The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-01-27
SOFT LIVING BECE1S Lki1';iEEsssNEESSSS, ki';
Why 'the City that Care Forgot Finds Cleanup Cam
paign Necessary-Powerful Appeal to Decent Men
and Women of New Orleans by Patriotic Preacher
Loose Standards TO Blame for Present Conditions.

business men-right to the looseness
chargeable to well nigh all of US!
1t isn't fair to separate the tive
and talk about the laWlessness of our
city. Let US face the raw reality
the looseness and the laWlessness chat
go together, and constitute our joint
iniquity.
We men and women Of the city's
fatherhood and motherhood, of its
churches and schools and universities,
we ourselves have grown too soft; we
don't care enough, we seek the easy
way; yes, we indulge ourselves too
much. Let me ask: What force of
conviction or consistency can we op-
pose to lawless and public gambling
while loose and private gambling is
so general amongst uss What self
denial shall we bid the poor man
make, for closed saloon, or grocery,
on Sunday, if our own self-indul-
gence goes the limit of luxury and
pleasure every day?
Sternest problem of all-how are
we to conquer or control the social
evil, while the women who set the
social standards amongst us, our la
dies, mothers and daughters, are max
ing outrageously too much of sex, to
the obscuring and belittling of the
countless other ties of Fellowship be-
tween the man and woman
Let us who want an end of law
Iessness look to the looseness of cur
own standards! Let us tauten the
lax fibers of our moral earnestness
let us care more vitality for clean mail
hood and modest Womanhood; let US
quit even an innocent aping of a
fashionable sensuality
AS far as our city's sworn officials
are required to suppress the lawless-
ness that gives a blighting notoriety
to New Orleans, there are whole
classes of our citizens who have no
right to leave them unsupported in
their heroic task. The parents of our
growing boys and girls. what a stake
they have in strengthening the hands
we've set to guard the innocence and
inexperience of our youth
Our university men and women,
presidents and professors, to whom
the welfaIe Of hundreds of young mep
and women has been inextricably con-
fded-how the responsibility lies on
them to help secure their students q
decent city to abide IN
Our churches, their clergy and la
ity praying every Sabbath, Lead Us
mot into .sxap ion sEiTer Us from
evil il'-What unanimity Of forceful
act should go with their fervent
prayer to help remove temptation and
secure deliverance from evil, for the
weak and ignorant and erring all
about them!
In thatenass meeting to be held iaa
the Hippodrome Tuesday evening,
there ought to be present, in convince
ing multitude, the fatherhood and
motherhood of our city, it's church
men and school men and university
men. They should be there to sup
port and strengthen our appointed Of
ficers in the enforcement of our liber-
al and reasonable laws. They should
be there to hold our common purpose
true to sane and feasible balance Of
law and liberty.
They should be there, best of all,
to commit themselves to a self-mas-
terry, a clean morality, will for
righteousness, so definite and true
that no looseness of theirs shall ever
be again the underlying cause Of
lawlessness in this splendid city of
theirs.