The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-27

gono<rhea- Eight hundred thousa nc
young men reach sexual rraturit,
each wear Five hundred Thousand
OF them. II is alleged. have plunged
into immortality and four hundred
Thousand OF them have had venera
diseases
In com paring gonorrhea with sy.
rhnis. gonorrhea in Its results--ii
plays npon the bladder and Kidneys
probably kills more men annually
than does syphilis syphilis makes a
single attack in the lifetime OF an In
dividuaL while conorrhea is capable
of indefinite recurrence in the same
person, Like syphilis. gonorrhea has
sexual effects and can be transmitted
on down to your poSterity,
? x n as1~t-ed sfNt, Are EiSA vseae ~, ~
s>,rcs-ss etrt ~ IN r,t FtstviT
tistics are mighty hard 10 get hut I
am giving the most accurate obtain
able. There arc many. manv that
are kept on the side that are NOT
ci-ssed as public prostitutes. That's
the price they pay for eating good
foods and wearing better clothes than
they could wear II they stood true.
Now. Ioo.oo Of these 500. 900
public prostitutes die annually with
diseases peculiar To their business.
In this country we do not licenec
prostitution. The average life of n
girl In life OF shame Is Eve years.
The average life OF a girl in coun-
tries where they license II is seven
years, in this country Ave. One hun
dred thousand OF them die annually
with diseases peculiar to N ~ bust
ness The diseases peculiar - their
business are aonorrhea and syphilis
and other diseases that are caused by
them.
Startling FArtx
Now. how many men do you sup
pose these 100000 serve In the
course of year. That viii, give you
an idea Of the veneral disease in the
land, because nearly all OF them have
one or both OF the diseases. A ply
~ician's certificate on the walls OF the
home Of a prostitute. my friends. say
ing that she is free is bunk All
bunk While that may be true when
the physician examined her. within
half an hour after his examination
and the time when the certificate was
put on the wall, some fellow might
have come along and consorted with
that girl and transmitted to her the
virus of those diseases.
Some fellow comes along and con-
sorts with her. He goes out. my
friends. with disease So the certifi-
cate. so far as protection OF the man
It's written on. although at the time
OF the examination it might have been
true. But you can see how in fif
teen minutes it might have been all
off
So as we study and try and find
out the conditions ri they are in the
land. the study OF vcnereal diseases
shows that one-eighth of all human
disease is caused through venereai
diseases
Sixty per cent. 1t Is alleged OF the
! inmates of asYiums. are there from
venereal diseases. not that they all
have been through any fault OF their
own. but because they have con-
tracted them through previous gen.
erations II Ia history, and the brain
of a chimpanxee would be imposing
! by the side of one Of those micro
syphilis idots. my friends So. there
fore. II men and women won't listen
to God, il they are bound TO fins
themselves into all sorts of condi-
tons and damnable sin. 20 ahead
God won't stop you. but the human
race, 80 far as you are concerned. will
soon run out, and when You are
through. God Almighty will hold
every man responsible for the way he
has lived.
Eighty per cent OF the children
horn with syphilis go blind in few
days. Eighty per cent of the womer
who die from disease In the repro
ductive organs have been afflicted
per cent Of the diseases in the alb
dominal cavity of women is due Il
gonorrhea. Syphilis rs one of tn.
most common diseases of those tina
die prematurfy. It Is the common
cause of locomotor ataxia- II Is thu
cause of one-third OF all the tuber
fculosis in the country
Doctors Statement
Gonorrhea lis predominant fac
IS per cent OF the marriages which
! result in no child bearing are due I,
the effect Of venereal diseases tina
are not due to anything the man o.
woman themselves did, but to the act
of their ancestors, and the disease
are carried in the blood TO the hear
and the lungs and the kidney.
The heart when II comes in contac
with sonorrhea causes tNe germs I,
travel back and they find a favorit
place for growth in the lining Of tn
absolutely beyond hope. He dies o
gonorrhea of the heart And gonorr
hea germs will enter the kidneys. an,
when they do. then the patient Is be
yond hope. They act like bichIorid
of mercury.
You can take bichloride OF mercur.
and you will be just as active, yol
can hear and talk, and you can wall
and breathe and reason, but in from
ten TO twenty days you will be para
lived in the kidneys and you will die
Bichlordie of mercury doesn't afrec
any organ Of your body but your kid
neys. and If you have taken enough
TO act on your kidneys, II is absolute
ly sure death.
And so gonorrhea acts on the kid
neys like bichloride OF mercury. Ant
no person ever affected by gonorrhcs
has ever been sure that he vouldn'
be taken at any time.
It il a social evil too--not alone (
moral question. But II Is also a ques
ton OF the preservation of civiliza
ton. And when I stand here and
speak to you men l am not simpl,
talking from the moral standpoint
valuable as II Is, I am talking from
the standpoint OF civilization.
Abraham Lincoln SAID no nation
could exist half slave and half free
We can't exist half drunk and hall
sober, half pure and half impure
and am preaching for civilization as
J uaN or r,ora2s .vheu nav that