Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-27

not willing. my friends to so along like
the others and want to cut across lots.
go ahead. Pile up your gold and your
silver until you get pile as big as
Manhattan. When you die you can't
lake Il with you. If YOU got it in an
unfair way it would all melt anyway.
How arc some other fellows living in
this world. Well, they are living for
lust. I went TO a town out in Iowa
one time to preach. The preacher out
there said to me: Mr.. Sunday most
of our young men are impure"
said; We'll, God pity your girls:
1t is only a question of time until they
are dragged down to the same level OF
bestiality with tho young men,
And ! don't believe that any girl that
ever lived was ever impure that some
| brute of man didn't take the initia-
tive.
Last year there were 10000 girls
ruined in this country. according TO the
most careful statistics-5,00O every
month. 1871 every day, a young life
blighted every eight minutes in this
land Of the free and in this home OF
the brave. And as Herbert Kaufman
said, every man knows what it means
when a woman goes wrong, and every
man knows the ultimate cost of her
sin to her, and every man knows her
helplessness. That's true-we all do,
And if you are old enough to wreck
a life, then you are old enough to recog-
nfze the dreful consequences which
come to the life that you wrecked, and
il is damnable to force motherhood upon
a girl without being man enough to
assume fatherhood. Some of them
wear the badge OF responsibility. they
hold their heads high in decent society,
but the stain is on you, and you can't
wipe it from your conscience.
You said you loved her. On. YOU
Lied! The man whe loves reverences
protection, and he doesn't degrade. IL
is estimated that there are 100000 cases
in New York alone. shrinking into
shadows. of the painted ghosts of won-
en- who were, and they are hungering
and longing for happiness.
Oh. she was reckless. perhaps, on
account Of her age and inexperience and
il was too late when knowledge came
to her And there are always lot
Of sponsors of harlotrY who propagat e
their species. my friends, among the I'M
suspecting girlhood Of our land.
Three men went out one summer night,
No care had they or aim.
They dined and drank, Ere we go
home"
They said. We'll have a little game. D"
Three girls began that summer night,
A life Of endless shame,
And went through drink. disease and
death,
As swift as rising flame.
Lawless. homeless, foul, they died.
Rich, love, praise the men,
But when they all have met with God,
And Justice speaks. what then!
What then! What then! Go ahead!
Don't listen to me! But remember
there is day of judgment coming when
God Almighty will right the wrongs
of this old world.
If you could put an indicator on
some fellows that would tell where
they'd been and what they'd done, there
wouldn't be a decent girl that would
speak TO them when they'd come TO
see them.
And there are some old married men
that rip around, too! / tell you about
the lowest down. God forsaken, good
for-nothing, ubiquitous, rapacious, in
famous, black-livered degenerate this
side of hell is a man, sir, that stands
at the marriage altar and promises to
love, cherish and obey" the woman
he marries and then goes out and creeps
into the arms of infamy and propa-
gates his species OF llcenJlouSneSS, tnen
goes home and creeps into bed and pill
lows himself blythe side of good, low
ing. sweet, pure wife who has MAIN
tanned her virgin purity for the man she
swore to cherish as long as the skies
were blue and the waters clear.
I tell you, sir. whatever is wrong for
a woman to do is wrong for man to do
and one of the crying needs of America
today is the single standard, my friends.
among manhood and womanhood
Can man engage in telling or hear
ing a smutty story or a smutty joke and
be manly. If he can, then woman can
do the same thing A fallen man is as
truly an adulterer as fallen woman is
an adulteress.
l wouldn't wipe my feet, 1 wouldn't
spit, I wouldn't blow my nose on that
society that makes a distinction between
a man when he does wrong and woman
when she does wrong, and there is no
difference to God whether the one that
sins wears a plug hat or hair pins, a
coat or a petticoat
Nobody leaps out and tells the people
what will come to them If they defy