1t were no longer any use whatever l for the hand that rocks the cradle to try | to keep on doing what it never yet has done-rule the world. This is one of the sentimental lies that Adam proba- bly, handed out to Eve. and men have continued to hand it down from gener; = tion to generation of cradle rockers. | If the good woman who rocks the cradi e really rules the world, she fad better begin to show better results. The cab aret man n-hugger should be abolished. If the tired business man needs hugging and kissing and having his hair tousled. l let his wife or his sWee heart, grand mother, mother or daughter do these things for him. If they are as dear to him as he pretends, he should not want the hugs and caresses of hired strange woman. Do mems mothers and wives and staid old grandmothers hire a strange, more or less naked young man, to come to their feasts and permit the gross familiarities that supposedly re- putable husbands and fathers permit these decidedly doubtful characters s called cabaret girls to lavish on them How many decent men would like to see such a spectacle or would like any one of their own women folk to become cabaret girl It is blatantly foolish and waste of breath for any sane and sober man to try to smoothe over or much worse seek TO uphold the imbecile performances of these brazen huSsies Street walkers are arrested for lascivi- ous carriage or lewd conduct, yet the same authorities for law and decency and order, will hire one of these csb- aret creatures-who may not, in every case, be wholly disreputable, but who cretainly in every case, is neither nice nor modest in her conduct-to do things
 
 stant arrest for disorderly conduct Is the tired business mans pleasure to be found only in the disorderly conduct of a woman who initiates, at least, the ways of harlotry? Is it pleasurable for him to witness the degradation of any one of the sex he professes to honor. chivalrously protect, and respect Somewhere else, St. Paul speaks of the sort of man that lead captive silly women, laden with sins, led away with diverts lusts. ' The men who find pleasure and recreation in the silly, not to say indecent, antics of these painted catives for divers lusts, must have a tendency toward imbecility or are of the sort St. Paul describes, thus: "Men of corrupt minds, lovers of their own selves, having the form of godliness but denying the power thereof; lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God. and their folly should be manifest unto all men.
 MT. Editor, this article, to quote St. Paul again, is "Sound in speech that cannot be condemned, ,'.and we trust it will not be refused publication. It is but fair to say in conclusion, that really fine men have, all unwillingly, been entrapped as it were, where they will not be again. The sort of men who want the sort of thing St. Paul so fearlessly condemns are the sort that should not be allowed by decent men, to turn Chambers of Commerce into Chambers of Wantonness. B. H.
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