Show ow A WICKED AND CORRUPT generation air arr advertisement waa was Inzer inserted ted in a chicago paper a couple of weeks ago by a prominent physician who wanted an office girl the doctors office thereupon was literally besieged by applicants L ladies dieb of various ages many of them well weli educated were anxious to obtain the position and a large number of them had been separated from their husbands the physician remarked to a reporter I 1 you dont know how many women there aro are in this town who are separated from their husbands husband the number Is very considerable and it would aa astonish most people if they knew how many there are who either cannot live with their respective ti ve life partners for divers rEason neason ss or who find from a little experience in wedlock that they prefer single 11 now how remember this is in the monogamous nog amous and nna christian city of chicago if 11 li II I 1 had been in mon dom so called the whole country would have been called upon to look at the natural fruits of plural marriage the game unhappy condition exists in other cities whose pious inhabitants hold public meetings to take forcible measures against marriage relations rela reia tlona tiona in utah which the women chiefly interested have not the leaah destro desiro to dissolve why in the world do not them thebe purblind philanthropists biase straining their eyes to look at fancied evils in utah and wa wading hing them in the waters of common sense benech turn their gaze gazo upon the social errors and cor eruptions which honeycomb their own communities another story of chicago life 1 which is attracting the attention 0 of f thep thop the tha p ess ess esa is pertinent to this question A wretched wretched girl was recently convicted of shooting and killing a man with whom bhe ahe had hud cohabited and was a brute deserving a woree fate sato than that which berel betel him she wab was sentenced to a yearb yearns imprisonment ladies ladles interested themselves in her erse and devised means for her redemption from the life which she had lead one wealthy lady offering her hen hern hera a home homa where she would be treated as a daughter on her release from froin jail jall for a time the tha girl seemed inclined to accept these kind of diere diers and to be earnestly bent on leading lending a now life but after awhile her principal benefactor found out that her thoughts were wandering clr off la other directions ta forts and this she attributed atri buted to the infamous solicitations soli citations which the unhappy girl was incessantly receiving during her imprisonment from more or less lesi prominent prominent romi nent men could the public eaid eald lady jady to a reporter know of the offers of ovil evil which the girl gin has received and of the tho visits of mn to her in the county J jail all ail who discouraged and j jeered at everi overy purpose of reform the good people of ef this city would understand her conduct as I 1 do sy mrs black the lady referred to says that bome some of these men are ate considered vron worthy thy of the respect of tile the public that they are in fa eners of families and profesa profess to be ba christians bear bean in mind that this Is in chicago and that these thebe brutes brates who lust after the fallen and beautiful homicide are christians very likely among the pious mob who in the anti polygamy meetings during the progress of the Fi edmunds munds bill in and howled for the destruction of thelmor thermon ther the cormons mormons Mor mons because the tho latter married wives and did not follow the chicago method of treating susceptible cep tible tibie women the indianapolis review has the suba olied paragraph ahle which h tells telis the tale in a few words why isit is it almost impossible for a depraved wor woman rilan to reform the army of profligate men give her no chance at every step upwards she bhe is met mot by importunate Impert temptation every avenue of escape escapa is blocked by mans mams sinful if the woman to is poor and friendless these wolves bold out money moncy and spurious tenderness toward her they do not always comb como from the degraded ranks either elther but often from the bosom of the tho I 1 best society jf if they were tho the kind hind of people ane world cuts their influence would not be so powerful but they are vell wll dressed fine fino mannered wolves with full pockets and rend cruel hearts whatever victims they can clutch in their me merci relles les ies claws nover ne never ver again agair escapes another exchange commenting on thia this roc recent ent exhibition of tho the vilo vile character of reputedly respectable men says says we wish we could believe the evil confined to chicago but unfortunately we cannot there are libertines in every large city who would sacrifice the happiness of another without a qualm to their base desires thia this is 13 not an evil with which the law can cope what is wanted is 13 the force of a purified public opinion yea and that la Is what will not very likey lively be bc obtained just at present this is an evil and adulterous generation and out the sect of that name of old in cant and smug faced hyp hypocrisy ocil while extreme meas that are in themselves destructive of the I 1 very principles upon which our national institutions and personal onal liberties are founded are urged by the clergy and the press against a system which if left alone would lay jay the ax as at the root of the tree of social corruption society all around the preacher Band legislators la satur batur aed wed with licentious ness nebs and only covered over with a thin veneer of polished make be lieve A purified public opinion will not obtain until the lord shall shail shake mightily the nations and the earth as aa with the besom of destruction tion |