Year: 1873

have been made what they are by the
/ lecturer or his brother men.


Not long ago, noticed that in our
Board of Health a motion was made to


remove from the City Hospital all


women with venereal diseases to the


social evil hospital. Thanks be to a
kind providence, there was member of
I that Board who is one of the ablest sur
geons and physicians of our country, DIR.
| +. II. Gregory, Catholic and n genu-
| inc Christian gentleman. He at once


interposed and said, ado not do this;


some of these women NAV be respecta-
BILE and may have become diseased by
] their rascally husbands" This stopped
the matter, and a committee was ap-
/ pointed to investigate and report upon
| it. The result Of that report was that


nearly all were decent married women


who had been diseased by their rascally
husbands, who perhaps, il such punish
ment were justiiiable in any case, should
be burnt at the stake for the enormity
I of such q crime. At n SUBSEQUENT meet
| ing of our Board of Health this noble


man, DIR. Gregory, pushed the matter


further, and told them plainly that "the
] disease and money both came from the


men," He put the responsibility where


it rightly belonged.


/ Now | hold that there never was
bad woman until bad man made her
so, that women by nature are modest
and pure, and if they cease to be so,
| they are made what they become by
bad men. / am further convinced that


no great reform i'm behalf Of fallen
women can come until their good sisters


who have preserved virtue shall have


power TO go to them and help them out
of their degradation without losing
caste by so doing.


How many men are there in the land


who come pure to the bridal bed And
yet it would damn a poor girl forever To
be even suspected. We must equaliZe


these two standards of morality, one for
Man and another for Woman, and must


make the man suffer the condemnation
that now befalls woman for the same


mistake.


But before closing this letter | want
to say that the Bible teaches us that if
there be any crime or sin which God
Furnishes more than another, il is pros
titution. No man or woman who leads
such life can hope for happiness here
or hereafter; no such man can be happy


in his family. He must detest and


lOathe his own nature himself. that he
can thus abuse his family relation. The


Bible teaches us that every nation


which has given itself over to prostitu-
ton has been destroyed. Gods eternal


wrath is against all who thus brutalize
themselves and defile the bodies He has
given them. | believe that it was for
this reason that He has so punished
Paris, the hot bed Of social evil practices.
For many, many long years, Paris has
stood advertised as the great brOthel
~ faE of 1nf,
Paris has stood advertised as the great
Babylon of modern times. She has
stood advertised as the city Of the world
where morality was at its lowest ebb,
where unprincipied, licentious men
could 90 and spend their lives i'm adul-
teries. 1t was but Just that this city
should be smitten by God for her
crimes. She has stoned and killed
Gods prophets and their blood will rise
up in Judgment yet against her whore
dOms, and will consume her as Gods
wrath consumed Sodom and Gomorrah.


Would to God that the Wiommi's Jour
nal and every moral press in the land
would cry out upon this subject until
the social evil is swept from the land.


1t is just getting a foOthold. Destroy it
ere it fastens itself upon us as it has
fastened on Paris. The people from the
rural districts are with you. Some cit
les like ST. Louis may not be with you.
/ But with such noble men as DIR. Eliot


and DIR. Gregory and the hosts of good


and true men who must soon rally to


their aid, we can sweep this damnable
stigma off our city and make ber stand


redeemed and regenerated from these
misguided municipal authorities who


have put this degradation upon her.
a CITIZEN or ST. IOTIS