Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-27
RFp0nT on 10 c0NNIssION.

so startling IS the revelation maze
in the report Of Governor Phillips Lee
Coldsborough's Vice Commission that
il staggered those who never dreamed
Of The iniquitles that the report depicts
That Anne Arundel county. as we'll
as Baltimore city has hand in this
vice. strike home. and makes ue hang
cur head In shame and sorrow. We do
believe however. that The vice I'm this
county ie an overflow from Baltimore
city anI that Tie dens Of vice ard cor
ruptiou ia Anne Arundc. are located in
those parts of the county adjacent to
Baltimore city
What most startling is that this S.
not individual depravity. the sin Of one
or two or a dozen men and women, but
hundreds. among whom are included
doctors. nurses "cyeu minister's" poll
ticians, men of high rank and station.
and that these an have had the pro-
.cction of the police and the political
losses. That vice is commercialized,
hat dens Of Iniquity may exist and do
exist under the very eyes of those who
could cause them TO be closed bu, that
money buys privilege for their crime
anmolested. is what staeeers. is what
tppalls
Traffic in human souls is what is
~oing on all about us. says the report
of this vice commission The slaught-
r Of the mnocents is more horrible
Aan in the days OF Herod. Children
Who have come into the world through
sin and shame are cast or, and men
and women who traffic in these inno-
mnocents are paid for their care and
keep Wanting the almighty dollar
rather than The care of the innocent
babe. the infants die through neglect
and the report says:
THE dead infants are buried in
lares hole which serves to ac-
commodate from rs to 100 AS the
children die they are placed in the
hole and covered with few shov-
elsfuls OF earth. When the hole is
full of bodies another hole is dug
alongside OF It, and the bodies of
infants that have been buried there
for years are taken ont and the
bones thrown away TO make room
for new burials, In a small plot
ground it is estimated that 5000
infants have been buried"
Now wha. is Baltimore and the State
going to do about it? Is the publica-
ton of this unspeakable crime to rest
with its publicity? Can money buy the
Powers That BE" and shut the whole
thing up Tho immoral conditions to-
day of this city, or any other city, this
state or the entire nation lie at the
door of the home Let the American
home be pure and sacredlet the Amer
lean mother be the ideal woman, like
Mary and Martha. who kSelt at Jesus
feet. and not the fly-away. have-a-go
time. short-skirt. low-ncck woman that
the average mother of today is, and We
won't have these conditions.
Let the American father be a clean
man, of dnuuestionable morals. man
who is a companion OF his son. as the
American mother should he of her
daughter. and there viii be less crime
and vice such as that conveyed in the
report of Observation-Disclosures vice
commission in its startling exposure.
Upon the mother and father of this
country lies the burden. and it is for
them to apply the remedy The boys
aud girls of today are the men and wo-
men of tomorrow. If they are raised
Gt Cody homes. and are trained to have
clean hands-and pure heart" to fear
God, love Him and keep His COM
mandments.w shall have better moral
civic conditions.
Man may make laws. but man can
not change the heart of a human crea-
ture prone to sin and wiokedness as
the sparks fly upward. Give us clean
theatres. clean moving pictures. clean
literature, clean national. state and
city officials. clean Sabbaths, but of
all things. give us God-fearirg parents
and civic morals viii take care of itself
But when a voting people will so TO
the polls and cast their ballot for
men whose morals they know to be
putrid. to fiji a position in national
in the gift of the people.
what can you expect of the metropolis
of the State except that commercializ-
ed vice reign supreme and is condoned
by the body polite.