The Butte daily bulletin., 1920-02-20

the scarlet Letter.: they must go |
70 the eating houses, rooming houses
and like places, or starve and freeze. |
And, it is doubtful if working
girl or woman should visit one OF
our club rooms clad in pure robes
Of virtue and clothes wholly within
her means and questionable, she
would receive about as warm well
come as though she was fashionably
adorned, although She wore the
Scarlet Letter.
Have we by our daily lives, b.
,l1r fashions md customs. done mucl
to imbue a spirit Of modesty in oul
daughters, or have taught them by
3ur example to become immodest
)y wearing clothes fashioned for the 4
lemimonde, clothes that invite I;
loser Inspection Of our lilnbs 'an6 "
,ur bosoln5- nlothes OF such style
hat any school boy can draw ever.
3etaiI'of every outline Of our bodies =
Have we taught them by example
~ the way we teach our boys ant
iris to dress within Their earning
power, and place virtue and homo
above fine clothes, position or class
distinction? Does the unkempt gir.
| child receive the same care as tho
| veil dressed? Is she looked upo1
| With charity and pity, and enconr
4ged and lifted up, or is she merely
| olerated. snuhbed and avoided il
hurch and III school? As she be
| zones older, Goes she enjoy attend
ng our churches and Sunday
schools, or are they taught to i'm
ggine that daily life and treatment
If those in the more loWl,r walks
life does not conform to any of the
doctrines taught in our cnurches
md is not her whole experience il
Ter efforts 20 obtain the happiness
he sees others enjoy, make her /
later of the whole fabric of society
is laws and edicts, its customs anC
manners, its churches, schools am.
:lubs, and invite her to shady place
,eset with vice? Can the ilnpres
ions of childhood and young WON
1nhood be erased With a police club.
AS to Glendive and Forsyth no.
olerating those lewd females, it We
appears that they tolerate lewd me,
who come here to dcoauch them
elves. DO YOU not know that such
nen usually go away from home tt
arouse, and maybe our leWd mel
20 to those places for the same pur,
poses and you think those conditions
ire due TO what you call 1.-The Won
ans campaign Of vice" ! think 20,
lamed X rightly as q campaign o
ice if it was carried to the eNten
hat no woman of bad repute wouls
! al n orc off fbn ~ / n
,ven if She might be sick and suffer
ns from hunger with no place t
10 down except upon the bleal
)ra;rie in order to protect thei
Hell bred sons.
Yes, it surely must have been ;
campaign Of vice, unWarranted b.
any law or any sense Of justice an>
nprompted by any womanly in
;tinct or Christian spirit. But, sis
ers. we will some day stand un
,lothed before the same loving mas
er along witt, the saint and the har
OF. when the picture OF our lives W
Sill wish covered With the cloak 0
charity. is shown to us.
HOW wildly that came to M
once while standing With one or Nv
gbo "conde5Hnded" to attend th
burial service given Il fallen CIR
None Of the We,l-to-tlo sisters of th
, own would come with d pityin
/ glance or tear, for fear of befoulin
5 their skirts and their skirts wer
longer than now and likely NOR
easily sulied.
Can we not adopt some plan ire
from unscltish motives whereby w
as.
, erm them, without endangering th
precarious social structure upo
, which we stand, and which may i
! | measure be somewhat responsible
for the conditions existing in Mile
City and elsewhere?
And say, sister, the next time yo
see young boys headed for the fol
biddea grounds, tell their mother
and sisters that they may sham
them and show them that their cor
duct will not be tolerated in tn
home; teach them a higher life an
: place before them nurer ideals; le
their people know the truth tht
= they may be letter able to guar
: them.
G DO not withhold their names q
I you do the young business man frol
e lforsythe.
e Sisters, when we meet again I'll
= questions will burn in your hear
y and look out of your eyes and enc
n1ay try to hide from the other wht
~ IS uppermost in her mind bl
do not blame our officers for &c
:. ing in accordance with the best di
. ates Of manhood; ask them not il
:, :, flict useless punishment upon al
= iemale-a thing that the meanes
:. NANCY coyote OF wolf would not d
> 10 a female OF it's kind